A report claims, NHS treatment watchdog’s acting contrary to the recommendations of a government inquiry, has resulted in patient’s being denied access to drugs for rarer cancers.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), an analysis by the Rarer Cancers Forum (RCF) suggests is failing to follow guidelines meant for improving access to end-of-life cancer treatments.

According to Macmillan Cancer Support, a leading cancer charity, cancer patients at the end of their lives are losing out on millions of pounds worth of benefit payments.

It said, every year around £8 million in disability benefits go unclaimed by people diagnosed with terminal cancer in Scotland, but the situation has improved since 2004 when only £15million went unclaimed.

While, terminally ill cancer patients are automatically entitled to these benefits, Macmillan said 32% of people dying from cancer did not claim Disability Living Allowance or Attendance Allowance.

A British fertility clinic is holding a raffle this week, with first prize a human egg by way or promoting its ‘baby profiling’ service, it insists is permitted under UK law.

The winner of London Bridge Fertility, Gynaecology and Genetics Centre’s prize draw is allowed to select the egg donor by education, upbringing and racial background, with the treatment taking place in the US.

The seminar to be held on Wednesday is open to all women interested in having an in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) baby.

The deaths of four children who underwent heart operations in recent months are being investigated, with all children’s cardiac surgery at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford suspended till the investigation is concluded. The children had congenital heart problems and had been receiving care for some time before their operations.

In the meantime, the parents of 26 children awaiting heart surgery at the hospital will be contacted and those scheduled for operations will be transferred elsewhere.

NHS figures reveal there has been a 65% increase in the number of under-18s in UK receiving treatment for cocaine addiction.

The figures released today coincide with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) announcement of a review into the effects of the drug, purely based on a separate set of statistics that show there has been a five-fold increase in cocaine use since 1996, amongst 16 to 59-year-olds.

The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse conducting the NHS study found numbers of 18 to 24-year-olds receiving treatment has doubled since 2005.

According to new research, one in three hospital trusts are in the red, resulting in their reducing the number of operation performed.

Because, primary care trusts are over the budget and running a deficit, casualty departments are also facing the axe, despite the Department of Health’s record 2010 budget of around £100 billion.

According to a nutrition watchdog, cinema-goers must be warned about the number of calories contained in popular snacks like popcorn, aerated drinks and ice-cream.

Calling on cinemas to tackle the obesity crisis, the Food Standards Agency is extremely concerned that portion sizes offered to filmgoers in cinema halls are getting out of control.

It claims a large bag of sweetened popcorn contains as much as 1,800 calories, which is the equivalent of a large curry with extras washed down with two bottles of beer.

Plans are afoot by the UK government to restrict foreigners’ access to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), in other words known as health tourism.

The Health Department will be holding consulting talks on whether to make it mandatory for visitors to the U. K. to have health insurance before they travel, including whether cancelling the asylum seekers entitlement to free health care, who after failing in their bid to remain in UK are refusing to cooperate with the U. K. Border Agency.