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Why dental visits are hair-raising if you're a redhead
Sunday 25 March 2012
New research aims to determine whether having ginger hair makes you especially sensitive to pain
Victory in sight for revolution over female genital mutilation
Monday 06 February 2012
Amid the horrors surrounding female genital mutilation (FGM) there is a quiet revolution, which experts hope could lead to the eradication of the practice.
Fugitive surrenders 17 years after Tokyo gas attack
Monday 02 January 2012
Member of doomsday cult behind Japan's subway atrocity turns himself in at police station
Murray defends himself on TV over Jackson
Friday 11 November 2011
The doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson remained silent during his trial, but Conrad Murray defended himself in television interviews filmed only days before a jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Jackson jury get the weekend off
Saturday 05 November 2011
Jurors considering the case against Michael Jackson's doctor ended their first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict or asking any questions indicating how far along they have got in their discussions.
Brown is like dental treatment with no anaesthetic, said Blair
Saturday 03 September 2011
Tony Blair found it so difficult to work with Gordon Brown that he complained that "dealing with GB is like having dental treatment with no anaesthetic", Alistair Darling recalls in his memoirs.
Hospital admits error that paralysed girl
Wednesday 31 August 2011
A teenage schoolgirl was left paralysed from the waist down when a spinal anaesthetic was left in too long after a routine operation, a hospital has admitted.
Liam Fox defends Mideast arms sales
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Britain should seek to retain a "healthy slice" of the defence market in the Middle East, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said today.
Execution using UK drugs 'may have gone wrong'
Thursday 27 January 2011
An American prisoner in Georgia was executed with British drugs despite testimony from defence lawyers and a medical expert that one of the chemicals might have been ineffective and beyond its shelf life.
Judge orders Michael Jackson doctor to stand trial
Wednesday 12 January 2011
A judge today ordered the personal physician of Michael Jackson to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter after hearing testimony that he administered a dose of a powerful anesthetic and other sedatives then left the pop star alone.
Paul Sherwood: Pioneering anaesthetist and physician who developed the Sherwood Technique for the relief of back pain
Monday 27 December 2010
The eminent Harley Street physician Paul Sherwood has died at the age of 93. From his early beginnings as an anaesthetist, it was his lifelong work dedicated to non-specific back pain that earned him the reputation as a pioneer in this field.
Woman who concealed stillborn babies avoids jail
Tuesday 07 December 2010
A woman who concealed the births of four stillborn babies and kept three of them in her wardrobe for two decades escaped jail today.
The Slice: Cutting to See Architectural Association Gallery, London
Sunday 05 December 2010
Beauty is in the beholding of the eye – whichever way you slice it
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