Cheap NHS sleeping pill could help stroke victims recover more quickly
Zolpidem, better known by the trade name Ambien, is currently prescribed for around 750,000 people in Britain who suffer from insomnia.
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Great grandmother ‘gnawed by rat’ in care home – Health Secretary orders inquiry after seeing shocking photos
HEALTH secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered an inquiry and spoken of his revulsion after being shown pictures of an elderly woman bitten 50 times by a rat in a care home. Mr Hunt announced the probe after Whitehall officials raised the case of bedridden Pamela Hudson, who her family say was gnawed by a rodent […]
Nine in ten cancers caused by lifestyle
Up to nine in ten cancers are caused by environmental and external factors such as smoking, drinking, sun exposure and air pollution, a new scientific study has found. Previous research suggested that random cell mutations played a significant role in the development of tumours, a finding dubbed the ‘bad luck hypothesis.’ But scientists now believe […]
NICE urges doctors to treat dying patients as individuals
End-of-life care in England must be tailored to the needs of dying patients rather than a “tick-box approach”, the health watchdog NICE says.
Actress Phyllida Law describes the burden of caring for a parent with dementia
Ms Law, the mother of Oscar-winner Emma Thompson, looked after her own mother Meg, who lived with the family for 17 years as the degenerative illness progressed.
Parents’ desperate Christmas wish for baby daughter to finally have life-saving heart surgery
The parents of a seven-month-old girl have just one wish for Christmas – that their darling baby gets the heart surgery she desperately needs.
Headmistress jumped from bridge one year after 14-year-old pupils identical suicide
Jane Disbrey, 59, the head of Malet Lambert School, Hull, was tormented by chronic facial pain and chose to mimic the suicide of 14-year-old William Shaw.
Pill that may wash away the cause of Alzheimer’s: Treatment dissolves toxic plaques on the brain that are warning sign of the disease
Scientists say they have taken the first steps towards developing a pill that could one day stop Alzheimers in its tracks.
Care chiefs’ message to Osborne: we fear a wave of Care Homes closing down
Health and social care chiefs are demanding a crisis meeting with George Osborne and Jeremy Hunt to avert what they fear could be a wave of care home closures within months after years of spending cuts.
NHS rationing ‘is denying patients care’ as cash crisis deepens
Patients are being denied mental health care, new hips and knees, and drugs to boost their recovery from illnesses including cancer as the NHS increasingly rations treatments to try to overcome its growing cash crisis.