Matron is the job title of a very senior nurse in several countries, including the United Kingdom.

A theatre nurse who died after wrongly having a drug used in epidurals pumped into her arm was unlawfully killed, an inquest jury has ruled. Mayra Cabrera, 30, died shortly after giving birth to son Zac at the Great Western Hospital, Swindon, on 11 May 2004. The baby survived. Her 38-year-old husband Arnel now faces deportation to the Philippines.

Women training in several hospitals in England have raised objections to removing their arm coverings in theatre and to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands, because it is regarded as immodest in Islam. The measure is deemed necessary to stop the spread of infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile, which have killed hundreds.

Let's say it's 6.15 pm and you're driving home (alone ) after an unusually hard day on the work.You're really tired, and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only five miles from the hospital nearest your home.

Thanks to the fact that he was armed & prepared to defend himself, an armed man bound to a wheelchair in Atlanta Georgia, was able to fight off a man who attacked him just outside his home. He is alive & uninjured, but the status of his attacker is unknown other than he was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds in his arm & chest . . .

Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and police. "The siege is total," says Dr Kamal in Fallujah Hospital as he grimly lists his needs, which include everything from drugs and oxygen to electricity and clean water