Latest NewsStay updated with the latest news and updates
Government-ordered review reveals ‘routine ostracism’ of Jewish staff and patients in health serviceThe NHS is taking action to tackle antisemitism after a government-ordered report found that Jewish...
A new ovarian cancer treatment has been approved for use on the NHS for the first time in 20 years.
Research suggests NHS trusts with higher empathy ratings also benefit financially and have improved staff wellbeingPatients and staff fare better at hospitals that rank highly on empathy, research sug...
Elahere is first new drug for chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer to be approved by NHS for 20 yearsHundreds of women with hard-to-treat ovarian cancer can now be offered a new life-prolonging treat...
Health secretary announces expansion of Transform trial but does not back population-wide testingThousands more black men will be invited to take part in a prostate cancer screening trial as the healt...
NHS bosses giving evidence to public accounts committee admit current position is unacceptableGPs in England are so “overloaded” that they cannot help older people who are at risk of falling in what N...
Patients with knee arthritis who took medications for at least three years at reduced risk of needing surgeryTaking weight-loss drugs for at least three years could prevent thousands of knee replaceme...
Scotland, Liverpool and Celtic great Sir Kenny Dalglish confirms he is undergoing treatment for cancer.
The health secretary has decided only a few thousand men at high risk of getting prostate cancer will be offered targeted screening for the disease.
Four people were hospitalised and there were more than 140 cases of sickness and diarrhoea in Devon.
Durvalumab shows promising results in trial led by London-based Institute of Cancer ResearchDoctors are hailing a drug that spares bladder cancer patients “life-changing” surgery and stops tumours com...
Utility company pleaded guilty to criminal offence of supplying water unfit for humans‘My son is still suffering’: the ill effects of water contamination in ‘Brixham incident’A utility company has bee...
Football legend Sir Kenny Dalglish has revealed he has cancer.
Experimental tablet produces encouraging results in patients with world’s most common forms of disease• ‘I was getting ready to say goodbye’: patient’s hope after smart drug successA smart drug that s...
Pat Brogan preparing to walk his daughter down the aisle after trial of treatment designed to stop disease from hiding• Smart drug that strips cancer cells of ‘invisibility cloak’ can shrink tumours b...
Former England and Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan says he is responding well to treatment for stage four cancer - and his doctor is a Liverpool supporter.
Modernisation bill would require GPs and hospitals in England to share data, reducing errors and duplicationSharing access to patients’ health data across NHS providers in England could result in 20,0...
A new pill helped to double the survival time for patients with an advanced and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer when compared to chemotherapy, a trial has found.
A new pill helped to double the survival time for patients with an advanced and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer when compared to chemotherapy, a trial has found.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus makes appeal after protests against protocols for handling victims’ bodies in Ituri provinceContaining the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo requires commun...