Dental patients feeling the bite
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A study reveals less than half of Scottish dentists are accepting new NHS patients
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By Kyung M. Song, Seattle Times  Feb. 2--Michael Coates is scheduled to lose eight of his teeth today. He can hardly wait.  "I just want my teeth pulled out so I can't feel pain anymore," Coates said.
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A doctor and his patient are facing off in a medical malpractice trial that has tongues wagging as much about the players as about what they are fighting over: Botox.
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Among health-care workers and relatives of the terminally ill, tales of patients who somehow &quot;held on&quot; past the holidays or birthdays are common.
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Implantable stimulators can blunt pain with electrical impulses, but they may come with negative side effects.
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When your dentist pulls an aching tooth he could be yanking out some of your memory at the same time, according to a new Swedish study to be presented in Stockholm.
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On a recent day at the busy Walnut Street Dental Clinic in Hagerstown, Md., Ilaya Rajagopal treated an 18-month-old who had six cavities and lectured the child's mother, in his gentle way, about the damage caused by putting a baby to bed with a bottle.
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It sounds like a freakish ailment from a horror movie: Sores erupt on your skin, mysterious threads pop out of them, and you feel like tiny bugs are crawling all over you. Some experts believe it's a psychiatric phenomenon, yet hundreds of people say it's a true physical condition. It's called Morgellons, and now the government is about to begin its first medical study of it.
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The shortage of NHS dentists is so great in some areas, patients are turning to hospitals for treatment.
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A group of health-care leaders are banding together to make hospitals a less dangerous place to get well.
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Doctors aren&#39;t afraid to say it: Practicing medicine has never been more difficult. General practitioners are under intense pressure to see dozens of patients daily.
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Patients in intensive care units are so busy being poked, prodded, jabbed and medicated that they rarely have time for sleep.
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Doctors try to balance a patient's trust with new technology.
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By Jonathan D. Epstein, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 10--Feeling some pain in your jaw? Your solution might be just around the corner, on a computer screen in Tonawanda.
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Help is at hand for foreign doctors working in Yorkshire whose patients complain of sore "lugholes" or say they're feeling "jiggered" and can't stop "gipping".
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For some people, it&#39;s going to the dentist or even the doctor. For others, it&#39;s a bumpy plane ride or even something more down to earth, like that household chore which comes around a little too often.
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Nine out of 10 nurses say they do not always have time to help ensure patients eat properly, a study finds.