Heart beat irregularity condition ‘can lead to strokes’
More than a million people in the UK now live with a condition that causes the heart to beat irregularly and can lead to strokes.
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Champagne perks of NHS drug watchdog: Officials rule out use of life-saving drugs due to cost but spend thousands on five-star hotels and shopping sprees
Officials at NICE which has been criticised for restricting life-saving treatments on the grounds of cost racked up £115,000 on taxpayer-funded credit cards in the past two and a half years, including £5,000 on luxury hotels.
Care homes given guidance on giving covert medication to residents
The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotlands revised guidance is designed to address rising use of covert medication in care homes and a lack of clarity about the legal basis for giving it. In 2012, 1.6% of Scotlands 37,411 care home residents were given covert medication, up from 1.1% in 2010.
The families sending relatives to nursing homes in THAILAND: Care is ‘cheaper and often better in Asia’, they say
With the average cost of care in a UK nursing home exceeding £28,000 a year, many families worry about how they will look after their elderly relatives.
How to stay slim forever: You’ve shed the pounds – now you only need a to diet ONE day a week
When Michelle Cohen took a tentative step onto her bathroom scales after the Christmas break, she was shocked. She knew shed eaten and drunk a little too much with friends and family, so she fully expected to have put on a few pounds.
Boy, two, died after his brain tumour went undiagnosed for several weeks despite being seen by doctors in two hospitals
A toddler’s parents could only sit by and watch as he slowly died after doctors failed to spot tumour in his brain until it was too late, an inquest heard.
Thousands of breast cancer sufferers carry ‘survival’ protein
Tens of thousands of women suffering breast cancer could be spared from chemotherapy or radiotherapy after scientists discovered a survival protein which predicts if they will survive from surgery alone.
Insomniac father, 41, died after taking overdose of legal ‘morphine’ he bought online to help him sleep
A father suffering from insomnia who resorted to taking a legal morphine-like drug to help him sleep died after accidentally taking an overdose, an inquest heard.
Brain scientists to work with schools on how to learn
A £6m fund has been launched to make better use of neuroscience in classrooms in England.
Heart attack ‘leaves cellular trace’
Patients who have a heart attack have unique cells floating in their blood, say US researchers.