Obese women told to slim before fertility treatment
· New guidelines for clinics to help with weight loss · Problem linked with birth defects and miscarriage
Papworth suspends heart transplants after rise in deaths
All heart transplant operations have been suspended at the renowned Papworth hospital while an investigation is held into an unexpectedly high death rate during the past year.
Trusts raided public health cash in panic over funding
NHS trusts across England syphoned off almost £100m from government funds intended to combat obesity, alcohol abuse and sexually transmitted infections as a panic measure to escape financial crisis, public health chiefs revealed yesterday.
Fat chance
The window of opportunity to tackle the obesity crisis is rapidly closing and the present token measures will be totally ineffectual.
Tax the homeopaths
Sue Blackmore: Revenues from alternative therapies might free up NHS doctors to offer what really does work for patients - time and care.
Open letter, closed minds
Peter Fisher: The doctors who signed today's open letter may find it a bitter pill to swallow, but homeopathy works - and people want it.
An open letter on homeopathy
Gustav Born and others: The public provision of 'alternative' medical treatment, for which there is no evidence of efficacy, cannot be allowed to continue.
Can you afford to be ill?
Mark Seddon: Medical treatment in the US can lead to endless wrangling over bills. Now it is becoming an election issue.
Hospital parking ‘a stealth tax on illness’
The NHS may be free at the point of delivery, but patients and their families paid hospital parking charges in England totalling £95m in 2005/06.