After potentially serious back-to-back laboratory accidents, health officials temporarily closed the flu and anthrax laboratories at the in and halted shipments of...People
Dr Alan MacMahon, who has died in at the age of 70, was the father of emergency medical rescue services in . A report says MacMahon revolutionised ambulance care and...Technology
To cut medical costs and diagnose minor ailments, some US health insurers are allowing millions of patients to be seen online first. reports that in a major expansion...Technology
A lightweight, automated and easy-to-use mobile health solution called hearScreen is seen as ideal for developing countries and use in rural areas, reports . The...Medico-Legal
Two sets of parents of children born with severe disabilities, due to medical negligence by state health workers when their mothers were in labour, have been awarded an...Bio-Ethics
In 1998 Nelson Mandela requested the South African Law Commission to present a proposal on assisted dying, writes Marianne Thamm on . The subsequent report, which...Quick diagnoses
The notion that lower back pain flares up during certain kinds of weather may be all in your head, a new study suggests. Researchers in tracked nearly 1,000 people who...Quick diagnoses
Heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are steadily killing more and more latest report details NCD trends in countries as well as...Quick diagnoses
Moves by the regulatory body the to scrap almost a third of medical degree places across the country in order to improve the quality of medical education have thrown...Quick diagnoses
Simple regular eye tests could be used to identify Alzheimer's disease at a very early stage. Early trials of two different techniques show that a key biomarker for the...
