New Home Office drug strategy, same old rhetoric

Jul 18, 2017 13:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

The Home Office has just published a new drug strategy. The last one was published by Theresa May (then home secretary) seven years ago. The world has changed a lot in that time not least for May and so have drugs and...

Why has healthcare become such a target for cyber-attackers?

Jul 18, 2017 13:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

More than 16m patient records were stolen from healthcare organisations in the US and related parties in 2016. That year, healthcare was the fifth most targeted industry when it came to cyber-attacks. And earlier this...

As academic hospitals lower mortality rates, should insurers reconsider excluding them?

Jul 17, 2017 01:19 am UTC| Health Economy

A comprehensive new study has found that major teaching hospitals in the United States outperformed non-teaching hospitals in the most important of all health care outcomes: reducing mortality rates. Using a traditional...

What to look for when choosing a good care home

Jul 14, 2017 13:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Although four out of five adult care homes in England evaluated in a recent report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) were found to provide good care, it is the shocking reports of resident abuse, medication errors,...

FDA Approves Gene-Editing To Cure Leukemia

Jul 13, 2017 12:56 pm UTC| Health

Its a new age for science as the US Food and Drug Administration gave its approval for scientists to conduct genetic manipulation in an effort to combat leukemia. This could potentially lead to a cure that does not require...

Numbers show that marriage does make men fatter

Jul 12, 2017 19:05 pm UTC| Health

Wedding vows traditionally account for the possibility of bumps in the road ahead. For richer for poorer is an admirable sentiment. But they rarely mention a couples changing fortunes when it comes to body mass index...

An outbreak of Ebola in the DRC has been contained. What went right this time?

Jul 12, 2017 18:50 pm UTC| Health

The World Health Organisation recently declared the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). By the time the outbreak was contained, eight people had been infected. Four...