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Victoria Climbie died from abuse and neglect in February 2000 An online system to identify children who may be in danger of abuse or neglect is to be created for use in hospitals across England. The 9m Child Protection Information System will alert doctors and nurses in accident and emergency departments if children are known to be at risk or had urgent treatment at...

Tell-tale shrinkage of the frontal and temporal lobes on an MRI scan Scientists say they have found a way to distinguish between different types of dementia without the need for invasive tests, like a lumbar puncture. US experts could accurately identify Alzheimer's disease and another type of dementia from structural brain patterns on medical scans, Neurology reports....

It is hoped the UK medics can help when natural disasters strike UK doctors, nurses and surgeons will be able to register ways they might help in the event of an overseas disaster, the government has announced. Medical professionals who want to deploy to emergencies will now be able to put their names on the International Emergency Trauma Register (UKIETR). It is hoped...

The retina sits at the back of the eye and houses the cells that provide us with vision A simple eye test may offer a fast and easy way to monitor patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), medical experts say in the journal Neurology. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a scan that measures the thickness of the lining at the back of the eye – the retina. It takes...

A small amount of absolute alcohol was injected to produce a small controlled heart attack UK doctors have saved a man's life using an unconventional treatment – a shot of neat alcohol into the arteries supplying his heart. Ronald Aldom, 77, from Portishead near Bristol, had an unusual heart rhythm called ventricular tachychardia that can be fatal if left...

UK researchers believe they have explained why some families are incredibly vulnerable to bowel cancer. They have found two genes, which are passed from parent to child, that greatly increase the risk of a tumour forming. The study, published in Nature Genetics, analysed DNA from 20 people with a strong family history. The findings could be used to develop a test to judge...

Cannabis can offer pain relief to some people Cannabis makes pain more bearable rather than actually reducing it, a study from the University of Oxford suggests. Using brain imaging, researchers found that the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis reduced activity in a part of the brain linked to emotional aspects of pain. But the effect on the pain experienced varied...

Vulnerable patients were left starving and thirsty, a solicitor for the families said in a statement Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he is "disgusted and appalled" at accounts of patient neglect at a hospital in Worcestershire. It was claimed in one case an 84-year-old man starved to death at Redditch's Alexandra Hospital in 2009. Worcestershire Acute...

Vulnerable patients were left starving and thirsty, a solicitor for the families said in a statement Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he is "disgusted and appalled" at accounts of patient neglect at a hospital in Worcestershire. The Sunday Telegraph has reported that in the worst instance of mistreatment at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch a patient...

The prince called for society to adopt a more holistic approach to health The Prince of Wales has called for a national health service with more compassion. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Prince Charles called for a service that accounts for "the core human elements of mind, body and spirit" as well as disease. He urged medical professionals...