The zombie health inspectors should be replaced with a risk commission
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: The only mystery in the banning of the re-run 'Go to work on an egg' ads is why the danger wasn't spotted earlier.
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A Bush administration import safety panel urged government agencies on Monday to work together to focus on the riskiest products in a "fundamental change" in import monitoring, following a spate of tainted or unsafe goods from China.
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Health officials said the measures would hugely disrupt public life, but they argued that they would be necessary.
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Now is the time to act on a constellation of problems impacting Africa. That is the view of the UK government's recently established Commission for Africa, which yesterday talked to specialists working in the ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the way it monitors safety risks associated with medicines already on the market, such as Merck &amp; Co.
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Hospital patients are being asked to become hygiene inspectors under plans announced by a health board.
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A leading member of the GAA suggests that health screening for young people should be investigated.
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The second body parts scandal in a year has federal health officials asking if they need to strengthen their oversight of the trade in human tissues and organs.
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Health secretary John Reid will today face universal condemnation from doctors and health professionals for failing to adopt the one public health measure in his white paper they say would save more lives than any other - a total smoking ban in enclosed
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The risks of a failure in America&#39;s flu vaccine supply system have been growing for a decade. Health officials led by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson ought
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Hubris can be harmful to your health, especially if that underwarranted confidence comes from drug manufacturers concerned more about obscene profits than protecting the consuming public from potential harm.
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The U.S. government should replace more than 1,000 irradiation machines used in hospitals and research facilities because terrorists could use the radioactive materials inside them to make "dirty" bombs, a government advisory panel has concluded.
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A presidential commission examining the care given to wounded U.S. service members yesterday recommended "fundamental changes"  aimed at simplifying the military's convoluted health-care bureaucracy and overhauling the veterans disability system for the first time in more than half a century.
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An expert warns vCJD could become endemic in the UK unless blood screening is introduced.
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The NHS is overburdened by inspections by at least 56 different bodies, a report has warned.
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Health and safety officials are urged to act after a report finds one in three industry deaths occur on building sites.
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Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable