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National News
The NHS said last night that it was continuing to treat people at a hospital unit in spite of an infestation of flies that settle on patients, staff, appliances and spilt blood.
The government will this week come under renewed pressure to set a firm date for ending the individual worker's right to opt out of the maximum average 48-hour week stipulated by EU law.
Doctors involved in childbirth are calling for an open discussion about the ethics of euthanasia for the sickest of newborn babies. The option to end the suffering of a severely damaged newborn baby - who might have been aborted if the parents had known earlier the extent of its disabilities and potential suffering - should be discussed, says the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in its evidence to an inquiry by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which examines ethical issues raised by new developments.
Microsoft is to introduce a sophisticated protection system aimed at preventing online fraud. The company is urging rival companies to adopt a similar technique.
Report condemns government failure and waste in critical social and infrastructure projects
Following a recent health scare, I want to improve my diet. Would switching to organic food, either partly or totally, improve my health, or is it all just another supermarket con?
Administrators are intercepting GPs' referrals and turning patients away in a bid to save money
Cancer patients who cannot get the modern drugs they need on the NHS are ordering them directly from international 'internet pharmacies', often without their doctors' knowledge.
Violent and abusive patients in one of the busiest NHS accident and emergency departments are to be given on-the-spot £80 fines in an extension of the government's policy of showing zero tolerance to antisocial behaviour.
Drastic action is being considered in the battle to get more men to step forward and save the nation
Women have been subjected to 300 sexual assaults in mixed-sex mental health wards during the past three years. New data obtained from mental health trusts has shown the true extent of the problem has been grossly underestimated.
Two hundred thousand visitors to Britain a year will be required to undergo tuberculosis tests in a significant expansion to a controversial screening programme.
It is illegal in this country. But that does not stop growing numbers of British women contacting websites to generate thousands of pounds with their ovaries.
The Government's antisocial behaviour tsar thinks that 'chaotic individuals' who flout Asbos should be put into special accommodation with 8pm curfews until they mend their ways.
Children as young as five can be identified as tomorrow's future criminals, depressives and drop-outs, says research produced for the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit.
Shops that sell cigarettes to children are to be banned from selling any tobacco products, under a stringent new law designed to crack down on under-age smoking. The Government is also to raise the age that cigarettes can be bought from 16 to 18.
THOUSANDS of children are risking their lives sniffing glue and aerosols in a new epidemic of solvent abuse in schools.
Frying chips has recently been the focus of a cancer scare, but now scientists say they have discovered a simple way to cut any risk dramatically
Secret plans to stockpile millions of body bags to be used in the event of a flu pandemic, terrorist attack or other disaster are being considered by the Government and health experts, according to a senior minister.
It's the calorific equivalent of downing four and a half pints of lager, gorging on five chocolate bars or scoffing 13 digestive biscuits in one sitting.
It is not as high-profile as TB, Aids or malaria but tetanus kills 250,000 a year in developing countries - many of them new mothers and babies. Victoria Lambert reports on a Unicef initiative and explains how British mothers can help
Sir Digby Jones has broken his silence over troubled NHS software group iSoft, arguing he did everything an independent director could do to check its accounting was accurate.
I am 35 with two children. I used to suffer indigestion and heartburn, but i had an operation four years ago to stop acid rising.
The best of treatments must be the friendly reassurance that, whatever the symptoms, they will pass and there is no need to take pills or potions to relieve them. Or, as wise old Hippocrates put it, "to do nothing is also a good remedy".
Hospitals have lost nearly £6 million since a controversial Government scheme to cut carbon emissions was introduced.
The spread of a dangerous new superbug through hospitals is being hugely underestimated by the Government's reporting scheme, NHS staff have admitted.
A quarter of a million diabetics could be freed from the trauma of daily insulin injections thanks to an artificial pancreas.
Couples are being offered a free cycle of IVF treatment worth £3,000 if the man donates a sperm sample.
It is something that many of us have long suspected - hangovers really do get worse as you get older. Scientists have shown that teenagers have a greater resistance to alcohol.
Men are having to fight 'titanic battles' for access to tried and tested treatments for prostate cancer, a charity chief said today.
Yobs who cause trouble on an A&E ward will get on-the-spot £80 fines in a new initiative to tackle anti-social behaviour in hospitals.
Moves to improve the quality of meals in English secondary schools have resulted in fewer pupils taking them this term, a BBC News survey suggests.
Children in the UK with type 1 diabetes are being recruited to test an artificial pancreas.
One in three people in the UK does not know the difference between common painkillers such as aspirin, ibuprofen and paracetamol, a survey suggests.
A machine has been invented to encourage children to work out while they are playing computer games.
UK doctors working for charities overseas are being removed from the lists of approved practitioners in the UK in their absence.
Sportswomen are more prone to injuries at certain times during their menstrual cycle, a study paper suggests.
A maternity unit in Bridlington is to close as an NHS trust attempts to claw back £7m of overspending.
Lawyers for four of six men who almost died after medical trials went wrong have crictised the US research company for awarding its boss £920,000.
Drunken patients who abuse staff at a Greater Manchester hospital face on-the-spot fines in a bid to crackdown on yobs on its casualty ward.
A charity for men with prostate cancer says many face a "titanic" struggle to be prescribed an approved drug.
International News
It is not as high-profile as TB, Aids or malaria but tetanus kills 250,000 a year in developing countries - many of them new mothers and babies. Victoria Lambert reports on a Unicef initiative and explains how British mothers can help
A hairdryer-like device can rid children of head lice by exterminating the eggs and lice, work shows.
Poor people who live in rich neighbourhoods in the US are more likely to die than those who live in disadvantaged areas, a study says.
Cheshire and Merseyside News
A 90-YEAR-OLD man who cared for his sick wife hanged himself after telling his daughter he was feeling "very distressed".
A FORMER Birkenhead High pupil has become the new chairwoman of the Royal Liverpool hospital.
A PATIENT described as 'Miss Miracle' by doctors is giving something back to those who helped her through a life-threatening illness.
A MASSIVE development on surplus land at the Countess of Chester Health Park has received a lukewarm response from the local community.
HELEN Bellairs could have retired from the NHS but she likes a challenge ... and boy has she got one!
TORY parliamentary candidate Paul Offer says Labour's privatisation of parts of the NHS could threaten the future of the accident and emergency department at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
A SUPPORT group for local MRSA sufferers is holding a public meeting in Carlisle between 1pm and 3pm today.
HEALTH chiefs are set to use the findings from the Lancashire Telegraph's Turn It Off Campaign as part of a staff fire training programme.
Greater Manchester News
A CANNABIS "drought" in Manchester has led to a drop in mental health patients being admitted to hospital, says a senior health worker.
PATIENTS who abuse staff at a Greater Manchester hospital will become the first in the country to face an £80 fine in a crackdown on anti-social behaviour.
Nurse was held against wall by his throat - The Bolton News 03/11/06
A GRANDMOTHER has won her battle for a vital lung cancer drug after protests sparked over a `postcode lottery'.
A £7.1 million health centre is to be built in Walkden.
Start closing in on the ton of e-books catalogued. Easiest way to look at them is with the quick clicks in Liberty. Not perhaps the best way to spend your wedding anniversary but I get a perverse sense of achievement out of it. Poor Monst is still hobbled by bad knee. We fetch a variety of store catalogues for her to plan her Chrimbo assault on the shops, but other than that do very little.
