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Information commissioner condemns health secretary for failing to publish risk register

Wed, 16 May 2012 03:21:17 +0100

US citizens are less healthy but living longer, report says

Wed, 16 May 2012 03:21:17 +0100

Experts launch Europe-wide drive to highlight dangers of alcohol

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:17:59 +0100

Netherlands tops European healthcare league, with UK coming in at 12th

Tue, 15 May 2012 04:49:38 +0100

In brief

Tue, 15 May 2012 04:49:38 +0100

EU tightens drug safety law before it is even implemented

Tue, 15 May 2012 04:49:38 +0100

Device regulator is told to improve its safety monitoring after breast implant debacle

Tue, 15 May 2012 04:49:38 +0100

UK doctors vote on industrial action for first time in 37 years

Tue, 15 May 2012 04:49:38 +0100

Pfizer Australia faces scrutiny over atorvastatin advertising campaign

Tue, 15 May 2012 04:49:38 +0100

Pfizer Australia has been accused of breaching regulations banning advertisements aimed directly at consumers by placing in the media what it calls “community service announcements” about its cholesterol lowering drug atorvastatin (which it markets as Lipitor).

Insecticide resistance threatens malaria control programmes, WHO says

Tue, 15 May 2012 01:19:19 +0100

Concerned by the emerging threat that resistance to insecticides poses to programmes to control malaria vectors, the World Health Organization this week launched a new global plan for insecticide resistance management.

EU law forces UK ministers to rethink food labelling

Tue, 15 May 2012 01:19:19 +0100

Reorganisation at Global Fund sparks $1.6bn in new donations

Mon, 14 May 2012 03:52:01 +0100

Old authoritarian patterns of doctors’ behaviour are still alive and well in California, study shows

Mon, 14 May 2012 03:52:01 +0100

More Americans find healthcare unattainable, shows study

Mon, 14 May 2012 03:52:01 +0100

Hospitals in Wales need to reconfigure to improve patient outcomes, says report

Mon, 14 May 2012 03:52:01 +0100

Cheap alcohol is to be outlawed in Scotland

Mon, 14 May 2012 03:52:01 +0100

Canada’s first mental health strategy calls for major improvements to services

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:06:12 +0100

More than half of diabetes patients are not getting standard health checks

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:06:12 +0100

Diabetes care in England is in a “state of crisis,” with fewer than half of patients receiving even the basic minimum of care, a new report from Diabetes UK warns. The charity’s State of the Nation 2012 report states that in some areas just 6% of people with diabetes are getting the nine regular checks and services recommended by the national service framework for diabetes and by NICE. Even in the best performing areas the proportion is just 69%.

Dying remains a taboo subject for patients and GPs, finds survey

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:06:12 +0100

CCG funding could be based on population age, not deprivation, says Lansley

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:06:12 +0100