The doctor struck off over mistakes that led to the death of six-year-old Jack Adcock in 2011 could return to work. It comes after the Court of Appeal upheld her challenge against the decision. On 13 August, Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba won her appeal...
Health/Fitness/Spirituality
Google users in the UK might have been surprised to have been greeted by Ibn Sina as they opened the Google homepage. However, Avicenna, as he is often known in the west, made significant contributions in a range of topics: from medicine to...
A woman has filmed herself giving birth unassisted in her garden. Sarah Schmid, from Halle, Germany, has six children and gave birth to all of them outside a hospital. After she had her first child with the help of a midwife, she had the rest of her...
Doctors will no longer always have to get permission from a judge to turn off a patient’s life support. It comes after a legal ruling about a man in a vegetative state, who was unlikely to ever regain consciousness. The 52-year-old financial...
People who use homeopathy, herbal remedies and other alternative therapies as part of their cancer treatment are, on average, twice as likely to die from the disease as those who use conventional treatment only, a study has shown. This is because...
A man who allegedly infected women with HIV has been told that he must get written permission from police if he wants to have sex. Aaron Sutcliffe, 29, from Fleetwood, Lancashire, was told that he is a sexual risk to the public so must get...
There is a need to review how cases for the medical use of cannabis are handled, the prime minister has said. Theresa May made the comment after a special licence was granted allowing Billy Caldwell, 12, to be treated with cannabis oil for his...