A suspended NHS doctor has been charged with inviting support for Hamas, marking a significant…
Five NHS trusts, ranked as the worst-performing in England, will be placed under intensive government…
Nearly one in five NHS organisations in England are formally rationing crucial hip and knee…
Doctors in England will stage a six-day walkout in April in an escalating dispute over…
A pioneering medical device now being introduced across NHS hospitals in Scotland could save the…
A stark and growing generational rift lies at the heart of public attitudes towards the…
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Fatima Maada Bio, the first lady of Sierra Leone, has denied supporting female genital mutilation…
Independent readers responding to the assisted dying bill returning to the Commons shared deeply personal…
Britain’s global leadership on women’s rights is being undermined by deep cuts to overseas aid,…
The NHS offered to deliver a single 50p pill via taxi service in what critics…
The Supreme Court has dismantled a decade-old system of human rights protections for disabled people,…
Dietary choices have a remarkably restricted influence on both the prevention and treatment of the…
For weeks, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway talked up the body diversity they had fought…
Fake health advice online can be fatal, a documentary reveals, as an investigation uncovers a…
The widely held belief that ageing only becomes a concern after turning 50 is fundamentally…
Red meat consumption shows no significant link to fatty liver disease overall, according to a…
For millions of people across the UK, the arrival of spring is no longer a…
Weight-loss drugs may offer a double benefit for patients with common chronic conditions, new research…
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has approved a new immunotherapy drug…
A Liverpool woman has told how a single injection of an unregulated weight loss drug…
Art history reveals that for most of human civilisation, obesity was not a source of…
Hundreds more children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) can now access life-changing NHS treatments after…
Neanderthals were drilling into each other’s teeth to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago, in…