Ministers are facing demands from more than 60 leading medical professionals to scrap or substantially rewrite highly controversial NHS
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I challenge you to scan any health magazine and not find numerous recommendations to give up tea and coffee. This advice is, of course, utter twaddle.... more
Women are warned against taking the painkiller ibuprofen during early pregnancy after scientists found it can more than double the risk of miscarriage... more
Soaring birth rates, ‘controlling’ consultants, older mothers and NHS trusts anxious for risk-free deliveries mean many women can no longer choose how they give birth... more
Two London hospitals have been accused of blocking access to life-saving treatment, by barring new mothers from storing their babies’ stem cells... more
Where George Osborne's cuts will hit the hardest. The Shadow Chancellor delivered his assessment of the economic situation with brutal reality.
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A woman whose baby died after she was turned away from her nearest maternity unit warned that more lives could be lost as the NHS faces a crisis this summer... more
Health bosses have launched an "unprecedented" attempt to reduce the number of Caesarean sections - leading to accusations they are "rationing" the births... more
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