“Knee surgery to treat osteoarthritis may be a waste of time and money”, said The Daily Telegraph today. It explained that the results of new research suggest that
A few days ago we looked at The Guardian’s health news predictions for 2014. So we decided to see if we could better the newspaper’s efforts by providing our own health predictions for 2015…
In 2015, Behind the Headlines covered more than 500 health stories that made it into the mainstream media. If you've been paying attention, you should find this quiz easy and fun...
Article on media coverage of an operation to replace a woman's damaged windpipe with one grown in a laboratory from her stem cells.
Probiotics containing 'benign bacteria' could be used to protect critically ill patients from developing pneumonia, BBC News said today. The news story said that
A UK military healthcare worker who was infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone has been flown home and is being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London...
News article about two studies looking at the mental and economic effects of home testing on newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients
Although Behind the Headlines often spends time explaining mistaken or misguided news reports, the joy of this service is when there are genuinely exciting medical advances to report.
A round-up of the oddest health news stories of 2011, as analysed by NHS Choices Behind the Headlines.