Parents are warned of the dangers of micro-pig craze ahead of Christmas

Practices risk exposing their patients to potentially deadly diseases

Many local authorities are boycotting a new national hygiene system for restaurants and cafés, claiming it is too expensive to run and not tough enough.

John Waterlow enjoyed international acclaim for his lifetime of work on the scientific basis and medical treatment of childhood malnutrition. He leaves a legacy of devotion to the betterment of humankind worldwide.

Tobias Ellwood said something interesting and that's got to be worth a quid. He's that nice, dim-looking Tory, with a bit of an undershot face, looks a bit like a clever Toby Perkins. He said: "Mr Speaker, you are an anecdote to verbal diarrhoea."

A butcher at the centre of a fatal E.coli outbreak which claimed the life of a five-year-old boy sold rotten meat for years before the tragedy, an inquest heard today.

The streets of Naples are again piled high with stinking rubbish, threatening a public health crisis in the southern Italian city and further ratcheting up the pressure on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

United Nations reluctantly agrees to investigate convincing claims Nepalese troops imported disease

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Hopes of stopping Haiti's cholera outbreak from turning into an epidemic were fading yesterday, as the disease has begun to infect residents of the densely populated tent cities of Port-au-Prince, where more than a million homeless people are still living as a result of January's earthquake.

From Kurt Cobain's greenhouse to Sharon Tate's living room, Dexter Dalwood's paintings are haunted by mortality. Peter York delights in the morbid brilliance of this year's favourite for the Turner Prize

One in four secondary pupils think their school toilets are "disgusting" and 36 per cent believe they are never clean, according to research published yesterday.

The most controversial Commonwealth Games of recent years were officially concluded last night in a powerful, sometimes nationalistic ceremony in Delhi in front of a stadium of roaring spectators.

What people want is a roll-your-sleeves-up kind of government that knows what it's doing. And it looks as though they are getting it