By Sharif Sakr Technology of business reporter, BBC News WATCH: A premature baby receives treatment in the high-tech neonatology ward of the Centre Hospitalier de Villefrance Sur Saone
It is something that patients in many countries are acutely aware of: while our personal lives are effortlessly kept in sync by the internet and mobile devices, the management of our healthcare can seem stuck in the dark ages.
Hard-copy patient records are...
NHS reforms will open the health service up to more competition The government must not become a "slave to competition" over the NHS, the ex-head of the health regulator says.
Anna Walker said competition had an important role to play in making the health service more efficient.
But Ms Walker, now head of the Office of Rail Regulation, said ministers had to learn from other sectors - and limit the scope of private involvement.
It came as...
Survey: Tanning Popular Among Young Women, Despite Link to Skin CancerTeenage girls continue flocking to tanning beds—despite repeated warnings about the dangers of "fake baking." Ultraviolet rays that come from either the sun or an artificial source are carcinogens, and studies have found that people who engage in indoor tanning increase their risk of developing the deadly skin cancer melanoma by 75 percent. Still, 32 percent of young women...
Sarah Craig-Hancock with her brave guide dog Piper A guide dog who was brutally attacked by another dog but returned to lead his blind owner home has been honoured.
Piper, a black Labrador, was bitten while out walking with Sarah Craig-Hancock in Bridgend.
After being chased and injured by his attacker, he returned to his owner to fulfil his duties.
Vetinary charity PDSA presented him with a bravery award in recognition of his devotion...
A spirometer is used to blow slime off animals in the computer game Creep Frontier Could computer games be the solution for persuading children with cystic fibrosis to complete their physiotherapy?
The genetic condition leads to the build-up of thick mucus in the lungs.
Physiotherapy, including breathing exercises, is used to clear the lungs and open up the airways.
Carys, aged 12, from Glasgow, has two sessions a day, - but as her...
Brown fat burns calories while white fat stores them Scientists say they have found a way to turn body fat into a better type of fat that burns off calories and weight.
The US Johns Hopkins team made the breakthrough in rats but believe the same could be done in humans, offering the hope of a new way to treat obesity.
Modifying the expression of a protein linked to appetite not only reduced the animals' calorie intake and weight, but...
Coffee linked to one in 10 burst blood vessels in the brain Coffee, sex and blowing your nose could increase the risk of a type of stroke, say researchers in the Netherlands.
The study on 250 patients identified eight risk factors linked to bleeding on the brain.
They all increase blood pressure which could result in blood vessels bursting, according to research published in the journal Stroke.
The Stroke Association said more research...
The researchers looked at the distance around the hips and waist to measure the fat around the belly People with coronary artery disease have an increased risk of death if they have fat around the waist, according to researchers in the US.
The Mayo Clinic team, which analysed data from five studies involving 15,923 patients, found this even affected people with a normal Body Mass Index.
In the Journal of the American College of...
New regulations mean many herbal remedies will no longer be available over the counter New European Union rules have come into force banning hundreds of traditional herbal remedies.
The EU law aims to protect consumers from possible damaging side-effects of over-the-counter herbal medicines.
For the first time, new regulations will allow only long-established and quality-controlled medicines to be sold.
But both herbal remedy...
But the report says there is no increased cancer risk near nuclear power plants Children living near nuclear power plants in Britain are no more likely to develop leukaemia than those living elsewhere, experts have found.
Any risk was "extremely small, if not actually zero", the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE), said.
It examined data from 1969-2004 on children under five living near 13 nuclear power...
