Millions mark UN hand-washing day

Every  20 second a mother mourns a dead child lost to diarrhea - a completely preventable and utterly inexcusable cause of  death. Each year 1.5 million children under the age of five years die from...

Clostridium difficile kills ten patients a day

For over 30 years patients have been going into hospital for a cure only to be killed by the superbug Clostridium difficile. In 2004 there were 43,000 cases and in 2006 there were 66,000 cases, approximately 10%...