Patient Care
Scary Intestinal Bug on the Rise in Hospitals
The virulent intestinal bacteria chlostridium difficile, also known as C-diff, is on the rise at hospitals and nursing homes, a likely result of antibiotic overuse.
Minnesota Hospital Removes Healthy Kidney from Cancer Patient
Surgeons at Minnesota’s Methodist Hospital erroneously removed a cancer patient’s only healthy kidney, leaving the cancerous one in place.
Surgeon Accused of Causing Death to Hasten Transplant
A California surgeon is facing charges that he deliberately hastened the death of a patient in order to harvest the man’s organs.
Four Organ Transplant Recipients get HIV and Hep C from Donor
Four Chicago-area organ transplant recipients discovered that their donor had given them more than they bargained for when they all tested positive for HIV and Hepatitis C.
Brain Surgery in a Day?
The world’s youngest female brain surgeon has developed a method which allows patients to have surgery in one day.
San Francisco First City to Roll out Universal Health Care
San Francisco is ready to begin its city-wide effort to provide health care to all.
Marshals Capture Kidney Transplant Fugitive in Mexico
A Kentucky man who was released from jail to donate a kidney to his dying son skipped out before going under the knife. U.S. Marshals captured Byron Perkins in Mexico Wednesday, a year after he left his son on dialysis.
Doctors Operate on Infant Born With His Heart Outside His Chest
Surgeons performed successful corrective surgery Wednesday on a baby who was born with an extremely rare birth defect that causes the heart to grow outside of the body.
Chinese Doctors Report Successful Penis Transplant
The first penis transplant ever reported in a medical journal was performed by Chinese doctors on a man who had lost his own in an accident. But two weeks later the penis had to be removed even though there was no sign of rejection.
French Woman with New Face Speaks to Reporters
The French woman who received the world’s first partial face transplant told reporters Sunday that she now has complete feeling in the new tissue five months after the operation.
Ameriplan(R) Discount Health Programs
An alternative to the gloomy forecast of putting healthcare on the back burner is Ameriplan(R). They have been serving the public’s needs since 1992 and have over one million members.
Health Care Solution
Healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions. Health care embraces all the goods and services.
NHS Patients to Get Free Healthcare Throughout Eu
European Union governments voted today to let patients choose cross-border heathcare
Improving Technology Facilitates Patient Care
New information sharing technologies are making it possible for both community hospital and private practice physicians to easily and accurately access patient information in order to improve the quality of patient care.
Medical Tourism: Understanding the Risks
While costs of many elective surgeries and medical procedures continues to rise in the US, many people considering going under the knife are looking abroad for cost cutting options. This blossoming industry, known as Medical Tourism, must be approached with even greater caution than surgery in the United States.
Health Care Solutions from Outside the Political Arena
While health care reform is currently a hot-button political topic, some companies are already taking steps to reduce the cost burden to Medicare and improve patient care.
Health Care Solutions
The Patient relation Management Solution was designed for bariatric and metabolic surgical practices. Whether your bariatric program is small, medium or large, PRM provides a comprehensive approach to tracking the patient flow from the initial contact to surgery and post follow-up care.
You Can Still Swim After Breast Surgery
After undergoing breast surgery, swimming and taking a vacation can be both therapeutic and rejuvenating. There are specific swimwear products designed for women who have had breast surgery. Swimming after breast surgery will make you fit, make you more relaxed, and make you feel good.
Complex Medication Doses Prompt Increase In Safety Measures
New health care programs are helping to reduce the number of errors that occur in prescribing medication for complex conditions.
Comprehensive Exams
Comprehensive exams are done to ensure that the patient is in good health.
Learning from the Past
The article looks back to 1994 when the cost of anxiety disorders to the US economy was $65 billion. Because public health care is underfunded, treatments have focused on oral medications as the cheap solution rather than expensive behavioural therapy which has a better chance of a cure.
Insiders Guide to Finding the Best Plastic Surgeon
Cosmetic & plastic surgeons are talented breed of people. Finding the right board certified plastic surgeon means the world.
Lipitor Ad Lands Pfizer in Hot Water
A few problems have surfaced with how well-known American scientist Robert Jarvik endorsed blockbuster anti-cholesterol drug
Surgeon in the US accused of hastening organ donor's death
A surgeon in the US, Dr Hootan Roozrokh, has been accused of artificially hastening a patient's death in order to retrieve the organs.
Surgeon Accused of Hastening Death to Harvest Organs
Transplant surgeon from San Francisco faces charges of accelerating patient's death to harvest his organs
French Doctors on Trial for Cjd Deaths After Hormone 'misuse'
Manslaughter charges over brain disease scandal· Trial hears of delays and sloppiness in late 1980s
Two Britons Held in Delhi Over Illegal Kidney Transplant Racket
The passports of two Britons alleged to have traveled to India to buy kidneys in an organ transplant racket have been confiscated by police in the Indian capital, investigators confirmed yesterday
Insurer's U-turn Too Late to Save Life of Transplant Teenager
Lawyer wants company to be charged with murder· Death inflames debate over US health care system
Transplant Woman Tells of Her Life With a New Face
The French woman who underwent the world's first partial face transplant has learned to eat and speak but has yet to manage her biggest challenge: a kiss.
First World Results on a Third World Budget
According to Michael Moore's latest film Sicko, Cuba's medical care puts America's to shame. Rory Carroll investigates.
Mistake 1: Being a Jack of All Trades
If you want to become more successful in your practice, this article will give you the first clue: specialize. Not only will you become more experienced in what you do, your clients will be able to recommend you better. And word-of-mouth is the most effective way to build your practice.
Zenith of Negligence
A Senior Citizens care centre in Santa Ana, California - in their eagerness to make a quick buck - lost sight of their primary purpose. A 90-year old man, suffering from Alzheimer's, was found dead in his room, because a rat had crawled into his mouth and died there.
Minister Given Liver Transplant
South Africa's minister of health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, has had a liver transplant after being diagnosed as suffering from auto-immune hepatitis.
Help with Medicaid for Medical Treatments
If you have a medical need and you don't have the means to take care of it then Medicaid might be able to help.
At 80, She's Alive with Hope
BEVERLY O shouldn't be alive. The mother of four and former teacher-administrator was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma -- cancer of the kidney...
Stolen Bone Transplant Patients May Sue
At least two British patients who recently discovered they had been given transplants of potentially contaminated pieces of bone from stolen US corpses are considering legal action, their solicitors said yesterday.
Man Rejects First Penis Transplant
Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse.
Is A SoyChlor Plant Killing Animals, People, And Children In Jefferson Iowa?
A SoyChlor plant in Jefferson, Iowa is alleged to damage property, kill plant and animal life, and make people and even children sick with hydrochloric acid.
A Rude Awakening
Take a closer look at how film portrayals of comatose patients are idealistically fabricated and actually cause more trauma to families dealing with real-life victims.
Legalise Organ Sales, Say Us Doctors
People should be allowed to sell their kidneys and other organs for transplantation in order to meet rising demand for donors, according to two US doctors.
Face Transplant Surgeon Plans More Operations
The French surgeon who carried out the world's first face transplant last November said yesterday he had plans for five similar operations even though his first patient came close to rejecting her new nose, lips and chin a month after receiving them.
Governments Cruel Rules Kills More Than Fred West/Ian Huntley
Penalized by the government for making a house into a home. Our health system is what it is today because of The Budget
Do doctors need cross-cultural training?
A recent survey indicates that resident physicians need cross-cultural education and training in order to competently care for a growing diverse population.
US Doctors Prepare for First Human Face Transplant
· Clinic to select patient after getting go-ahead · Critics warn of serious mental and medical risks
195,000 Die Annually From Hospital Mistakes
An average of 195,000 people die needlessly each year from medical mistakes. Here are a few things you can do to avoid becoming one of next year's statistics.
Is Clinical Research Ethical?
Many people question the ethicality of clinical research. Some believe that it is risky and exploitative, and performed by drug companies whose only concern is profitability. Thankfully, it is quite the contrary.
Surgeons Who Promise Beauty Destroy Lives By Lethal Injections
Mexican women desperate for full curvaceous bodies are dying in agony after illegal backstreet operations.
Drug Firm Plays Up Long Flights Fear
Observer investigation reveals covert funding for health pressure groups. On one side of the picture a sleeping woman lies sprawled across her sofa in a dressing gown.
French Surgeons Walk Out - to London
France's ailing health service took a further turn for the worse yesterday when it emerged that up to 3,000 French surgeons will down scalpels and undergo a week's self-imposed exile in London next month in protest at poor pay and working conditions. The surgeons will board Eurostar...
Scientists Ready for Full-face Transplant
US scientists are preparing to perform the world's first full-face transplant. The 24-hour operation involves lifting an entire face from a dead donor - including nose cartilage, nerves and muscles - and transferring them to someone hideously disfigured by burns or other injuries.
Scientists Prepare to Turn Fiction Into Fact With First Full-face Transplant
US scientists are preparing to perform the world's first full-face transplant.
Doctors 'plotted to Kill Man for Organs'
Four Moscow doctors have been arrested for plotting to murder a patient so that they could use his organs for transplantation in an illegal trade which Russians fear is rife but which is seldom brought to court. Two doctors at the Moscow city hospital No 20 and two in the city's...
Baby Given Eight New Organs in Record Transplant
An Italian baby with a life-threatening muscle disease has undergone a medical first - a successful eight-organ transplant, her surgeon said yesterday. Alessia Di Matteo, aged eight months and from Genoa, received the liver, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, pancreas, spleen and...
Dying of Neglect
Sarah Boseley on the struggle to cure sleeping sickness, kala azar and other 'forgotten' diseases. It just seems like an ordinary headache at first, with maybe some joint pains and fever. It's the sort of thing most people would expect to get over pretty quickly.
Healthcare in Countries in Transition
Healthcare legislation in countries in transition, emerging economic, and developing countries should permit - and use economic incentives to encourage - a structural reform of the sector, including its partial privatization.
Suppressed Report Told UK Govt. To Ban Animal Organ Transplants
Anti-vivisection activists in the UK are calling for their government to stop suppressing the publication of a recent review commissioned by its own Health Department, and carried out by independent medical ethics experts, which examines the ethical and legal implications of animal organ transplants, otherwise known as "xenotransplantation".
Doctors reject claims they acted unethically
The surgeons leading the team that separated Ladan and Laleh Bijani yesterday rejected accusations that they acted unethically or unprofessionally in undertaking an operation other specialists had refused to attempt years ago when the risks were smaller.
Death row inmate may jump transplant queue
A death row prisoner in Oregon who has kidney disease could receive a transplant ahead of thousands of other patients because the operation would save the state money.
Pricing policies exposed
The World Health Organisation is to publish a survey of the prices of medicines, exposing the secrecy of the pharmaceutical firms over pricing and revealing the high cost of health to people in developing countries.
Commonsense courage
My friend Sue Ayling is going to die, probably by the end of next year. Her form of breast cancer has been particularly virulent, spreading round the body with a kind of savage glee, like a tyrant's army picking off territory and laying it waste before moving on.
Vets Ponder Ethics of Transplants in Cats
Veterinary surgeons issued guidelines yesterday for kidney transplants in cats - and plunged the pet world into confusion. Around 50 to 1,200 renal transplants are performed on cats and dogs in the US each year. The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons decided that pressure for such...
Mexican family's medical odyssey ends in tragedy
Girl whose transplant campaign captured US public attention dies after basic error at renowned hospital. With the flick of a switch on a hospital life support machine, the life of 17-year-old Jesica Santillan was ended this weekend, just as everyone feared would happen all along.
Hospitals Aren't Shops, and Patients Aren't Customers
In the health service, as in education, internal markets lower standards. Competition is a good thing. It drives the mighty engines of human initiative and makes markets thrive and strive. But not always. In the public sector it can perversely destroy the thing it seeks to improve.
Lott Seen As Scapegoat to Help Party Look Inclusive
Republican senators yesterday anointed a White House protege as their leader in an unprecedented telephone conference call. The election by acclamation of Bill Frist, 50, a wealthy heart transplant surgeon from Tennessee, was seen as a victory for President George Bush in his attempt to...
Cost-price Drugs Plan for Poor Countries
US may block Short's scheme to beat killer diseases. Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap medicines to poor countries while they remain far more expensive for the rich, will be launched today by Clare Short in a bid to cut the vast numbers dying from Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
Dutch Nurse 'killed 13 By Lethal Injection'
A Dutch nurse accused of carrying out a killing spree on patients in her care went on trial yesterday for the murder of 13 people, including four babies. Lucy Isabella Quirina de Berk, 40, allegedly administered lethal injections of morphine or some other drug to at least 13 patients. She...
Quality of life vastly improved for most patients
The prospects for most people who have liver transplants are good. Nine in 10 recipients are alive a year after the operation and five-year survival rates are between 70% and 85%, but there is a big shortage of donors, and ideally the organs should come from people under 50.
Mad, bad and dangerous law
The mental health bill may be a crowd-pleaser, but it will not help as much as well-directed funding. One night, travelling home on the tube with a friend, I caught the eye of an enormous and very angry man.
Health crisis looms as life expectancy soars
Western governments are drastically underestimating how long their citizens are likely to live, an oversight which threatens to put strains on the health, welfare and pensions systems of the developed world far more serious than previously envisaged, scientists warn today.
Surgeons hail world's first womb transplant
The world's first womb transplant has taken place on a 26-year-old woman in Saudi Arabia, it is revealed today, raising the hopes of thousands of childless couples whose only chance of a baby is currently surrogacy.
Hospital dramas
Who said these wise words in the House of Commons? "In this spirit of great caring, dredging up personal cases of misery to try to find the one case that has gone badly in the NHS and overlooking all the reforms and successes that we have had, they have resorted to the lowest form of political...
In with the Good Air, Out with the Bad
Today's Healthy Outlook with Jennifer Foss, R.N. -- Does Indoor Air Pollution Compromise Your Health?
Men: Are You Ready to Take Charge of Your Health?
Today's Healthy Outlook with Jennifer Foss, R.N. Ever wonder why women live longer than men?
An alternative to the gloomy forecast of putting healthcare on the back burner is Ameriplan(R). They have been serving the public’s needs since 1992 and have over one million members.
Health Care Solution
Healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions. Health care embraces all the goods and services.
NHS Patients to Get Free Healthcare Throughout Eu
European Union governments voted today to let patients choose cross-border heathcare
Improving Technology Facilitates Patient Care
New information sharing technologies are making it possible for both community hospital and private practice physicians to easily and accurately access patient information in order to improve the quality of patient care.
Medical Tourism: Understanding the Risks
While costs of many elective surgeries and medical procedures continues to rise in the US, many people considering going under the knife are looking abroad for cost cutting options. This blossoming industry, known as Medical Tourism, must be approached with even greater caution than surgery in the United States.
Health Care Solutions from Outside the Political Arena
While health care reform is currently a hot-button political topic, some companies are already taking steps to reduce the cost burden to Medicare and improve patient care.
Health Care Solutions
The Patient relation Management Solution was designed for bariatric and metabolic surgical practices. Whether your bariatric program is small, medium or large, PRM provides a comprehensive approach to tracking the patient flow from the initial contact to surgery and post follow-up care.
You Can Still Swim After Breast Surgery
After undergoing breast surgery, swimming and taking a vacation can be both therapeutic and rejuvenating. There are specific swimwear products designed for women who have had breast surgery. Swimming after breast surgery will make you fit, make you more relaxed, and make you feel good.
Complex Medication Doses Prompt Increase In Safety Measures
New health care programs are helping to reduce the number of errors that occur in prescribing medication for complex conditions.
Comprehensive Exams
Comprehensive exams are done to ensure that the patient is in good health.
Learning from the Past
The article looks back to 1994 when the cost of anxiety disorders to the US economy was $65 billion. Because public health care is underfunded, treatments have focused on oral medications as the cheap solution rather than expensive behavioural therapy which has a better chance of a cure.
Insiders Guide to Finding the Best Plastic Surgeon
Cosmetic & plastic surgeons are talented breed of people. Finding the right board certified plastic surgeon means the world.
Lipitor Ad Lands Pfizer in Hot Water
A few problems have surfaced with how well-known American scientist Robert Jarvik endorsed blockbuster anti-cholesterol drug
Surgeon in the US accused of hastening organ donor's death
A surgeon in the US, Dr Hootan Roozrokh, has been accused of artificially hastening a patient's death in order to retrieve the organs.
Surgeon Accused of Hastening Death to Harvest Organs
Transplant surgeon from San Francisco faces charges of accelerating patient's death to harvest his organs
French Doctors on Trial for Cjd Deaths After Hormone 'misuse'
Manslaughter charges over brain disease scandal· Trial hears of delays and sloppiness in late 1980s
Two Britons Held in Delhi Over Illegal Kidney Transplant Racket
The passports of two Britons alleged to have traveled to India to buy kidneys in an organ transplant racket have been confiscated by police in the Indian capital, investigators confirmed yesterday
Insurer's U-turn Too Late to Save Life of Transplant Teenager
Lawyer wants company to be charged with murder· Death inflames debate over US health care system
Transplant Woman Tells of Her Life With a New Face
The French woman who underwent the world's first partial face transplant has learned to eat and speak but has yet to manage her biggest challenge: a kiss.
First World Results on a Third World Budget
According to Michael Moore's latest film Sicko, Cuba's medical care puts America's to shame. Rory Carroll investigates.
Mistake 1: Being a Jack of All Trades
If you want to become more successful in your practice, this article will give you the first clue: specialize. Not only will you become more experienced in what you do, your clients will be able to recommend you better. And word-of-mouth is the most effective way to build your practice.
Zenith of Negligence
A Senior Citizens care centre in Santa Ana, California - in their eagerness to make a quick buck - lost sight of their primary purpose. A 90-year old man, suffering from Alzheimer's, was found dead in his room, because a rat had crawled into his mouth and died there.
Minister Given Liver Transplant
South Africa's minister of health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, has had a liver transplant after being diagnosed as suffering from auto-immune hepatitis.
Help with Medicaid for Medical Treatments
If you have a medical need and you don't have the means to take care of it then Medicaid might be able to help.
At 80, She's Alive with Hope
BEVERLY O shouldn't be alive. The mother of four and former teacher-administrator was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma -- cancer of the kidney...
Stolen Bone Transplant Patients May Sue
At least two British patients who recently discovered they had been given transplants of potentially contaminated pieces of bone from stolen US corpses are considering legal action, their solicitors said yesterday.
Man Rejects First Penis Transplant
Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse.
Is A SoyChlor Plant Killing Animals, People, And Children In Jefferson Iowa?
A SoyChlor plant in Jefferson, Iowa is alleged to damage property, kill plant and animal life, and make people and even children sick with hydrochloric acid.
A Rude Awakening
Take a closer look at how film portrayals of comatose patients are idealistically fabricated and actually cause more trauma to families dealing with real-life victims.
Legalise Organ Sales, Say Us Doctors
People should be allowed to sell their kidneys and other organs for transplantation in order to meet rising demand for donors, according to two US doctors.
Face Transplant Surgeon Plans More Operations
The French surgeon who carried out the world's first face transplant last November said yesterday he had plans for five similar operations even though his first patient came close to rejecting her new nose, lips and chin a month after receiving them.
Governments Cruel Rules Kills More Than Fred West/Ian Huntley
Penalized by the government for making a house into a home. Our health system is what it is today because of The Budget
Do doctors need cross-cultural training?
A recent survey indicates that resident physicians need cross-cultural education and training in order to competently care for a growing diverse population.
US Doctors Prepare for First Human Face Transplant
· Clinic to select patient after getting go-ahead · Critics warn of serious mental and medical risks
195,000 Die Annually From Hospital Mistakes
An average of 195,000 people die needlessly each year from medical mistakes. Here are a few things you can do to avoid becoming one of next year's statistics.
Is Clinical Research Ethical?
Many people question the ethicality of clinical research. Some believe that it is risky and exploitative, and performed by drug companies whose only concern is profitability. Thankfully, it is quite the contrary.
Surgeons Who Promise Beauty Destroy Lives By Lethal Injections
Mexican women desperate for full curvaceous bodies are dying in agony after illegal backstreet operations.
Drug Firm Plays Up Long Flights Fear
Observer investigation reveals covert funding for health pressure groups. On one side of the picture a sleeping woman lies sprawled across her sofa in a dressing gown.
French Surgeons Walk Out - to London
France's ailing health service took a further turn for the worse yesterday when it emerged that up to 3,000 French surgeons will down scalpels and undergo a week's self-imposed exile in London next month in protest at poor pay and working conditions. The surgeons will board Eurostar...
Scientists Ready for Full-face Transplant
US scientists are preparing to perform the world's first full-face transplant. The 24-hour operation involves lifting an entire face from a dead donor - including nose cartilage, nerves and muscles - and transferring them to someone hideously disfigured by burns or other injuries.
Scientists Prepare to Turn Fiction Into Fact With First Full-face Transplant
US scientists are preparing to perform the world's first full-face transplant.
Doctors 'plotted to Kill Man for Organs'
Four Moscow doctors have been arrested for plotting to murder a patient so that they could use his organs for transplantation in an illegal trade which Russians fear is rife but which is seldom brought to court. Two doctors at the Moscow city hospital No 20 and two in the city's...
Baby Given Eight New Organs in Record Transplant
An Italian baby with a life-threatening muscle disease has undergone a medical first - a successful eight-organ transplant, her surgeon said yesterday. Alessia Di Matteo, aged eight months and from Genoa, received the liver, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, pancreas, spleen and...
Dying of Neglect
Sarah Boseley on the struggle to cure sleeping sickness, kala azar and other 'forgotten' diseases. It just seems like an ordinary headache at first, with maybe some joint pains and fever. It's the sort of thing most people would expect to get over pretty quickly.
Healthcare in Countries in Transition
Healthcare legislation in countries in transition, emerging economic, and developing countries should permit - and use economic incentives to encourage - a structural reform of the sector, including its partial privatization.
Suppressed Report Told UK Govt. To Ban Animal Organ Transplants
Anti-vivisection activists in the UK are calling for their government to stop suppressing the publication of a recent review commissioned by its own Health Department, and carried out by independent medical ethics experts, which examines the ethical and legal implications of animal organ transplants, otherwise known as "xenotransplantation".
Doctors reject claims they acted unethically
The surgeons leading the team that separated Ladan and Laleh Bijani yesterday rejected accusations that they acted unethically or unprofessionally in undertaking an operation other specialists had refused to attempt years ago when the risks were smaller.
Death row inmate may jump transplant queue
A death row prisoner in Oregon who has kidney disease could receive a transplant ahead of thousands of other patients because the operation would save the state money.
Pricing policies exposed
The World Health Organisation is to publish a survey of the prices of medicines, exposing the secrecy of the pharmaceutical firms over pricing and revealing the high cost of health to people in developing countries.
Commonsense courage
My friend Sue Ayling is going to die, probably by the end of next year. Her form of breast cancer has been particularly virulent, spreading round the body with a kind of savage glee, like a tyrant's army picking off territory and laying it waste before moving on.
Vets Ponder Ethics of Transplants in Cats
Veterinary surgeons issued guidelines yesterday for kidney transplants in cats - and plunged the pet world into confusion. Around 50 to 1,200 renal transplants are performed on cats and dogs in the US each year. The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons decided that pressure for such...
Mexican family's medical odyssey ends in tragedy
Girl whose transplant campaign captured US public attention dies after basic error at renowned hospital. With the flick of a switch on a hospital life support machine, the life of 17-year-old Jesica Santillan was ended this weekend, just as everyone feared would happen all along.
Hospitals Aren't Shops, and Patients Aren't Customers
In the health service, as in education, internal markets lower standards. Competition is a good thing. It drives the mighty engines of human initiative and makes markets thrive and strive. But not always. In the public sector it can perversely destroy the thing it seeks to improve.
Lott Seen As Scapegoat to Help Party Look Inclusive
Republican senators yesterday anointed a White House protege as their leader in an unprecedented telephone conference call. The election by acclamation of Bill Frist, 50, a wealthy heart transplant surgeon from Tennessee, was seen as a victory for President George Bush in his attempt to...
Cost-price Drugs Plan for Poor Countries
US may block Short's scheme to beat killer diseases. Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap medicines to poor countries while they remain far more expensive for the rich, will be launched today by Clare Short in a bid to cut the vast numbers dying from Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
Dutch Nurse 'killed 13 By Lethal Injection'
A Dutch nurse accused of carrying out a killing spree on patients in her care went on trial yesterday for the murder of 13 people, including four babies. Lucy Isabella Quirina de Berk, 40, allegedly administered lethal injections of morphine or some other drug to at least 13 patients. She...
Quality of life vastly improved for most patients
The prospects for most people who have liver transplants are good. Nine in 10 recipients are alive a year after the operation and five-year survival rates are between 70% and 85%, but there is a big shortage of donors, and ideally the organs should come from people under 50.
Mad, bad and dangerous law
The mental health bill may be a crowd-pleaser, but it will not help as much as well-directed funding. One night, travelling home on the tube with a friend, I caught the eye of an enormous and very angry man.
Health crisis looms as life expectancy soars
Western governments are drastically underestimating how long their citizens are likely to live, an oversight which threatens to put strains on the health, welfare and pensions systems of the developed world far more serious than previously envisaged, scientists warn today.
Surgeons hail world's first womb transplant
The world's first womb transplant has taken place on a 26-year-old woman in Saudi Arabia, it is revealed today, raising the hopes of thousands of childless couples whose only chance of a baby is currently surrogacy.
Hospital dramas
Who said these wise words in the House of Commons? "In this spirit of great caring, dredging up personal cases of misery to try to find the one case that has gone badly in the NHS and overlooking all the reforms and successes that we have had, they have resorted to the lowest form of political...
In with the Good Air, Out with the Bad
Today's Healthy Outlook with Jennifer Foss, R.N. -- Does Indoor Air Pollution Compromise Your Health?
Men: Are You Ready to Take Charge of Your Health?
Today's Healthy Outlook with Jennifer Foss, R.N. Ever wonder why women live longer than men?