In the news

Serious, funny, sad, or encouraging. No matter what the news of the day, there's always something health-related to get us talking!

Here we investigate a current topic, and pull it apart to uncover a wide range of thoughts, opinions, comments, and more, which it encourages. Remember-anything goes, so get debating!"

• What will boosting A&E consultants and GPs do for the NHS?
• In response to Hunt's proposals last week, Joanna Lowy asks what effect this is going to have on the health service.
• Clinical trials: A history
• For International Clinical Trials Day, Joanna Lowy takes a journey into the past to see how clinical trials have helped shape medical history.
• IVF: A lasting legacy
• Joanna Lowy remembers a pioneering hero.
• Transparency in the NHS: How far can it go?
• Following on from the publication of heart surgery data, Joanna Lowy asks whether this can, and will, be rolled out across healthcare.
• What would happen if Sir David Nicholson were to resign?
• Many want this to happen, but would it really change anything, asks Joanna Lowy?
• Have we found a cure for HIV?
• Following reports of a cure this week, Joanna Lowy asks whether or not we should get excited.
• A wit fix
• In the last of a series, Jeanne Hambleton turns to laughter as the best medicine for Fibromyalgia.
• Investigating obesity
• Following on from last week's research that challenges the deprivation theory, Joanna Lowy asks: Just what is going on?
• What will the childcare reforms mean in reality?
• The childcare sector was up in arms last week at the proposals to cut the staff-child ratio. But just what will it mean in practice? Joanna Lowy investigates.
• A long wait to diagnosis
• In the third of a series, Jeanne Hambleton examines why some doctors do not make a fibromyalgia diagnosis.
• Weighing up a paperless NHS
• Joanna Lowy investigates the prospect of a digital health service.
• Is the NHS listening to feedback on the Friends and family test?
• Many within the NHS are unhappy about it, but the DoH are still pressing ahead with plans to roll out the Friends & Family test from April. So what is going on, asks Joanna Lowy?
• How to love your liver
• It's Love Your Liver month, but what are the best ways to do this? Joanna Lowy investigates.
• School shootings: The survivors
• What lies in store for the surviving victims of the Conneticut school shooting, asks Joanna Lowy?
• Taking control
• In the second of a series, Jeanne Hambleton explains how to help yourself with the invisible disability of fibromyalgia.