Electronic cigarettes could save hundreds of thousands of lives, according to their makers. So why are many health experts opposed to them? Enjoli Liston hears the arguments
Tamiflu maker accused of secrecy over trial data
Tuesday 17 January 2012
The drug is a household name with millions of doses stockpiled against the threat of a potential flu pandemic and talked about alongside aspirin and penicillin as a wonder drug.
![While the demands of modern life have seen most of us spending longer hours at a computer, for some it has become an overriding obsession While the demands of modern life have seen most of us spending longer hours at a computer, for some it has become an overriding obsession](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118172756im_/http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article6288292.ece/ALTERNATES/w80/pg-8-internet-alamy.jpg)
Internet games cause the same effects as drugs
Thursday 12 January 2012
Internet addiction has for the first time been linked with changes in the brain similar to those seen in people addicted to alcohol, cocaine and cannabis.
NHS mergers 'solve nothing'
Thursday 12 January 2012
Hospital mergers do not benefit patients and are unlikely to be the most effective way to deal with financial problems, a government report says.
Letters: Skills crisis in NHS chemotherapy
Thursday 12 January 2012
This Government has frequently denied planning to privatise the NHS (letters, 5 January). There are many examples that disprove their view, including the arrangements for the provision of chemotherapy.
![While the demands of modern life have seen most of us spending longer hours at a computer, for some it has become an overriding obsession While the demands of modern life have seen most of us spending longer hours at a computer, for some it has become an overriding obsession](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118172756im_/http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article6288292.ece/ALTERNATES/w80/pg-8-internet-alamy.jpg)
Addicted! Scientists show how internet dependency alters the human brain
Thursday 12 January 2012
Internet addiction has for the first time been linked with changes in the brain similar to those seen in people addicted to alcohol, cocaine and cannabis. In a groundbreaking study, researchers used MRI scanners to reveal abnormalities in the brains of adolescents who spent many hours on the internet, to the detriment of their social and personal lives. The finding could throw light on other behavioural problems and lead to the development of new approaches to treatment, researchers said.
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Implants bill for NHS 'is unfair', says Andrew Lansley
Wednesday 11 January 2012
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said today he did not think it was fair to the taxpayer for the NHS "to foot the bill" for patients who had private PIP breast implant operations.
NHS pays out £1m to manager in race case
Tuesday 10 January 2012
A former NHS manager has won £1m in compensation after a head nurse subjected him to such racial discrimination that he considered suicide after being dismissed unfairly.
'False' savings from legal aid cuts
Tuesday 10 January 2012
Radical proposals to curtail legal aid are based on false economy and should be halted until all the unintended consequences are properly calculated, a new report by King's College London (KCL) warns.
Report highlights 'knock-on costs' of legal aid cuts
Monday 09 January 2012
The Government's planned cuts to legal aid in clinical negligence cases could cost the NHS almost three times more than is saved by the Ministry of Justice, a report said today.
'Transform' refuse to offer women implant replacements
Monday 09 January 2012
A leading cosmetic surgery firm is refusing to offer women with PIP breast implants free removal and replacement.
![President of Poly Implant Prothèse, Jean-Claude Mas, says he has no regrets President of Poly Implant Prothèse, Jean-Claude Mas, says he has no regrets](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118172756im_/http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article6286291.ece/ALTERNATES/w80/IA07-7-implant.jpg)
Clinics told to pay for removal of substandard breast implants
Saturday 07 January 2012
Health Secretary says NHS will help women and private sector has a 'moral duty' to do the same
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Teachers reject final Government pension offer
Friday 06 January 2012
The Government remained embroiled in a row over public sector pensions tonight after failing to win the endorsement of its final offer from the country's biggest teaching unions.
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From Afghanistan to the ambulance: the warzone drug that will save hundreds of lives
Friday 06 January 2012
The first drug approved under new 'medicines innovation scheme', TXA can stem fatal bleeding
Alert over implants spreads to men's chest enhancements
Friday 06 January 2012
Doctors warn the scandal exposes the risks of opening healthcare up to private firms