Cancer cells can be killed in blood before reaching healthy organs
Cancer cells can be destroyed in the bloodstream to prevent them from reaching healthy organs, scientists have found, in a breakthrough which could prevent 90 per cent of deaths.
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Your life in their hands: is the care.data NHS database a healthy step or a gross invasion of patient privacy?
Under the heading Better information means better care, this innocuous piece of paper will outline one of the biggest transformations of the way the NHS handles our confidential data for decades.
NHS Direct: 500 Jobs at Risk as Embattled Helpline Provider Shuts
Last year the company, which had been providing support of NHS 111 in some areas of England, announced it was to pull out of its contracts because of financial difficulties and in October the firm said it would shut up shop.
Nurses blame pressure of job for failure to deliver best care
MORE than half of nurses are working excess hours and feel under too much pressure to give the best care to patients, a survey reveals.
It’s a scandal drug trial results are still being withheld
The Commons public accounts committee’s report into the government’s handling of the UK’s £424m stockpile of the influenza drug Tamiflu, published last week, was damning.
Former Emmerdale star Roxanne Pallett reveals she almost lost a breast to skin cancer
The 31-year-old, who played Jo Sugden in the ITV1 soap, had to have emergency surgery after spotting a pea-sized mark near her nipple while taking a shower
How a strict diet of 800 calories a day can cure diabetes in weeks
Overweight patients who were put on a diet of just 800 calories a day were free of the disease within a few weeks of following the strict regime.
Good news! The average commute burns more than 300 calories a day (and is equivalent to a jam doughnut)
The average commuter burns 324 calories a day getting to and from work – the equivalent of a jam doughnut or a chocolate bar.
A cure for pancreatic cancer ‘could be available within ten years’, scientists claim
Scientists at the University of Cambridge believe they have found a treatment that could eradicate the disease in just one week.
My dog ate my face and left me blind but saved my life
A woman left blind when her pet dog chewed her face off can see again after 100 operations to restore her sight.