Following the Christmas day bomb attempt on a US aircraft, the British and American governments have vowed to tighten airport security, including plans for CT body scanners. This has raised concerns – not least that the images generated by the sca…
So last week I had several emails, and then saw several adverts/advertorial, for a device which is being sold in Boots, called ‘Breast Light’. It is almost 90 UK pounds, and it is being given a prominent position in my local store. The webs…
By Rebecca Knight
Can something as simple as the timing of when we take a coffee break help us better remember the presentation we just attended, or retain the details of the podcast we just heard?
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A study by researchers at New York University think…
The NHS ”Distinction Award” Scheme was set up as a way to reward hospital consultants for being extra-good.
If they wrote books, set up services, pioneered, discovered or whatever, then there was the possibility, after the decision of a …
A nurse in Glasgow has been suspended, pending an investigation about photographs of patients, having surgery, being posted on Facebook. Not very nice, we may think.
Nurse suspended for putting photographs of patients taken during operations on Faceboo…
Magical powers are always being squeezed from fruit. The latest is derived from the pomegranate, which is said to tackle drug-resistant infections such as MRSA.
This claim, by a team from the University of Kingston in Surrey, tells me two things. First…
Part of UK NHS development has been to make some nurses specialists in their area. Some aspects of this are not new – if you keep people learning and involved in a certain area – diabetes, say, or asthma – they are going to get very familiar with man…
I do think that Karsten Jorgensen and Peter Gotzsche deserve a medal. Over the years they have worked in the Nordic Cochrane Centre they have published, unwaveringly, what their research has shown. This is, namely, that breast screening is not very eff…
Cannabis and the law have a clear relationship; to take the former is to break the latter. For years, pressure has been mounting on the government to change this position. And not just for recreational reasons, but medical ones too. It is often claimed…
By Rebecca Knight
Most of the time blogging for FT.com’s health section is a lot of fun. I get to write about cool breakthrough technologies and therapies that might change the way our bodies fight disease. I get to learn about the latest studies…