UK nursing association The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced Jan Maw as its new Public Health Adviser. She will be responsible for public health, occupational health, sexual health, trav...

The WHO has found that use of a simple surgical checklist during major operations can reduce the rate of surgery-related deaths and complications by over 33 percent

Concerns have been expressed that public health emergency relief efforts might be hindered because the U.S. lacks clear liability protection laws for all medical emergency responders.

Women in the world’s least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women in developed countries, according to UNICEF’s State ...

Researchers show that the somatopause is related directly to the decline of growth hormone (a natural substance produced by the body) during aging. Campbell cites biomedical research showing that i...

Since last year, 23 grants have been awarded from the fund, which is administered by the BMA's International Department. Projects have ranged from funding to support lectures on anaesthesia and obs...

Southern Cross University (Australia) is now offering a fully accredited Master of Acupuncture degree. The two-year course is open to professionals in the medical and allied health fields, such as ...

Many countries featured in the report are silent or forgotten emergencies, according to UNICEF Executive Director, Ann M. Veneman. She went on to say that women and children are dying every day du...

Data from more than 4,000 West Australian heart attack patients reveals improving survival trends. Researchers studied outcomes for 12 years of 4,451 patients admitted to hospital during 1984-7, 19...

Returning from a mission to Dungu in the Haut-Uele District, Pierrette Vu Thi, UNICEF Representative in the DRC, called for all parties to do everything possible to prevent harm to children and women.

People who run marathons are more likely to have higher levels of troponin, a protein associated with heart attacks. However, according to this study at UWA in Perth, the marathon runners did not a...

A new method has been developed for for detecting and managing the glaucoma. It is hoped that a new device called a TrueField Analyser will solve many of the problems associated with current test m...

Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak, one of the world's largest ever recorded, is far from being brought under control. An enhanced response is needed to urgently reverse an epidemic that has so far infect...