A classically trained pianist has died penniless after government assessors deemed him fit for work and stripped him of his benefits – despite doctors explaining he needed a new heart.
A woman who lost both parents to cancer in the space of two years is running the London Marathon to help raise awareness and funds for research.
The ambulance service is on the verge of “breaking down” because staff are suffering high levels of stress amid long working hours and tight targets, according to a new report.
Some common painkillers used by millions of people can increase the risk of an irregular heartbeat which can lead to heart attacks and strokes, new research suggests.
The thymus, which is critical for immune function, becomes smaller and less effective with age, making people more susceptible to infection.
Scientists in the USA have completed the first successful implants of lab-grown vaginal organs, in four women with a rare condition who were born without a vagina.
Prostate cancer tests, which predict how aggressive a tumour is, underestimate disease severity in half of cases, scientists say.
Air pollution may have been responsible for more than 2,000 deaths in Scotland in a single year, according to health professionals.
Hundreds of millions of pounds may have been wasted on a drug for flu that works no better than paracetamol, a landmark analysis has said.
Police have arrested a grandfather of 83 on suspicion of poisoning his frail wife after he gave her a pain-killing patch to alleviate her aches and pains
