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Over the counter painkillers like acetaminophen (paracetamol), aspirin, and ibuprofen can lead to increased hearing loss risk, according to a recent US study.The researchers found that the risk was mainly in men younger than 50 who took more than...

Drinking coffee at lunchtime cuts people's risk of diabetes, according to a recent Brazilian study.The result was the same for caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee, taken with or without sugar.However, people who drank coffee at any other time of day...

A study by nutrition scientists has found that eggs are one of the top nutrient-containing foods and has recommended that they are eaten on a daily basis.The research, which is due to be published in the journal Nutrition and Food Science under the...

The drink Lucozade is to be given a warning label after a study found that chemicals used to colour it were linked to hyperactivity in children.Lucozade, which is made by GlaxoSmithKline, will come with the message 'Sunset Yellow may have an advers...

A poll of 900 nurses has shown that two thirds said they knew of patients who were treated in cupboards and storage areas because hospital wards were fully occupied.The Nursing Times survey asked nurses to complete a questionnaire online. The nurse...

A BBC investigation has found that 60% of inspected hospitals in England who underwent spot-checks by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) were miscalculating their own performance. According to a Panorama programme, the troubled Stafford Hospita...

Women who drink once in a while may have an easier time staying slim than women who do not drink at all, according to a recent US study.Women who drank red wine gained the least weight overall, and some of the women who did not drink went on to be...

The Crossroads Care and the Princess Royal Trust for Carers have said the government has spent funding earmarked for carers on other parts of the health service. The two charities said the government was not fulfilling its promise to spend £5...

The charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) has said that increasing the tax on tobacco by 5% would cause a significant decrease in the number of people who smoke in the UK. According to a report by the charity, millions of pounds would als...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced proposals to “strike off� underperforming health service managers. He indicated it would be a way of dealing with failures such as the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust scandal. Mr Brown said M...

The government has announced plans to give patients more choice when deciding which general practice to register with. Health secretary Andy Burnham has unveiled a consultation process on new plans which should allow people to have more say on...

People who have problems sticking to their weight-loss regime may benefit from having their genes tested, according to a recent US study.The researchers have found a way of looking a people's genes that seems to determine what kind of diet would bene...

Paediatric heart surgery has been suspended at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after four recent deaths. Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, has now launched an investigation with its internal inquiry being mon...

Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has made a dramatic move into the UK general practice sector. Virgin Healthcare Holdings has acquired a majority shareholding in Assura Medical Limited which provides services in partnership with GPs. These i...

In the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the rate of birth defects is now 13 times higher than in Europe.In the minds of Iraqis, there is no doubt that the US military is directly responsible.A few years ago, US troops used weapons banned by the UN on the cit...

Personnel from a medical research lab in China's southwestern Sichuan province have been detained, authorities said, following clashes between police and angry parents demanding to know if their children had been infected by re-used needles durin...

Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang have executed two people for their role in a tainted baby milk scandal which killed at least six children and sickened hundreds of thousands. The announcement came as groups of supporter...

Amid a global slowdown in new HIV infections, sex workers and gay men in East Asia are increasingly vulnerable to the virus, in a region where access to treatment is still below the world average. Six million households will be forced into pov...

Around 20 people petitioning major state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm in Beijing for compensation after they became infected with HIV/AIDS have vowed to renew their appeal, following clashes with police in which three people were injure...

The Background A controversial Bill which would have given terminally ill patients the right to end their lives was blocked by the Lords on the 12 May after an impassioned seven-hour debate. Peers voted by 148 to 100, a majority of 48, to dela...

It is a condition that is destined to have a huge global impact in the coming decades. And with an ageing population, the number of sufferers from Alzheimer’s could quadruple over the next 40 years. More than 26 million people worldwide a...

The 12 week consultation on the Department of Health’s proposed Code of Practice for Promoting NHS services has just closed.  What is it proposing, and what has been the initial reaction to the Code? Why the need for a Code of Practice ...

Colour is a good way to differentiate tablets and their containers because it enables more immediate recognition than do words printed on labels or embossed onto tablets. Moreover, patients with poor vision or those not wearing their reading ...

Residents of one of the poorest regions of central China have staged repeated demonstrations outside a zinc smelting plant near their homes after their children were diagnosed with lead poisoning. Villagers in Fengxiang county, in the north-ce...

Residents of Mandalay say that patients needing transfusions at a main public hospital in the Burmese cultural capital are routinely asked for money for donated blood. "You have to pay money at the hospital," a member of the Aung Pin...

More than 1,300 children have been poisoned by lead from a year-old manganese factory in China’s central Hunan province, official media said, on the heels of another lead-poisoning scandal in nearby Shaanxi province. The mass lead contaminat...

BBC On-line has launched a new weekly insight into the local and national issues affecting a busy GP practice in Wandsworth, South West London. Drs Jones, Andrews, Coffey, Sangha and Duckenfield will be documenting their views in a r...

Experts have warned of the possibly harmful effects of the swine flu virus on pregnant women and their babies.A woman aged 39 who was infected with the virus died after she gave birth and her baby is in intensive care.The BBC asked Maureen Baker, H...

HONG KONG—China's Huai River basin—an intricate network of rivers, lakes, and fishing villages—has been the subject of poetry and music for generations, stimulating the popular imagination with scenes of rural peace and plenty by its rippling...

Authorities in the northwestern Cambodian province of Pailin are investigating six doctors over the death of a pregnant woman in their care, sparking renewed concerns about how the country's health care system treats the poor. Van Yoeub, 37, d...

The BBC has published a timeline which explains the changes a woman and her baby will undergo during pregnancy.Weeks 1-9 In Britain, a woman's pregnancy is determined from the day of her last menstrual period. This means that for up to three weeks ...

Dr Tony Waterston, consultant paediatrician and chair of the Advocacy Committee, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, says reducing global warming has crucial health benefits. Climate change is high on the agenda at present, but litt...

David Pruce, Policy Director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, says pharmacists need better support to meet the increasing challenges they face. A growing number of pharmacists are becoming frustrated that their skills are under-used. Th...

SA Mathieson, editor of SmartHealthcare.com which provides news and analysis of health and social care ICT, raises concerns over plans to cut health service computing. While billions of pounds could be saved in government IT by cancelling proj...

Writing in The Telegraph, Alexander Chancellor suggests the ‘real elderly’ are still treated as an afterthought. Saga Magazine has published its election manifesto with the warning “woe betide any party that ignores� older people. I...

Writing in the New Statesman Jonn Elledge, editor of Education Investor, warns that Tory health plans would leave the poorest worst off. A Conservative government, we are told, will increase spending on the NHS. It has accused Labour of man...

Dr Helen Allen and Professor Pam Smith from the Centre for Research in Nursing and Midwifery Education at the University of Surrey asks if degrees mean nurses will not ‘dirty’ their hands. Our study 'How student nurses' supernumerary statu...

Writing in The Independent, Clint Witchalls looks at a new parenting book. In Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Think About Raising Our Children is Wrong, authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman make some controversial points. Smacking can be ...

Dr Alex Yellowlees, Medical Director of the Priory Hospital in Glasgow and a Consultant Psychiatrist, warns that our obsession with size zero celebrities might be fuelling the problem of eating disorders in young women. The ideal body shape ha...

Andrew Mitchell, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, argues that aid does not just save lives: it’s good for us too. When Bill Gates decided to spend his fortune, his top priority was measurable investments in public hea...

Rebecca Wood, Chief executive of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, argues that only lack of funds is holding back UK researchers from finding a cure for Alzheimer’s. There are a range of items associated with increasing or decreasing Alzheimer...

Writing in The Times, Ross Clark argues that we need to grow GM food. Britain is a country that should have been leading the way with GM food production. Some 14 years ago, we were at the forefront of it but allowed the campaigns against â€...

Jonathan Waxman, Professor of Oncology at Imperial College London, says Britain should stop making life difficult for drug companies. More people are surviving conditions such as tuberculosis and other ailments once considered deadly because o...

Anne Axford, associate director of learning and development at Portsmouth PCT, writes in the Health Service Journal about why stamping out dyslexia would be a mistake. Famous dyslexic Sir Richard Branson has said about his condition: "Dys...

Dr Anthea Martin, Senior Medical Adviser with Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland warns doctors against dismissing all web-wise patients as 'cyberchondriacs'. A new study has indicated that GPs feel intimidated by web-wise patients ar...