Debbie Lewis says she accepts that many people will have little sympathy for women who had PIP implants for breast enlargement - just one in 20 patients in Britain had the implants for reconstructive surgery following cancer.

BBC: PIP - one woman's story of replacing her leaking implants

While all of the following procedures are beneficial for some patients, controversy surrounds how often they should be done and on whom they should be performed.

FORBES: Is elective surgery overdone?

Their ultimate goal is to develop a fast technique that can be used to start repairing the heart on the operating table immediately following a heart attack, ultimately improving the survival rates for heart attack patients.

FORBES: Researchers Mend A Broken Heart

Eight wards remain closed at a hospital in Renfrewshire following the deaths of four patients who were being treated for a diarrhoea and vomiting bug.

BBC: Royal Alexandra Hospital

Given that fewer than half of the patients in the exercise group were actually following recommendations for physical activity by the end of the study -- par for the course with behavioral-intervention trials requiring lifestyle changes -- O'Connor says he wasn't disappointed that the benefits were small.

CNN: Moderate exercise safe, healthy for heart-failure patients

CATIE, which is following patients randomly assigned to an antipsychotic for two years, could finally settle the debate over whether there is an advantage--or a big risk--associated with any one of these necessary medicines, compared with the others.

FORBES: FDA Fix No. 4: Government-Funded Studies

Chief executive Ryan Howard plans to mine what he says is a database of 40 million patients by, for example, helping pharmaceutical companies enroll patients in clinical trials, or monitoring a drug following its release on the market.

FORBES: Free Electronic Health Record Provider Practice Fusion Raises Total $64 Million

Following the Care Quality Commission's recent report on what it called "alarmingly" poor care for elderly hospital patients, leading nurse Prof Ian Peate says in this week's Scrubbing Up that the profession should look again at how it trains people to look after older people.

BBC: 'Shame on us nurses'