A four-year-old left so dehydrated after heart surgery he sucked liquid from wet wipes died on a ‘shambolic’ hospital ward where staff ‘missed opportunities’ to help care for him, a coroner said today.
A medical mainstay since 1816, they are being elbowed out of the way by new technologies such as ultrasound which has only been about since the 1950s.
Pensioners with cancer are being written off as too old to treat, campaigners said yesterday.
THE US Food and Drug Administration says it is conducting a major new study into the safety of caramel colouring in soft drinks and other foods.
THURSDAY, Jan. 23, 2014 (HealthDay News) Women who start hormone replacement therapy after having had hip or knee replacement surgery may cut their risk of needing another procedure in the same joint by nearly 40 percent, a new study suggests.
A surge in cases of the deadly new strain of bird flu has been reported in China at the beginning of 2014.
The owner of a British food shop in Canada says he has been ordered to stop selling Marmite, Ovaltine and Irn Bru because they contain illegal additives.
Research featuring scientists from Cardiff University into genetic mutations of those with schizophrenia has shed new light on the disorder.
More than half of frontline NHS staff in England have now been vaccinated against influenza, according to latest figures.
Scientists have discovered the worlds oldest cancer, which has survived continuously being transferred from host to host since appearing in a single dog 11,000 years ago.
