Rates of lung cancer will drop by nearly a fifth over the next 20 years, experts predict.
Cancer Research UK analysis suggests that by 2024, 40 per 100,000 people will get the cancer compared with the current rate of 50 per 100,000. for more click here
Al Qaeda terrorists have been left fearing the Black Death plague after it wiped out at least 40 insurgents at an Algerian training camp, it was reported today.
The horror disease, which killed 25 million people in medieval Europe, is understood to have been found in a militant’s body dumped at a roadside.
Terror group AQLIM (al Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb) was forced to turn its shelter in the Yakouren forests into mass graves and flee, it has been claimed. for more click here
The health crisis in Zimbabwe should be the investigated by the International Criminal Court, campaign group Physicians for Human Rights says. The physicians group also says that without a political solution, the health care system, water and sanitation should be taken over by the United Nations. for more click here
Conjoined twin Faith Williams died on Christmas Day, 23 days after the death of her sister.
Faith and sister Hope were joined at the chest when they were born on 26 November. Hope died in an operation to separate them on 2 December. for more click here
With the death toll in the cholera epidemic sweeping Zimbabwe now over 1,200 and the total number of cases nearing 24,000, the United Nations Children’s Fund or UNICEF said mothers and children are dying because basic social and health services are no longer functioning. for more click here
When pro-choice demonstrators gather outside parliament today, they really will have cause to protest. In an extraordinary stitch-up, the government has cheated its way out of the abortion debate that was scheduled to be part of tomorrow’s human fertilisation and embryology bill. Campaigners are blistering with fury that procedural sleight of hand will deny the chance to reform the forty-year old abortion act. for more click here
A flu virus more deadly than any seen in two decades is threatening Britain.
The strain originates in Australia where it has claimed hundreds of lives, including those of children.
Called Brisbane H3N2, it is so virulent that health chiefs have had to change the make-up of flu vaccines to deal with it. for more click here
Increased premiums for low-income families are expected to put the program out of reach for many. A new Medi-Cal policy is also expected to cut enrollees, further weakening the healthcare system. for more click here
PEEBLES, Scotland (AP) — Robert Mackie trembles with rage when he describes how he and his wife were kept in the dark about his HIV infection — and how doctors published his medical data in journals years before they gave him the devastating news.
Mackie is one of some 5,700 British hemophiliacs who received tainted blood and were infected with HIV, hepatitis or both, in what has been viewed as one of the worst treatment disasters in the history of Britain’s heath care system. Nearly a third of those infected have since died. for more click here
Some of the UK’s top cancer consultants warn that NHS drug “rationing” is forcing patients to remortgage their homes to pay for treatment.
The specialists accuse the government drugs advisory body of “rationing” too severely and call for a “radical change” in the way decisions are made. for more click here