Ethicists fear free-for-all in animal-human transplants
· Scrapping of regulator raises public health fears · Process was ruled out as solution to organ shortage
The MP, the health secretary, and an unresolved conflict
· Campaign over A&E highlights discrepancy · Hewitt said to see protests as legitimate response
Government has one year left to save the NHS, warns BMA chief
· Call to look again at competitive market · Many hospital trusts in 'the worst of all worlds'
NHS will fail to meet MRSA target, says memo
· Goal of halving infections may never be achieved · Health department admits progress has been slow
League table rates UK fertility clinics
Britain's best and worst-performing fertility clinics have been revealed in a league table published by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority today.
Ryanair accuses Brown of ‘scalping’ flyers
2.30pm: Outspoken chief executive Michael O'Leary accuses the chancellor of stealing from air passengers by hiking taxes on flights. By Dan Milmo.
Secret report prompts call for more open NHS
Leading hospital did not reveal damning report into heart surgery.
Blair and Hewitt defend hospital closures
The prime minister and the health secretary visited a London heart hospital facing closure today to justify controversial NHS reforms.