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A hospital’s measures to prevent the spread of infections such as C difficile have been branded ‘ineffective’ by inspectors.

Children in Wales are being let down by inadequate mental health services, with some young patients treated on adult wards, a multi-agency report has claimed.

Staff shortages and high bed occupancy levels are increasing the pressure on services across the NHS to unexpected levels, a Nursing Times investigation has found.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there are now 6,200 deaths worldwide due to the H1N1 swine flu. The virus has spread to 206 countries and territories, with most deaths (4512 ) occurring in the USA. Canada also has reported sharp increases in rates of swine flu. People are understandably nervous, but keep in mind [...]

Anti-aging can be a difficult topic to address because it has a number of different common meanings and connotations. Each is championed by a particular group or coalition of interests which define their terms in ways that can make the subject confusing. For the scientific community, anti-aging research refers exclusively to slowing, preventing, or reversing […]

Someone once said that all human beings, from the earliest age, are on a slow road to death. By that it was meant that we have a limited lifespan which eventually ends, though many young people don’t seem to realize it. Fact is, everything around us has limitations – beginnings and [...]

I just came back from a ten day seminar with a very enlightened view of travelling and health. Let me tell you, when you get 300 people in a conference room and two or three of them have a cold, an interesting phenomenon happens: quite a few in the room will get sick within the [...]

A while back I spoke to a distressed senior who was told that his condition of general weakness and bodily pain was the inevitable result of aging. Now naturally, I disagree with such simple advice, as it is not rooted in wisdom. Where does the idea come from that age takes away [...]