March 10, 2010 / Healthy Life
Skin transplant surgery could be an effective way of treating the skin disease vitiligo, say US researchers. A team in Detroit transferred healthy skin cells to 32 patients who had areas of the body
March 10, 2010 / Cancer, Healthy Life
Men are more likely than women to enjoy sex in old age, researchers have found. Men can expect nearly five extra years of an active sex life compared with women, according to a review of US data surv
March 10, 2010 / Healthy Life
By Nick Triggle Health reporter, BBC News Hopes of reaching a cross-party deal on funding social care appear to be dead in the water. The three main parties are due to take part in talks hosted by th
March 10, 2010 / Healthy Life
The doctors' union claims that England's medical records database is being pushed through too fast, with details sometimes being uploaded without patients' knowledge. But those behind the new system
March 10, 2010 / Healthy Life
By Clare Murphy Health reporter, BBC News It is peak season for chickenpox - the highly-contagious, blistering virus which for most children is unpleasant and for a very few lethal. A safe and effect
March 10, 2010 / Healthy Life
Police have been asked to investigate whether a damning report into a hospital trust could be a base for a criminal prosecution. Last year, it was revealed there were more than 400 deaths than would
March 10, 2010 / Cancer, Healthy Life
VIEWPOINT Professor Tony Leeds Specialist in obesity management, Central Middlesex Hospital A big increase in obesity threatens to cause health problems for millions of people across the world. In th
March 9, 2010 / Healthy Life
Children with behavioural problems are twice as likely to suffer chronic pain as adults than others, say researchers. Scientists at Aberdeen University, who followed the lives of more than 19,000 chi
March 8, 2010 / Cancer, Healthy Life
By Nick Triggle Health reporter, BBC News Parents, hospitals and private firms are being warned over risky and illegal collections of umbilical cord blood. The Human Tissue Authority said if proper g
March 8, 2010 / Healthy Life
An investigation is under way after a newborn baby was given 10 times the normal dose of a tuberculosis vaccine at Scunthorpe General Hospital. The boy was injected with 0.5mg of the BCG vaccine inst
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