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UK okays HIV home-tests
Kits allowing people to test themselves for HIV at home can be bought over the counter in the UK for the first time. Previously,...
More Scot organ donors
The number of people who donated their organs after death in Scotland has almost doubled over a six-year period. More than 2.1m Scots have...
Injectable sponges for battlefield
A simple new method could revolutionise battlefield medicine. This consists of a syringe filled with injectable sponges, shot directly into a wound to stop...
‘Lab grown’ organs
US scientists have completed the first successful implants of ‘lab-grown’ v aginal organs, in four women with a rare condition who were born without...
Millions sign up for Obamacare
More than 7.5m people are expected to sign up for private health coverage this year under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law. This includes 400,000...
UK GPs to be on call
Patients will be able to see their family doctors in the evenings and at weekends and e-mail them for advice, under plans for a...
‘Butcher' surgeon stopped from practising
Dr Luke Gordon, the Benoni plastic surgeon accused of leaving his patients disabled, disfigures and deformed, has been ordered by a Health Professions Council...
Herceptin patents overturned
Hospira has successfully overturned two patents on Roche’s breast cancer drug Herceptin in Britain, clearing the way for a cheaper copycat version in that...
Morphine in milk conviction
The conviction by a South Carolina jury of Stephanie Greene, a 39-year old nurse, of killing her six-week-old daughter by administering a morphine overdose...
App to overcome jet lag
Investigators from the University of Michigan have created an iPhone app that they say offers ‘shortcuts’ to help travellers adapt to different time zones...