One prescription in 20 written by family doctors contains an error, according to a study published today.

Doctors whose English is not up to scratch could be struck off amid fears that patients are being put at risk.

An eminent doctor was celebrating a dramatic victory today after the High Court ruled that a decision to strike him off over the MMR controversy was unlawful.

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One of the doctors struck off over the MMR jab controversy asked the High Court today to rule his treatment "unfair and unjust".

The first question on the lips of any patient who learns that one in two operations by some surgeons ends in failure will be: how can I avoid them?

A "tired and stressed" doctor administered a dangerously high dose of diamorphine to a terminally-ill patient so he could "die in peace", a medical disciplinary panel was told.

A one-day-old baby has become one of the youngest children in Britain to undergo open heart surgery.

New guidelines by the General Medical Council say doctors should raise any concern a child is being abused with both parents and children.

US Outlook: Even writing this down feels like it might jinx it, but here goes: it has been a rather optimistic week in US politics. Finally, the nation's leaders appear to be having a grown-up debate on how to reduce the government's massive deficit and on how the country might live a little closer to within its means. Finally.

A pathologist's post-mortem reports on the first victim of the "Camden Ripper" Anthony Hardy were partially flawed, a disciplinary panel has found.

Kate Bleasdale has resigned from the board of Healthcare Locums, the healthcare staffing firm she founded back in 2003, though she remains an employee of the company.

Plans for doctors to face annual appraisals to ensure they are fit to practise contain weaknesses, a group of MPs has said.