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A health board in Scotland is planning to develop calming green spaces at its hospital sites as a way of improving the health of patients, staff and visitors.

Health Secretary Andy Burnham has visited the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust to open a new dental unit for patients with special needs.

Healthcare regulators must have teeth and be seen to emphasise patient safety, the Royal College of Nursing has said in the light of care failings at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust.

The human brain, when properly functioning, is a complex mass of protoplasm capable of staggering mental feats. So what causes eventual memory loss or cognitive decline? The answer is complicated. Some things we know about, others are speculative. A 2009 study appearing in the journal “Neurobiology of Aging” suggests that some aspects of age-related cognitiv […]

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 [...]