For his wife's medical notes, which stated `do not resuscitate', a hospital has been taken to court by a widower. He stated that this was illegal.

David Tracey's wife Janet did not know that there were two such notices and for this Tracey is suing the hospital.

Due to increasing demands of nurses' time and cuts in budget, about 50,000 low-paid and unregulated assistants are carrying out the job of trained nurses, reports state.

In a noteworthy announcement at the ARM TechCon summit in Santa Clara on Thursday, it was revealed that a new group - called the Linaro Enterprise Group - has been formed for speeding up the rate of development of software on ARM Holdings' RISC (Reduced Instruction Set) chips.

Sam Yates does not have much time. She needs a double lung transplant and is just 27-years-old. Doctors have informed her that her lungs are now at the end-stage.

Her deteriorating condition has made her ready to accept lungs from extended criteria donors. This includes all those who have been suffering from brain tumour, heavy smokers and people who have been suffering from viral infections.

A meeting will be held of the board of Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust and there will be many topics covered at the meet including the progress towards becoming an NHS Foundation Trust. The meeting takes place on October 25.

Everyone is invited to be a part of the discussions. Especially those who have shown interest in being a part of the emerging Foundation Trust by signing up for it.

At the 21st USENIX Security Symposium in Seattle earlier this month, University of Oxford scientist Ivan Martinovic delivered a talk about the currently-theoretical-only possibility of ‘mind hackers’ covertly obtaining secret information from people’s brainwaves.

A court heard yesterday that about £8,000 was made by a doctor on sick leave by moonlighting.

Lucy Dawson could not turn up for her A&E job as she was tired and stressed out due to her secret work that got her an £800-a-day locum.