Cuts to social services have “totally neglected” the needs of disabled people and created a “human catastrophe”, the chairwoman of a UN human rights committee has said. Theresia Degener, who leads the UN’s Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), accused British politicians of failing vulnerable members of society. UK officials have also…
Children who suffer from cow’s milk allergy could benefit from better treatment after a breakthrough in diagnosing the painful condition. Experts hope new guidance for GPs will transform the experience of thousands of families unable to establish what is causing them to have a “miserable baby”. The UK has one of the highest rates of…
Thousands of cases of dementia could be prevented by increasing levels of lithium in tap water, a major new study has suggested. Scientists at the University of Copenhagen compared dementia rates to the natural quantities of lithium in water for more than 800,000 people in Denmark, from areas occupied by nearly half of the population. They found that in places…
More than 100 Hightop kits, which have not met EU regulations, seized as agency warns consumers against using them More than 100 HIV home-testing kits have been seized by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) amid fears over their reliability. The agency believes it has seized all stock of the Hightop HIV/Aids…
New guidelines have been issued for hospital doctors who treat pregnant women with diabetes. The new Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care (JBDS–IP) document has been drawn up in a bid to improve the standard of care for people with diabetes in secondary care. Many women with diabetes require hospital admissions during their pregnancy, but not all doctors and healthcare teams in maternity wards are experts…