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Oil spill could be among worst ever
Monday 17 May 2010
Latest American survey reveals disaster is 'many times bigger' than early estimates
Blood test on newborns could prevent disability, say scientists
Friday 14 May 2010
A blood test to assess the risk of brain damage in vulnerable newborn babies could save lives and prevent disability, scientists say.
Colony of microbes 'as big as Greece' found in ocean
Monday 19 April 2010
Giant cluster of creatures believed to be related to Earth's earliest inhabitants
Ash poses no health risk, says expert
Thursday 15 April 2010
A vulcanologist today reassured people in the UK that the ash did not pose a health risk.
GM viruses offer hope of future where energy is unlimited
Tuesday 13 April 2010
Breakthrough as US researchers replicate photosynthesis in laboratory
NHS cuts patient death rate
Thursday 25 March 2010
Number of fatalities following accidents or mistakes falls 37 per cent
Inquiry into 'sex game' after death of BBC host
Wednesday 03 March 2010
Inquest to find cause of 'unexplained' death as belt and bag are taken for tests
My heart attack at 36
Tuesday 02 February 2010
At just 36, Sally Bee suffered a heart attack so severe that doctors told her husband to say his goodbyes. Here, she recounts her recovery against the odds
Jeremy Laurance: What you should know before you pop a vitamin pill
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Medical Life
Why hospital is a dangerous place to be
Wednesday 07 October 2009
Almost 4,000 NHS patients in England died last year following “safety incidents”, in which some aspect of their care went wrong.
Portable machine to help swine flu victims developed
Friday 02 October 2009
A portable version of a life-saving machine that has been used to treat seriously ill swine flu victims is being developed, scientists revealed today
Cooling 'cure' averts infant brain damage
Thursday 01 October 2009
Hi-tech 'ice pack' helps to protect newborns starved of oxygen through suffocation
£400,000 damages for family of woman who died in childbirth
Thursday 24 September 2009
The family of a woman who died in labour and never saw the son she had conceived after IVF treatment was awarded £410,000 damages today.
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Diary of Second World War German teenager reveals young lives untroubled by Nazi Holocaust in wartime Berlin
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Bosses of collapsed banks should be sent to jail, banking standards commission tells George Osborne
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Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
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Uri Geller psychic spy? The spoon-bender's secret life as a Mossad and CIA agent revealed
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Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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