A CONTROVERSIAL new medium secure unit for convicted criminals and mental health patients in Birmingham looks set to be up and running by the early part of 2012, health chiefs have revealed.Read
BIRMINGHAM Blood Donor Centre celebrated ten years of saving thousands of lives by thanking the selfless volunteers who roll up their sleeve time and time again.Read
TWO thirds of heart attack patients in the West Midlands are missing out on life-saving service to return them back to normal health, according to a damning new report.Read
TWO thirds of heart attack patients in the West Midlands are missing out on life-saving service to return them back to normal health, according to a damning new report.Read
A FLAGSHIP GP Surgery in north Birmingham has become the first in the UK to take additional steps to protect patients and staff from the spread of swine flu by fitting a special air steriliser.Read
PUPILS who suffer from asthma are being put at unnecessary risk as Birmingham schools are not equipped with emergency kits, according to a leading campaigner.Read
BIRMINGHAM medics have saved the lives of two African boys after a pioneering mercy mission to carry out the first ever live kidney transplant on children in the sub-Sahara region.Read
BIRMINGHAM medics have saved the lives of two African boys after a mercy mission to carry out the first ever live kidney transplant on children in the sub-Sahara region.Read
STROKES are costing the West Midlands economy a staggering £83.9 million a year with the poorest working class people three times more likely to die, a new report revealed today.Read
MASKED robbers attacked a man and woman at the back of a Bromsgrove pub in broad daylight, forcing the female victim to be hospitalised with facial injuries.Read
BOSSES at Midland fun park Alton Towers have banned Speedos and other types of tight swimming trunks at the Staffordshire site – on grounds of taste.Read
POLICE today made a fresh appeal to solve the murder of a Midland man who was stabbed to death at his home while his six-year-old son slept upstairs.Read
MORE than 50 medical beds at two Birmingham hospitals could be downgraded and leased out as holding bays for elderly bed-blockers in a new move by health bosses.Read
FOR Strictly Come Dancing addicts, this vibrant dance delight starring the show’s favourite couple Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova was a quick fix until it returns in the Autumn.Read
FOR Strictly Come Dancing addicts, this vibrant dance delight starring the show’s favourite couple Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova was a quick fix until it returns in the Autumn.Read
Alison Dayani is Health Correspondent on the Birmingham Mail but also covers general news, features, music and theatre. As a trained video journalist, she provides footage of events and health stories for the website too.
