Stroke treatment trebles death rate

Stroke victims helped by music

There’s new hope for victims of stroke this week. Researchers have found that listening to music can improve their seeing abilities.

Air pollution control reduces death rate

Irish researchers have found that measures to control air pollution have dramatically reduced the death rate from respiratory and cardiovascular disea...

Death rate plunge: not from screening

Health officials who have been congratulating their extensive mammogram screening programmes as the reason for the sudden drop in breast cancer deaths...

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.

Death by aspirin

Aspirin may be a major killer, and one that none of us even suspects

Death or disability?

It's not just aspirin which has come under fire recently. Other standard treatments such as thrombolysis are also being questioned after trials revea...