General Medical News

The ability of English councils to consider their finances when assessing people for social care is being challenged at the Supreme Court.

Andrew Lansley has David Cameron's "full support", despite a Downing Street source reportedly saying the health secretary "should be taken out and shot".

Almost 1,000 private patients with PIP breast implants have contacted the NHS, according to MPs.

Relatives of a woman who blame her death on a 41-minute wait for a paramedic, hand over a petition urging a dedicated ambulance service for their town.

Babies weaned on pureed food tend to end up fatter than infants whose first tastes are finger food, researchers believe.

Acute lung injury patients on ventilators who require a feeding tube have a similar number of ventilator-free hospital days and similar mortality rates if they receive a low-calorie feeding program initially followed by a full-calorie program compared to a full-calorie program right away. These results are part of a new clinical study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.

The General Medical Council launches guidelines on assisted suicide to help it decide if doctors should face a disciplinary panel on the issue.

Always There: the Remarkable Life of Ruth Lillian Kirschstein, M.D., a new biography released Feb. 6, tells the rare story of a woman who was as comfortable conversing with lawmakers on Capitol Hill as she was bringing science to children in inner-city classrooms.

The National Institutes of Health has created a new website, NIH Clinical Research Trials and You to help people learn more about clinical trials, why they matter, and how to participate.

An 83-year-old woman is fitted with a jaw made by a 3D printer in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind.

The NHS in England spends £59,000 a day on translating documents and providing interpreters, according to a health think tank.

A woman gives birth on the pavement outside a Fife hospital after she was unable to get inside the building.

Katie Piper told Radio 5 live about being able to see after she was blinded in one eye after an acid attack.

Why refuse an implant that would improve hearing?

Dr Michael Dixon, chair of the NHS Alliance, who supports the governments proposed reforms of the NHS and Dr John Lister, director of the Health Emergency campaign group, who opposes them, debate the Health Bill.

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says there are "undoubted dangers" in re-drafting shared parenting law

A number of children under 10 are treated in hospitals in Northern Ireland for eating disorders, the Department of Health says.

A campaign to stop people smoking in cars when carrying children - and which could pave the way for a ban - is launched by the Welsh government.

The risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes, a study of 400,000 pregnancies in England suggests.

A new television advertising campaign in England is warning against the temptations of "just one more" drink.