Month: July 2011

London’s Royal Brompton Hospital is granted permission to challenge a consultation it claims has put its child heart surgery unit at risk.

All UK schools should be required to have a comprehensive sun safety policy to protect children from skin cancer, says a campaigner.

How often does this happen? You start the day with great intentions for barreling through a list of priorities. But at quitting time, you’ve only accomplished one: getting (most of) your email answered and filed. You congratulate yourself on having done that, though a nagging voice in the back of your head whispers that, really, you haven’t done anything at all.

Email doesn’t have to consume your life. Here are 7 ideas for turning email into the tool it is, rather than the be-all and end-all of your days.

A leading health charity says rising cancer rates mean four in 10 people get the disease at some point in their lives.

“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.”

Spending more on the NHS is not necessarily unaffordable – despite the claims of ministers, a leading health expert says.

“A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no…