United Kingdom Health News

PEOPLE in Wales at risk of contracting swine flu were urged today to get vaccinated after five people were diagnosed with a strain resistant to Tamiflu. Assurance about vaccination came from Dr Roland Salmon, director of the Communicable Disease Surveillance...

Experts redesigned the current No 1 treatment before testing began on 18 patients suffering from the life-threatening blood and bone marrow cancer in Ireland. Doctors believe they may be able to use the process as a blueprint for making other...

Ministry spokesman Iliesa Tora said the H1N1 Taskforce members met last week to discuss Fiji's status regarding the disease. "Fiji is now preparing for the second phase of the Pandemic H1N1 2009, with some countries in the northern hemisphere already...

A doctor said Britain's National Health Service needs to focus on improving the health of its staff members in areas such as smoking and obesity. Dr. Steven Boorman said in a new report with NHS staff sickness rates surpassing those...

It isn’t easy to achieve a result like this and it really makes me proud of those who have been so committed to making more elective surgery available,” Mr Meates said. For the first quarter of this year, 87 per...

The level of swine flu activity in the United States appears to be declining, although officials are worried about another increase of cases during the Thanksgiving holiday when many people travel and families gather. The number of states reporting widespread...

Public health units all over Ontario have put on their creative thinking caps and come up with some very high tech, innovative ways to try to shorten lineups for the H1N1 vaccine...That information was badly needed Wednesday when, just hours...

We need to have trials in the UK, and to make them open and transparent," Professor Watson added. "We'd have to protect them, to stop them getting trashed. There are a whole range of situations in which science can play...

Andrew Lloyd Webber has been re-admitted to hospital after developing a "chronic infection" following surgery for prostate cancer. A statement on the theatre impresario's website said that although the operation was a success, the infection needs immediate treatment.