NHS trusts refuse to provide hip and knee surgery to the obese patients and promote exercise to reduce the budget of surgery.
As the pressure on NHS grows, overworked staff are calling in sick to cope with the ongoing crisis and cost the NHS budget more than £1 billion a year for sick pay.
NHS services for the growing numbers of children who have tried to harm themselves, commit suicide or having a breakdown is woefully substandard and risk prolonging their suffering.
Would you accept a heart or liver taken from livestock to save a life? Scientists are attempting to grow human organs in pigs and sheep to solve the issue of organ supply.
There are about 40,000 women in the United Kingdom that suffer maternal mental illness per year. Only 10,000 of them have access to proper treatment.
The charity group reiterated this fact amid reports of a number of pensioners being denied of the option to have cancer surgical treatments. Findings show that only 12 percent of older patients beyond the age of 75 rejected this treatment, while more than 14 percent of the younger cancer patients refused it, according to an article from the Press Reader. The data involves more than 1,000 cancer patients.
Pfizer's anti-smoking drug Champix does not raise the risk of depression, suicide and heart disease, according to a new study.