Homocysteine: the saga of a medical breakthrough - What causes heart disease We ve asked the question a few times in recent bulletins and we ve had several responses back Answers have ranged from...

Doctor Error: One-third of hospital doctors make ‘major mistake’ every year - A third of all hospital doctors make at least one major mistake – which may harm the patient or even result in his death – every year, a new study has...

Hospital infections: It’s up to the patient to tell the doctor to wash his hands, says health chief - Hospital doctors in the UK so rarely wash their hands while on their rounds that patients are being encouraged to have their own hand-gel ready by the...

Bully Boys: Doctors continue to push homeopathy out of the NHS - A small but vociferous group of doctors and scientists seems determined to remove homeopathy from the National Health Service.

Adverse events in hospital are common - As much as 10 per cent of patients entering hospital will experience preventable "adverse events", according to a study of two UK hospitals. ...

All the nhs gives me is a bloody nose - I could hardly believe your comment that you 'regard Britain’s universal free medical care with a kind of inspired awe' (WDDTY vol 13 no 3). There is...

Fetal monitoring doesn't benefit baby or mum - Neither healthy women in labour nor their babies derive any benefit from electronic fetal monitor (EFM) on admission to hospital. ...

Hospital errors: - Not many dead - What's the difference between 840 and 40,000? An awful lot of liability insurance payments. New research into errors in UK hospitals has put the ann...