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First Person: Nate Miller (04 October 05:55) |
| Africa can be bad for your life expectancy. Most dangers are mundane: microscopic parasites, mosquitoes, cars with bad brakes, unequipped hospitals. The more newsworthy events - rebel attack... |
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Home health check (04 October 05:55) |
| High blood pressure is one of the most common diagnoses in primary care. Doctors are encouraged to treat it in order to reduce the risk of cardiovascular complications, such as heart attacks... |
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California may seek $7bn emergency loan (04 October 04:35) |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's governor, has told the federal government that upheaval in the credit markets could leave his state in need of an emergency $7bn loan to pay for public se... |
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Patients slow on choosing hospitals (02 October 04:00) |
| Patients' right to choose which hospital treats them is being taken up far more slowly than the government had hoped and there are large variations around the country, according to private h... |
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Bug buster who senses success (01 October 12:05) |
| Laurent Auret likes to say he has four children: two boys, a girl and a company. Yet it is the last, just seven years old, that is likely to sever its paternal ties first, he believes. |
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Indonesia eyes hospital profits (29 September 03:30) |
| The Indonesian government plans to build five "world class" hospitals catering for rich citizens who spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on treatment overseas. |
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'Let's not make our culture suffer' (19 September 10:40) |
| It is 30 years since Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests were performed in London. Now they have returned to an Old Vic that has been dramatically reshaped so the plays can be staged, as t... |
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Japan farm minister quits in rice scandal (19 September 10:10) |
| Seiichi Ota, Japan's agriculture minister, resigned on Friday over the sale of tainted Chinese rice to foodmakers, restaurants and hospitals. |
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Is warming up before you exercise a waste of time? (13 September 06:35) |
| Exercise is good for you. This is the gospel that we doctors are enjoined to preach to patients - we even have prescription pads to refer people to the gym. |
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Talking tough on public spending (10 September 12:10) |
| The UK's opposition Conservatives lost the last two general elections in part because they allowed Labour to portray them as taking an axe to spending on schools and hospitals. For the party... |
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Watchdog warns against funding clawback (09 September 07:50) |
| A return to the bad old days when hospitals, schools and government departments wasted money to stop the Treasury clawing it back is on the cards, MPs warned on Monday. |
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Government lies and squishy ethics (08 September 01:15) |
| "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Benjamin Disraeli, later popularised by Mark Twain.Let's drill down to examine three sets of government-issued lies, or sh... |
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Council push to bulk-buy oil on futures market (05 September 04:25) |
| A bold plan for public sector bodies such as councils, hospitals and emergency services to cut their soaring energy bills by clubbing together to buy fuel in the futures market is being aggr... |
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Southern Cross searches for new chief (04 September 01:10) |
| Bill Colvin is stepping down as chief executive of Southern Cross Healthcare, the nursing home operator said on Thursday, as it announced the sale of another seven care homes. |
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Politicians cannot be trusted to set the fiscal rules (03 September 12:10) |
| The fiscal framework set out for the UK in 1998 has two principal components. The golden rule states that current expenditure should match tax receipts over an economic cycle. The sustainabl... |
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Watchdog warns officials on PFI deals (02 September 07:35) |
| Ministers and officials should work harder to make sure that private finance initiative (PFI) deals offer the taxpayer value for money, parliament's public spending watchdog will warn on Tue... |
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Bupa profits dented by Irish exit (28 August 09:35) |
| Profits at BUPA have been dented by its exit from the Irish market last year, although its core insurance business continues to grow, as the health insurer expands its presence in other mark... |
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Hospitals welcome private sector visits (27 August 10:30) |
| These are busy days for Dr Faisal Al-Mousawi. The chairman of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Medical University of Bahrain is about to take over management of the government-built ... |
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Redundancy and a depression (19 August 10:10) |
| Philip Joslin, a senior clinician at Lifeworks, a private clinic in London dealing with addictions and depression, believes redundancy "is not just a matter of economic survival. It threaten... |
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Beijing hospitals lock up psychiatric wards (15 August 01:20) |
| China's drive for social stability during the Olympic Games has prompted some hospitals in Beijing and Shanghai to lock up psychiatric patients on what had previously been open wards, accord... |
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Doctors oppose US health plan (05 August 03:25) |
| The Massachusetts healthcare programme widely seen as a test case for universal health coverage in the US faces mounting opposition from doctors who say the reform is failing. |
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China pressure groups learn to tread carefully (21 July 10:40) |
| When Hou Guanghui first visited Yintan - or Silver beach - as a 12-year-old, he was so enthralled that he wrote an essay for school, entitled "The First Time I Saw the Sea". So when the form... |
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Infrastructure's era of bumper returns is over (21 July 02:35) |
| Around the world, there are signs that infrastructure is struggling to cope with continued economic and population growth. Blackouts, traffic congestion and over-capacity on railways and at ... |
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Band-Aids won't save Britain (19 July 02:00) |
| How can you tell when a developed country is on a fast-track to becoming a failing or failed state? Does it only become official when Christiane Amanpour - CNN's chief international correspo... |
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The fallacy of the 'choice agenda' (17 July 11:55) |
| Whenever a particular idea appears to have captured the centre ground of politics it is time to look at it with a beady eye. This applies now to what is sometimes called the "choice agenda".... |
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Abbot's strong international sales bolster earnings (16 July 09:00) |
| Abbott Laboratories ABT on Wednesday beat Wall Street expectations with second-quarter earnings bolstered by strong sales of Humira, its rheumatoid-arthritis treatment, and other medical pro... |
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Discipline needs more than rules (14 July 12:45) |
| There are many people who believe gym membership alone will make them fit. Similarly, the Labour government seems to think that signing up to a framework of fiscal rules automatically brings... |
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Hospital death rates for surgery published (11 July 08:20) |
| Hospital-by-hospital death rates for four main types of surgery were published by the health department on Thursday as the first step in a revolution in the publication of the results of NHS... |
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Honduras aims for sustainable tourism boost (08 July 09:00) |
| Until the 1970s, the United Fruit Company - now known as United Brands - dominated Tela, a sleepy town on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. "People worked with the company, travelled on its t... |
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QIA discussing recapitalisation of Four Seasons (07 July 03:30) |
| The Qatari Investment Authority is talking to potential new partners, including private equity firm Blackstone, about possible ways to recapitalise its Four Seasons Healthcare, the troubled ... |
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Southern Cross strengthens board (04 July 02:15) |
| Southern Cross, the beleaguered nursing home operator, on Friday made changes to its senior management team in the wake of a disastrous profits warning earlier in the week that saw a sell-of... |
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Three generations of doctors (04 July 01:10) |
| Dame Margaret Turner- Warwick was a medical student on the day the NHS launched in 1948. She qualified in 1950. A leading lung specialist, with international honours, she became professor of... |
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Patients were safer at night, doctors claim (04 July 01:05) |
| Sixty years ago, young doctors were expected to devote themselves single-mindedly to their patients. |
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GPs angry at cartel accusation (04 July 12:55) |
| A drive to turn patients' right to choose their GP into a reality was launched on Thursday by health ministers, triggering a fresh clash with the British Medical Association, the doctors' tr... |
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'The future of big science' (02 July 05:20) |
| Massachusetts General Hospital is an example of American scientific ingenuity at its best. |
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Appetite for health loses its edge (01 July 10:25) |
| When Bill Colvin, the chief executive of Southern Cross Healthcare, decided in March to borrow £46m to finance the acquisition of 20 new nursing homes, he thought it would be a straightforw... |
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Broad welcome from business (01 July 03:45) |
| There are only passing references to the private sector in Lord Darzi's 85-page report, but business broadly welcomed the outcome on Monday. |
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Southern Cross shares plunge (01 July 03:20) |
| Shares in Southern Cross Healthcare lost more than half their value on Monday after the nursing home group issued a profit warning and revealed it had been forced to secure a temporary waive... |
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Health reform causes a headache (30 June 04:45) |
| Hong Kong's public healthcare system has long been regarded as one of the world's best, offering the city's 7m residents broadly equal access to high-quality, low-cost medical services. |
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Energy concerns could swing Ohio result (23 June 02:20) |
| Richard Daley hoped he would spend more time at his Kentucky vacation home in retirement. Instead, the 60-year-old former engineer, has cut his number of visits by half because of the soarin... |
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Meet the ancestors (21 June 07:10) |
| Going to see Ibsen's intense late drama Rosmersholm at London's Almeida Theatre recently, I was struck by two aspects of the play I hadn't fully appreciated when studying it for A-level Engl... |
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HBOS writes down its stakes in housebuilders (20 June 03:55) |
| HBOS yesterday wrote down the value of its equity stakes in UK housebuilders by half - or about £100m - because of the turmoil in the sector. |
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Jobs combat social isolation, says GP (17 June 06:00) |
| At 68, Clare Roden is one of more than 8,000 doctors in the NHS working beyond retirement age. The additional income is low on her list of reasons to keep going. |
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Facing up to a fiscal conundrum (16 June 11:50) |
| When the US economic downturn began, the country's fiscal position was already weak. The administration nonetheless proposed an emergency stimulus - mostly criticised as too miserly. Farther... |
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Swimming in a Sea of Death (09 June 11:25) |
| Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's MemoirBy David RieffGranta Books £12.99 192 pagesFT bookshop price: £10.39 |
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Concern at VAT bill for agency doctors (07 June 07:55) |
| The Treasury has hit the National Health Service with a £100m ($197m) bill for value added tax by insisting it pay the tax on the full cost of employing agency doctors and other medical pro... |
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UK told not to impose polyclinics (05 June 04:40) |
| A leading health think tank on Thursday appealed to the government not to impose "polyclinics" on the National Health Service - saying they should go ahead only where the benefits and costs ... |
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Latest cure failed its first clinical trial (05 June 09:50) |
| The widely-trailed announcement on Wednesday of a "new" regime to deal with failing National Health Service hospitals - including the possibility that the private sector might take over thei... |
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NHS regime to test failing hospitals (04 June 07:20) |
| A systematic regime for dealing with failing NHS hospitals and primary care trusts is to be outlined on Wednesday by Alan Johnson, the health secretary. |
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Qatar fund in rift with adviser (04 June 02:50) |
| The relationship between the Qatar Investment Authority and Three Delta, its UK investment adviser run by Paul Taylor, has broken down and the sovereign wealth fund is working on buying out ... |
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