The Health Secretary has won the right to see his NHS reform Bill be given the chance to work, says Norman Tebbit.

You're more likely to die if admitted to hospital during the weekend. It's a shocking truth, and one that's explored further in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine today. Last year, as Pete blogged at the time, the 2011 Dr Foster Hospital Guide discovered that emergency patients are 10 per cent more likely to die if admitted at the weekend. Today's report goes further ...

The newly agreed 'fiscal pact' in reality provides no kind of fiscal solidarity between the signing countries and it will not deliver unless the EU moves from European governance to European government, writes Joan Marc Simon from Democracia Global in Spain. More »

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, commenting on the Royal College of Radiologists adopting a position of outright opposition to the Health and Social Care Bill, in addition to reports that the College of Emergency Medicine has reiterated its serious concern today, said:

Euro needs more than 'Made in Germany' medicine

Leading voices in medicine say current policies not going far enough to prevent deaths from alcohol-related diseases.

Leading voices in medicine tell MPs current policies not going far enough to prevent thousands of deaths from alcohol-related diseases every year.

[Declaration: for the last nine years I worked in an academic research laboratory, developing therapies for inherited disorders that cause blindness. During this time I worked with animal models to help our improve our understanding of disease mechanisms and to act as a test-bed for new therapies]. The sparsely-attended adjournment debate on Wednesday secured by

Findings from the Office of Fair Trading suggest that trust in the private healthcare system may be misplaced due to a network of questionable alliances and incentives

Red balloons will be released, vigil candles lit and heads of state will recall those who have fallen victim to HIV/Aids on the 24th World Aids Day, to be held this week. Thirty years after the first reported diagnoses of Aids – then tantamount to a death sentence – one remarkable fact highlights the advances medicine has made: the number of people living with HIV has reached a record ...