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According to research carried out by the BBC, increasing numbers of people in the UK are using an injectable, unlicensed hormone which causes the skin to tan. The drug, known as Melanotan, has not been cleared for public use but is provided il...

A ground-breaking deal has been struck between the drugs industry and the government which could save the NHS up to £550m a year. At the heart of the deal is a flexible pricing scheme which will mean new drugs can be initially introduced at a...

Nurses leaders have called for safer needles to be introduced after a poll revealed that many nurses have been accidentally pricked by needles during the course of their work. The Royal College of Nursing believes that the introduction of shie...

A leading expert says Clostridium difficile infection is a greater contributory factor to deaths in Scottish hospitals than currently recorded. Professor of bacteriology Hugh Pennington said that C.diff should appear on a death certificate mor...

The UK Organ Donation Taskforce has said the assumption that organs can be used for donation unless people opt-out showed "little evidence" that it would increase donor rates. A £4.5 million government campaign was launched by the ...

Health data company Dr Foster has gone live with a website which provides an "alternative" to NHS Choices. Dr Foster Intelligence were given the first 18-month contract for NHS Choices, but were not successful in their effort to gain...

The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, The London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green and St Bartholomew's (Barts) in the City have had their computer networks infected by a virus. All three hospitals have had to turn off their IT systems for &...

Researchers in London have found a molecule which could lead to new ways of treating motor neurone disease (MND). The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study was carried out by scientists from University College London and King's...

Research has suggested that traditional treatments for irritable bowel syndrome could prove to be effective for patients. A review of existing studies in the British Medical Journal showed that "fibre, anti-spasmodic drugs and peppermint ...

Australia's doctors have launched a stinging attack on the country's public hospitals, saying they are responsible for 1,500 unnecessary deaths a year. A report by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) said the public hospitals, which are f...

Information about the sorts of keywords people might enter into Google if they are coming down with influenza are being compiled in the United States to give a picture of outbreaks before they are reported through traditional means. Many peopl...

A bone transplant given to a man at a Berlin hospital two years ago appears to have cured him of both HIV and leukaemia, doctors said. The bone marrow given to the patient, a US national living in Germany, was of a type that had a genetic resi...

Researchers say that electrocardiagram tests carried out on patients with chest pain have little value in predicting future heart disease. They say that doctors should spend more time questioning patients about their symptoms and examining the...

Ministers have warned NHS organisations that they will be allowed to spend only £400m of a forecast surplus over the next financial year of £1.7bn. They have also been told that they will not get the full increase in resources pledged to the...

Researchers say that people who carry extra weight around their middle face a dramatically increased risk of early death. The risk applies even if a person’s weight is normal, according to the study published in the New England Journal of Me...

Art might seem an unusual sort of aid to send to China’s earthquake-stricken Sichuan province, but one US-based organisation believes it's essential. "Art is cathartic," Ashfaq Ishaq, founder and executive director of the Washington-b...

After a three-year study, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that inequalities within countries are "killing people on a grand scale." "(The) toxic combination of bad policies, economics, and politics is, in large measu...

A former student activist who set up a civil organisation in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi to spread awareness of HIV/AIDS has described how the ruling Chinese Communist Party destroyed a grassroots group that tried to address the burge...

The Office for National Statistics has published information which reveals that people who live in the South West of England and Wales have a greater chance of living to 75 than people in other parts of the country. The new statistics were com...

The results of two separate studies, examined in The Economist, reveal that the choices made by smokers generate serious and complex questions. Smoking and genetics It has been proved that smoking can cause lung cancer. A question which is ...

An article in The Times explores how the National Institute for Clinical Excellence approves medicines for use in the NHS. NICE assesses medication by calculating the amount the health service has to pay out in order to "achieve a defined...

As the NHS approaches its 60th anniversary, the latest 21st century technology is dramatically changing traditional working practices. In some areas, the advances have been so dramatic that they have a sci-fi feel to them. Robots, digital i...

Taking vitamin tablets is more popular than ever before. The Telegraph examines whether taking supplements could actually be harmful to health. In Britain, over 40% of the population take a vitamin supplement every day. We spent around £360mi...

China has pledged to maintain tough family planning policies that limit most of the country’s families to just one child, in a bid to keep its burgeoning population under control. Pregnant women who fall foul of the system and civil rights a...

Dr Thomas Stuttaford writes about Parkinson's disease and its early symptoms in The Times. The European Brain Council (EBC) has this week been examining how Parkinson's disease affects patients and their relatives, in addition to its effect on...

Antidepressants such as Prozac and Paxil – among the most widely prescribed drugs on earth – are at the centre of a new controversy. One recent report warned they do not help people much while another suggested they are a cheap way to save...

The Spanish system of organ donation has attracted worldwide attention for its success and considerate approach. Spain has triple the UK rate of organ donors. It has 35 organ donors in every million, whereas the UK has 12.9 per million.Doctors...

The Chinese have used a traditional approach to medication for thousands of years. But until very recently western science has been reluctant to acknowledge that traditional Chinese medicine – or TCM – may have something to offer in the fo...

Insulin treatment, exercise and a low-carbohydrate diet have for many years been regarded as the practical way to treat type 2 diabetes. From the days that American researcher Elliot Joslin first advocated this in the 1960s, other studies have...

Roger Matthews, Chief Dental Officer at Denplan, writes in The Telegraph in response to a Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) survey which estimated 4.7 million people in the UK choose private dental care. The CAB survey has been well publicised, but...

David Peat, chief executive of East Lancashire PCT and visiting fellow at Manchester Business School, warns that the NHS is facing lean times. None of us are immune from the credit crunch, and that goes for health services. The rise in ener...

Liberal Democrat shadow secretary of state for health, Norman Lamb, argues that obesity should be tackled at local level. While I welcome the fresh thinking from the government to tackle obesity, my fear is that dictating strategy from the cen...

Scotland should address its health service and education system to combat the high numbers of young people who are unemployed, writes Sandy Watson in the Health Service Journal. Around 35,000 young people live in Scotland who are unemployed o...

Helen Bevan, director of service transformation at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, considers the role of finance leaders in the Health Service Journal. In my career as an NHS improvement leader I interact with different types...

Michael White, writing in the Health Service Journal, explores the issue reported in the media concerning GPs being given money to prevent hospital referrals. Reports in The Sunday Telegraph and The Times have shown that GPs are being paid - ...

New Scientist poses the question: How will we afford future cancer drugs? New cancer drugs have dramatically increased survival times but treatment costs have soared. Costing thousands of dollars a year, they have consequently become a &quo...

Michael White, assistant editor (politics) of The Guardian on pharmaceutical price regulation. Amid issues such as the global financial collapse, the debate about the pharmaceutical price regulation scheme in the House of Lords may have been n...

The journal Pulse argues that GPs are not the villains in the referrals crisis. GPs are being accused in the national media of allowing money to influence their clinical decisions. It is a notion that is against GMC rules and is also against t...

The Economist examines the placebo effect. Doctors have prescribed placebos for centuries, though often without telling patients the pills contain nothing proven to cure their ailment. Some consider this a virtuous lie, others that it is un...

The chief executive of the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, Angela Greatley, examines the implications of the Mental Health Act. The Mental Health Act 2007, implemented on November 3, will present major challenges for the NHS. It extends...

Lisa Rodrigues, chief executive of Sussex Partnership foundation trust on the financial crisis and a healthier lifestyle. The global financial crisis is as yet only having a peripheral effect on Sussex Partnership foundation trust. Some cos...

Leslie Riddoch writes in The Guardian about why Glasgow's health problems should eclipse its status as the latest tourist hotspot.In the Lonely Planet guide to the top 10 cities in the world, Glasgow makes the list. Investment from Dubai is going t...

David Allen from Manchester University says let the patient shape the NHS. It is time politicians stopped telling the public what sort of health service they should receive. The NHS costs £110bn a year to run, some £2,000 for every person...

Genetic breakthroughs and a global campaign are energising efforts to eradicate one of the world’s gravest diseases. The world finally seems to be getting serious about its attempts to eliminate malaria. A number of businesses, charities, ce...

Virginia Beardshaw, chief executive of the children's communication charity I CAN and a member of the Bercow advisory group, discusses children’s speech and language services. Within the NHS, children’s speech and language has always had a...