Schoolchildren as young as 11 are selling the potentially lethal drug mephedrone to fellow pupils, according to the mother of a young woman who died after taking another 'legal high'.

The scientist who was sacked as the government's chief adviser on drugs has mocked Gordon Brown as someone whose views come from another "universe".

Doctor's Diary: James Le Fanu looks at the week's medical developments.

Bliss, one of our Christmas charities, has been helping keep newborns alive for 30 years and its work is as vital as ever.

Finger on the pulse: the barometer of improvement and progress that the general public measure things on is utterly different from that of doctors and nurses.

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30 November 2009 -- WHO now recommends earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy for adults and adolescents, the delivery of more patient-friendly antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), and prolonged use of ARVs to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. For the

Dr Foster report suggests 12 hospital trusts are "significantly underperforming", despite being highly rated by regulators.

Gabrielle Price, 14, died last week after taking mephedrone, a freely available 'legal high' that dealers sell with impunity. Ben Leach reports.

The death of former rugby international Will Greenwood's newborn baby moved him and his wife Caroline to support Bliss, a charity founded 30 years ago to care for premature and sick babies.

The three hospitals with the highest patient death rates in the country are named, amid a deepening crisis over the standard of care in the NHS.

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The chief executive of the NHS hospital where dozens of patients died after suffering an "appalling" lack of care is having an affair with its patient safety manager.