LONDON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- British Conservatives said the Labor party isn't doing enough to keep pests such mice, rats and bedbugs out of National Health Service hospitals.

LONDON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- About 70,000 British "health tourists" a year fly to India and other countries for surgery.

LONDON, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Nearly half of England's National Health Service hospitals are purposefully delaying surgeries to save money, The Sunday Telegraph reported.

LONDON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Hospitals in Britain, trying to balance their books, are denying surgeries for ailments such as varicose veins, wisdom teeth and bad backs, documents show.

LONDON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Hospitals in Britain have been told to hold off operating on some patients until they've been on a waiting list for 20 weeks, documents show.

LONDON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Britain's Conservative party and a hospital workers union have objected to a proposal to open a hospital's radiotherapy unit to dogs and cats with cancer. Hospital worker's union, Unison, has objected to the debt-ridden National Health Service hospital's

LONDON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- An e-mail from a top official with Britain's Department of Health obtained by The Observer reveals acute financial problems in the National Health Service.

CHICAGO, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Old-fashioned medical claims processing -- doctors handwriting codes for procedures on hardcopy files -- is gradually being replaced by digital physicians netwo

LONDON, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Britain's chief medical Officer told doctors in the country to prepare for the worst when, not if, the bird flu pandemic breaks out.