The NHS has spent more than £3 million over the past five years removing foreign objects from patients’ rectums, new…
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Philanthropist Melinda French Gates has pledged an additional $215 million to expand her global work on women’s health, taking her…
A new ovarian cancer drug offers hope to hundreds of women in England whose disease has stopped responding to chemotherapy,…
Feeling older than your actual age is linked to poor sleep quality, according to a new study that suggests the…
Doctors are hailing a new combination of treatments that spares patients with aggressive bladder cancer the need for life-changing surgery…
A new personalised mRNA vaccine, when combined with the immunotherapy drug Keytruda, halves the risk of melanoma recurring within five…
A New Weapon Against Pancreatic Cancer A new daily pill has doubled the survival time of patients with pancreatic cancer,…
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has seized approximately 12,000 doses of unlicensed weight loss medicines in its…
A vascular surgeon has been struck off for self-inflicting amputations for sexual gratification. Neil Hopper, 50, a former consultant at…
A pioneering treatment offers new hope for patients with inoperable liver tumours, after a 92-year-old great-grandmother became the first person…