The Disciplinary Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has directed that the name of a Grimsby veterinary surgeon should be removed from the RCVS Register.
Mr Joseph Lennox Holmes, of Waltham Veterinary Clinic, Grimsby, faced nine charges relating to two separate complaints, at a two- hearing which commenced in October and resumed in January 2011.
A 15-minute brain scan could be used to test for autism, helping doctors diagnose the complex condition more quickly, cheaply and accurately. Declan Murphy, professor of psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London has developed the rapid test, with results proving more than 90 percent accurate in adults with similar results expects for children.
The tide of foreign-trained medics in the United Kingdom could put patients' lives at risk because some may have poor English language skills, experts have warned.
The warning comes after a survey by the General Medical Council found that only 37 percent of the 240,000-strong medical register declared themselves as white British.
Separate figures revealed that over 88,000 of that number were trained abroad.
US scientists believe they can produce a ready made supply of blood vessels for use in heart bypass surgery.
A study on baboons and dogs in Science Translational Medicine suggests vessels could be stored for up to a year and used by any patient.
Blood-carrying tubes can already be grown from a patient's own cells, but this takes several months.
UK experts said the research was exciting.
British scientists have developed the world's first reliable blood test for vCJD, which could reveal the true extent of the disease's prevalence in the population.
The breakthrough means large numbers of people could be sampled to give an accurate estimate of how many people are infected with the fatal brain disorder, which can remain dormant in humans for decades.
The new test is 100,000 times more sensitive than the current method, which involves extracting a small piece of tonsil tissue and analysing it.
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) is the human equivalent of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), which affects cattle.
