Norovirus has stranded over 1,700 passengers and crew in Bordeaux after a British cruise ship was forced to dock in…
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A grieving mother who lost her newborn daughter to a heart defect and then underwent surgery for her own heart…
Deadly outbreak on South Atlantic expedition ship Three people have died and 11 others have fallen ill in an outbreak…
A 21-year-old student nurse was diagnosed with aggressive leukaemia at 19 after GPs initially suspected she had diabetes, and has…
England will screen 750,000 newborns for spinal muscular atrophy as part of a landmark study to determine whether the genetic…
Venous leg ulcers have doubled in prevalence over the past decade, leaving an estimated half a million people across the…
Shoppers will soon find cancer symptom advice printed directly onto Morrisons own-brand bath and shower products, as the supermarket becomes…
Angela Rayner breached the Ministerial Code by failing to pay the correct amount of stamp duty on a flat she…
Six confirmed cases of hantavirus, including three deaths, have been linked to an outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius,…
Men are turning to a dangerous practice known as ‘ballmaxxing’ – inflating their scrotums with saline solution – despite stark…