Spine implant
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Health & Nature | No Comments »By David FentonBBC South health correspondentA teenage gymnast from Portsmouth has become the first person in the world to get a new kind of implant to help straighten her back.Ruth Smith has scoliosis of the spine - which means her ...
‘Bad syrup’ kills Nigerian babies
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Health & Nature | No Comments »Nigeria's food and drug agency says that 25 children aged between three months and four years have died after taking a contaminated teething syrup.The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control said it had shut down the Lagos-based manufacturer, ...
‘Bad syrup’ kills Nigerian babies
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Health & Nature | No Comments »Nigeria's food and drug agency says that 25 children aged between three months and four years have died after taking a contaminated teething syrup.The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control said it had shut down the Lagos-based manufacturer, ...
Undercover nurse ‘betrayed’ staff
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Health & Nature | No Comments »A former colleague of a nurse who took part in secret filming for a BBC documentary at a Brighton hospital has said he felt betrayed by her actions. Margaret Haywood, 58, of Liverpool, is answering disciplinary charges at the Nursing ...
Undercover nurse ‘betrayed’ staff
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Health & Nature | No Comments »A former colleague of a nurse who took part in secret filming for a BBC documentary at a Brighton hospital has said he felt betrayed by her actions. Margaret Haywood, 58, of Liverpool, is answering disciplinary charges at the Nursing ...
Health boards ‘broke data laws’
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Health & Nature | No Comments »Two Scottish health boards broke data protection laws by leaving patients' personal information at abandoned hospitals, it has been ruled.In May, it was revealed that documents had been discovered at Strathmartine Hospital on the outskirts of Dundee.Then in July a ...
Legal bid over research regulator
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Health & Nature | No Comments »Campaigners are seeking permission to launch a High Court test case over the regulation of controversial research.The Christian Legal Centre and Comment on Reproductive Ethics have claimed the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) operates unfairly.To demonstrate their point, they ...
Distractions ‘hit old-age memory’
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Health & Nature | No Comments »Mental slowing down in old age can be blamed partly on being more easily distracted, research suggests.The Canadian team asked young and old people to attempt a memory test while in a scanner showing which bits of their brain were ...
Coping with war
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Health & Nature | No Comments »By Caroline WyattDefence correspondent, BBC News"I started drinking, I started fighting and I was more aggressive - but I didn't care. I couldn't sleep, my chest felt tight, I felt sick - and then there were the flashbacks."I got diagnosed ...
Young unaware of junk food impact
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Health & Nature | No Comments »Most young people in the UK are unaware of the serious damage junk food can do to their health, a survey suggests.The British Heart Foundation poll found 73% of eight to 15-year-olds were not aware that a junk food-laden diet ...
