Myth Drannor » doctors

Record ‘legal highs detected’

BBC News - Health — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:46:35 +0000

A record number of potentially dangerous new legal highs were found in Europe last year, say doctors.

Defying the odds of medicine

BBC News - Health — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:38:36 +0000

How Stephen Hawking has defied doctors for nearly 50 years

VIDEO: ‘Miracle baby’ to be sent home

BBC News - Health — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:45:21 +0000

Doctors in California are preparing to send home one of the smallest premature babies ever to survive anywhere in the world.

United fan ‘made ill by matches’

BBC News - Health — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:45:11 +0000

The unusual symptoms suffered by a football fan during big games helped doctors spot a potentially severe condition.

VIDEO: Conjoined twins separated in Chile

BBC News - Health — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:49:08 +0000

Doctors in Chile say they have successfully separated 10-month-old conjoined twins.

Many diabetes deaths ‘avoidable’

BBC News - Health — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:35:47 +0000

Up to 24,000 deaths from diabetes could be avoided in England every year, if patients and doctors controlled the condition better, a report suggests.

Too many headers ‘damage brain’

BBC News - Health — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:36:26 +0000

Frequently heading a football can lead to brain injury, warn doctors who say they have found evidence on brain scans.

Doctors call for car smoking ban

BBC News - Health — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:13:27 +0000

All smoking in cars should be banned across the UK to protect people from second-hand smoke, doctors say.

VIDEO: Homemade machine helps boy walk

BBC News - Health — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:20:47 +0000

A seven-year-old Argentine boy has defied doctors’ predictions that he would never walk, with help from a homemade rehabilitation device built by his father.

Stayin’ alive – does music have a role in CPR?

BBC News - Health — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:31:36 +0000

Performing chest compressions to a musical beat should not take place and further research in the field should stop, say doctors.