The UN programme on HIV/Aids says HIV has become the leading cause of death and disease among women of reproductive age worldwide. At the start of a ten-day conference in New York, UNAids launched a five-year action plan addressing the gender issues which put women at risk. One of the key...

A health trust has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations after a woman was given an epidural anaesthetic in her arm. Mayra Cabrera died following her son’s birth in 2004 after Bupivacaine was mistakenly connected to her arm at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital....

A paramedic has been jailed for 12 months for lying about why he did not try to resuscitate a 30-stone man. Barry Baker, 59, had dialled 999 after collapsing at his Brighton home in November 2008. Paramedic Karl Harris, 45, said he could not resuscitate him because he was surrounded by...

A hospital in Essex where a severely disabled man died has admitted breaching health and safety law. Kyle Flack, 20, from Stanford-le-Hope, was found dead at Basildon University Hospital, on 12 October 2006. His head had become trapped in the rails surrounding his bed, an inquest heard in...

By Nick TriggleHealth reporter, BBC News New guidelines on what factors might mitigate against someone being prosecuted for helping another person to die are due to be released. A Law Lords ruling on an MS patient who wanted clarification on the possible prosecution of her husband forced the...