Home births have 'fewer' complications - Dutch study
June 14th 2013 - Women with low risk pregnancies who choose a home birth may have a lower
risk of severe complications than women who plan a hospital birth, researchers
say today.
UK steps up measles battle
June 7th 2013 - British doctors are set to administer more than 200,000 extra doses of
the MMR vaccine as they battle to halt the spreading measles outbreak,
it was revealed today.
Call for global crack-down on tobacco promotion
May 31st 2013 - Health officials today called for worldwide bans on tobacco advertising
and promotion as part of the drive to reduce smoking rates.
Population-wide gene map row
May 24th 2013 - Powerful modern techniques should make it possible to map every individual's
personal genes - and improve medical care, according to one expert.
Men's health a world problem - experts
May 17th 2013 - Global strategies are failing to tackle the problems posed by men's health
and behaviour, it is claimed today.
Peppers could protect
against Parkinson’s
May 10th 2013 - Foods that contain dietary nicotine, including peppers and tomatoes, could
help to protect against Parkinson’s disease, researchers reported last night.
Call for global crack-down on tobacco promotion
May 2013 - Health officials today called for worldwide bans on tobacco advertising
and promotion as part of the drive to reduce smoking rates.
Drugs that prevent cancer
April 2013 - Taking breast cancer drugs has successfully helped protect hundreds of
women from the disease, according to the findings of a major study reported today.
Cancer genes unveiled by the dozen
March 2013 - Dozens of new genetic findings about three major cancers were unveiled
last night, bringing closer systematic testing for the diseases.
Fish oil may protect skin
February 2013 - Fish oil may give protection against skin cancer, British researchers
say.
Ovary
transplant baby born
September 24th 2004 - The first baby has
been born to a woman who underwent an ovary transplant, it was announced
today.
Celebrations and questions over Tamara birth
September 27th 2004 - The birth of a baby
to a woman who had an ovarian transplant has created hope for dozens of
others - despite some scientific scepticism.
Bioterrorism
alert as physicians from Australasia and Thailand meet
May 6th - 8th 2002 - News Special from the
Royal Australasian College of Physicians Brisbane.
Creativity
or mental chaos - debated at international psychiatric conference
July 9th 2001 - The links between psychiatry
and the arts are to be celebrated at a conference which starts in London
today.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has teamed up with the World Psychiatric
Association to stage the event: "2001: A Mind Odyssey".
Cover-ups that led to spread of mad cow disease
October 26th 2000 - The epidemic of so-called
mad cow disease in the United Kingdom probably sprang from a genetic mutation
in an animal in the early 1970s, according to a government report.
Curing bubble babies
June 27th 2000 - Two doctors spoke today
of the remarkable treatments they have devised for two once incurable
blood conditions - and how they hoped they could lead to more cures.
Childbirth and pregnancy - Steering a safe course. October 1998.
Childbirth and pregnancy - Original feature. March 1998
Discussion on the HRT - Cancer controversy - From February 2000.
Medicine & The Media - The breast cancer/HRT controversy. October 1997.
Human engine oil? - The conflicting evidence? From January 1998.