For health minister Rosie Winterton, emergency care provision is 'holding up this winter and taking it in its stride'.

The carbon monoxide diffusing capacity test (D(LCO)) is a commonly performed pulmonary function test that requires technical expertise and attention to detail to get acceptable results. With the advent of automated devices and powerful computer programs, D(LCO) measurement has rapidly gained wide clinical acceptance. But there are many subtle aspects to performing the test that can diminish its...

Recently I chaired a conference hosted by the National Council for Palliative Care focusing on the issues of comorbidity and dying with dignity. Being a conference chair is one sure way of concentrating your mind and thoughts on speaker presentations because you have to pick up the threads, link speakers together and summarise the conference.

A conserved feature of proliferating cells is their need to divide at the appropriate time and place using precise positioning mechanisms to ensure that each daughter cell has the same genetic complement as the parent, as well as the correct shape and size. In rod-shaped bacteria, division typically occurs precisely at midcell after the bacterial chromosome has replicated and segregated away fr...

Infants use a region on the right side of their brain to distinguish between human faces and objects.