The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, the not-for-profit organisation established for the advancement of education and practice of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery for public benefit, denounced new courses set up to train GPs in the latest aesthetic treatments.
New health guidance is advising pregnant women or those trying to conceive to avoid alcohol.
The General Medical Council (GMC) has launched a consultation to find out how doctors and patients can best work together to make decisions about treatment.
A UK primary care trust made a public apology to the family of a patient who died from multiple organ failure due to severe flaws in the care provided by an out-of-hours GP service.
South Australian research which found a link between cerebral palsy and exposure to herpes viruses has been recognised as among the most significant of the past year by an international panel of neuroscientists.
When an air traffic controller at the end of a double shift forgets the location of an aircraft that had recently appeared on his screen, it may be that he did not properly take in the visual information.
Follow-up of breast cancer patients after their initial treatment is becoming “devalued and deregulated”, according to new research published online in the cancer journal, Annals of Oncology.
Early-stage research has found that a new gene therapy can nearly eliminate arthritis pain, and significantly reduce long-term damage to the affected joints, according to a study published in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism.
An innovative project to bring nursing and medical students together for clinical education aims to encourage better communication and team work between the health professions.
In a fundamental discovery that someday may help cure type 1 diabetes by allowing people to grow their own insulin-producing cells for a damaged or defective pancreas, medical researchers have reported that they have engineered adult stem cells derived from human umbilical cord blood to produce insulin.