Britain’s leading fertility expert has condemned the IVF industry, saying that it had been corrupted by money and that doctors were exploiting women who were desperate to get pregnant.

A major breakthrough for people infected with AIDS is on the horizon, according to an editorial in this week’s BMJ.

The owner of a care home has angrily rejected a critical report by an industry watchdog. Alan Tarry, who runs Tarry’s in Herne Bay, is livid about a report by an inspector from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI).

The punishing financial implications of looking after a disabled or chronically ill relative are revealed in new research that shows almost three-quarters of people are worse off as a result of caring.

Five organisations representing 85% of NHS mental health staff have withdrawn from the united front campaigning against the government’s mental health bill.

Lancashire Social Services have branded the closure of a care home at six hours notice ‘appalling’ – and admitted they had no idea it was shutting.

A jury has returned a verdict of suicide on a 14-year-old boy who hanged himself in a privately run secure unit. Adam Rickwood became the youngest child to have died in penal custody for 25 years when he hanged himself with his shoelaces at the Hassockfield secure training centre in County Durham in August 2004.

Parents of children with congenital heart disease can now check surgery survival rates at the UK’s 13 specialist heart centres online. The initiative comes 10 years after the inquiry into the unnecessary deaths of babies treated at Bristol’s Royal Infirmary in the 1980s and 1990s.