Top News Online

18 July 2013 Last updated at 20:45 ET Social attitudes to women drinking have changed Deaths from alcohol-related disease in young women are rising, contrary to the overall trend, a study suggests. Experts looked at deaths in men and women of all ages in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester from 1980 to 2011. They said the results for women born in ...

18 July 2013 Last updated at 11:30 ET By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News NHS 111 was due to have gone live across England in April The full rollout of the NHS non-emergency telephone service has been put back to next year, NHS officials say. The 111 service was due to be in place in April, but five of ...

17 July 2013 Last updated at 19:57 ET By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News Fourteen hospital trusts have been investigated in light of their high mortality rates The way hospital inspections in England have been carried out was flawed and they are to become broader and more robust, the new chief inspector says. Prof Sir Mike Richards said the ...

17 July 2013 Last updated at 14:00 ET By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. James Gallagher demonstrates the iKnife An “intelligent” knife that can sniff out tumours to improve cancer surgery has been developed by scientists. The Imperial College London team hope to overcome the dangerous and common ...

17 July 2013 Last updated at 02:44 ET By Helen Briggs BBC News MS can cause problems with walking and balance Existing drugs for motor neurone disease, asthma and heart disease are being tested as possible treatments for advanced multiple sclerosis (MS). About 500 people with late-stage MS are to enrol in clinical trials in England and Scotland to see ...

16 July 2013 Last updated at 09:22 ET By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Experts hope the downward trend will continue Older people’s risk of getting dementia is going down in the UK, research suggests. A study in the Lancet reveals a smaller proportion of older people living in Britain now have the condition than experts had predicted. ...

15 July 2013 Last updated at 20:24 ET By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News Fourteen hospital trusts have been investigated in light of their high mortality rates Standards of care at 14 hospital trusts with the worst death rates in England are to be laid bare in a report later. An investigation was launched earlier this year after the ...

15 July 2013 Last updated at 07:01 ET The way the care pathway has been implemented has come under intense scrutiny There needs to be an overhaul in the way dying patients are cared for in England, ministers have conceded. The government has ordered hospitals to carry out immediate reviews of their practices and announced the Liverpool Care Pathway will ...

14 July 2013 Last updated at 19:48 ET A simple dipstick test checks for albumin levels A quarter of people with diabetes do not get the kidney checks they need to detect early signs of damage, a charity suggests. Diabetes UK says data from the National Diabetes Audit in 2010/11 shows around 25% of people in England failed to get ...

14 July 2013 Last updated at 15:48 ET Even failing NHS trusts “had to deliver good news for the minister”, Prof Jarman said An independent expert on mortality rates has suggested that ministers have suppressed details of NHS failings to avoid losing votes. Prof Sir Brian Jarman said a “basic problem” with the NHS was that the government both provided ...