Doctor Errors: Even the patient can’t spot them - Doctors have become so hopeless at spotting – and reporting – their own errors that they are asking their victims, the patients, to do it for them.

Heart risks: is another urban myth toppled? - We can all recite the common the causes of a heart attack smoking diabetes and raised blood pressure and cholesterol to name most of them and ye...

More newborns die in america - Deaths of newborns in the US has been 10 per cent higher than Norway and other Scandinavian countries for 1986 and 1987, the most recent data availabl...

Steroids pose threat to newborn health - Early treatment with the corticosteroid dexamethasone, even at moderate doses, doesn't help prevent chronic lung disease or mortality in extremely low...

Caesarean: It triples the death rate in newborns - Babies born by Caesarean section are three times more likely to die soon afterwards than those born naturally, a new study has discovered.

Doctor Errors: Sometimes they don’t know their right hand from their left - Do you know your right hand from your left? Of course you do – but a surprisingly large number of doctors don’t. This can be a problem if you’re amp...

Double exam for newborns wastes medical resources - The standard practice in maternity units of examining a newborn baby twice is a waste of resources and should be stopped. One examination is sufficien...

Doctor Errors: The 8 things that must never happen to you in hospital - There are eight things that must never, ever happen to you while you’re in hospital. If they do, health insurers say they will no longer pay out.