Our daughter was born in May 1995. She needed oxygen and had to be ventilated. Finally, we took her home in mid July and she seemed to be well. Then in January, she developed an infection which me ...
A story published without fanfare in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal (see facing story, this page) revealed the astonishing statistic that one third of all people who have had trans ...
Junior doctors in emergency departments are commonly diagnosing wrist fractures as simple sprains, according to a new UK study.
Like most bad decisions in medicine, the latest bit of madness started with an accident. A young Australian woman with a 17 month old baby asked the Key Centre for Women's Health in Victoria, Aust ...
HOSPITALS: Are we sure they're places where people go to get better?
Buried away in a British Medical Journal column quaintly entitled called "Education & Debate", giving the impression of a nice place for gentlemen to chew over the great medical issues of the day, ...
This is not the first time the government has rushed through a vaccination programme in response to a threatened epidemic. In 1976, the American government, warned by scientists that an epidemic ...
WATCH OUT: Here comes the man in the white coat
MEDICAL ERRORS: Now here's an idea. . .
If you land in hospital, demand a consultant, or failing that, a pass out the door. ...