Health News

Concern over Broadmoor 'failings'

BBC Health News - Tue, 21/07/2009 - 10:49am
Broadmoor high-security hospital is criticised by a health watchdog over its high suicide rate and failure to protect patients.

Pendulum heart cured by spine op

BBC Health News - Tue, 21/07/2009 - 9:25am
A teenage girl whose heart was pushed to the wrong side of her body by a rare spine problem is cured by surgery.

Stressed parents up asthma risk

BBC Health News - Tue, 21/07/2009 - 7:55am
Stressed parents may increase the risk that a child will develop asthma, research findings suggest.

Immune therapy Alzheimer's hope

BBC Health News - Tue, 21/07/2009 - 2:06am
An immune system therapy given to cancer patients could have the added benefit of reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Potent cancer drug hopes raised

BBC Health News - Tue, 21/07/2009 - 2:03am
A new way of making cancer cells die has been discovered by UK scientists, raising hopes of potent new treatments.

Man refused liver transplant dies

BBC Health News - Mon, 20/07/2009 - 8:37pm
A 22-year-old east London man who began binge-drinking at 13 dies after health chiefs refuse to give him a liver transplant.

Half a brain girl recovers vision

BBC Health News - Mon, 20/07/2009 - 4:13pm
Scientists solve the mystery of how a girl born with half a brain has near perfect vision in one eye.
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