Terminally ill people and their families are being let down by failings in end of life care, a watchdog says.
The National Audit Office said while most people wanted to die at home, the majority ended their days in hospital.
The report said families, hospices and care homes in England needed more help to provide better end of life services.
It was launched as a wonder drug. A tablet to take the pain out of kicking the killer weed.
Since it appeared on the market two years ago in the UK, almost 400,000 prescriptions for Champix have been written.
Across the world, that figure is currently sitting at nine million.
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has apologised for remarks he made saying a recession could be “good for us” in many ways.
The comments, published on Mr Lansley’s blog, were made in the context of the likely impact of a recession on health issues such as drinking and smoking.
Children are having to wait as long as two years to be given specialist therapy to help them recover from forms of brain damage.
But the BBC can also reveal there is a plan in hand that should dramatically improve the situation.
The BBC’s Soutik Biswas travels to the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, one of six states holding key elections, and asks why malnutrition has not been a major issue with politicians.
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Sometimes it can go undiagnosed. Sometimes it can go ignored. Sometimes it can go unnoticed.
Asperger syndrome - a form of autism characterised by difficulties dealing with people and social situations - affects close on one in every 100 people in Britain.
A heart unit that pioneered a technique the government says could save hundreds of lives a year, says it will have to expand to cope with demand.
Middlesbrough’s James Cook Hospital was part of a trail using emergency angioplasty on heart attack victims.
Last month, a Department of Health study concluded the trial had been a success.
A girl who underwent emergency surgery after a life-threatening tumour was found in her brain, now has a “bright future” and is back in school.
At the age of three-and-a-half, Veronica Ghoda’s parents from Bridgend were told she only had a few months to live if the tumour was left untreated.
Blood taken from a pregnant woman may reveal if her baby has a wide range of genetic diseases, researchers claim.
A Chinese University of Hong Kong team said the technique could identify cystic fibrosis, beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease.
Link to ArticleInconsiderate bosses not only make work stressful, they may also increase the risk of heart disease for their employees, experts believe.
A Swedish team found a strong link between poor leadership and the risk of serious heart disease and heart attacks among more than 3,000 employed men.
Imagine being one of the people who decides if a life-saving drug is too expensive for the public purse - when individual patients are desperate to get hold of the medicine.
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Patients are opposed to any plans to reduce the ability of rural GPs in England to provide drugs directly to their patients, a poll suggests.
There are fears that plans laid out in a government White Paper will threaten the future of GP dispensaries.
Excessive drinking by children and teenagers is storing up a time bomb of health problems, a charity has warned.
The British Liver Trust says it fears the amount children are drinking is rising despite a slight dip in the numbers who are actually drinking.
When Toral Shah discovered she had breast cancer and needed a mastectomy the first person she turned to was her mother, who had gone through exactly the same experience seven years earlier.
“She would always come to the hospital appointments with me as she knew how difficult it was to lose a breast,” said Toral.
Government borrowing is at record levels and bailing out the banks has put yet more pressure on public finances.
Yet the NHS in England is set to run up a substantial surplus, for the second year running.
Public health campaigners say it represents a fantastic opportunity for the health service to invest in innovative services to improve health.
Two works of art, two stories. Each portray the stark realities of war in their time, and show how medicine has struggled over the years to heal the injured.
In one corner of the Wellcome Collection, a huge canvas depicts a World War I soldier “being heaved out of the mud” on a stretcher, as curator Kate Forde puts it.
The parents of a 17-month-old girl have told how surgeons used glue to seal tiny brain blood vessels that were threatening her life.
Laura and Ryan Honeyman, from Horsford in Norfolk, first took their daughter Ella-Grace to France, then to the US to improve her survival chances.
It may bring a congratulatory telegram from the Queen but reaching 100 is no guarantee of a happy, contented, old age, US research suggests.
A study by researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia of 244 people aged 100 or over found one in four showed clear signs of depression.
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