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Doctors treating Ashya King have defended their decision not to send the five-year-old for proton beam therapy.
The parents of a five-year-old brain cancer patient, who took him out of hospital without doctors’ consent, remain in custody in Spain after they told the court they did not want to be extradited.
Nurse William Pooley, the first Briton to contract Ebola in Sierra Leone, is an “extraordinary guy” who was working at the “ground zero” of the outbreak, his colleague tells Channel 4 News.
A Briton infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone is being evacuated to the UK, the African country’s health ministry says.
A Lancet article says there are problems with clinical trial data for alteplase, a frontline medicine given to up to 20 per cent of those suffering strokes in England every year.
Jimmy Savile subjected hospital patients to “truly awful” sexual abuse for more than four decades, a series of chilling reports reveals.
Nurses vote overwhelmingly against charging patients a fee for appointments with their family doctor. Do you think you should pay to see a GP, if it saves the NHS money? Vote in our poll.
Victoria Macdonald
The researcher and author, Roger Kline, recently published a report he called The Snowy White Peaks of the NHS – It could not have been more apt a title.
An NHS watchdog recommends a ratio of no more than eight patients for every hospital nurse. But the target will not be mandatory.
Millions of patients are going to be able to see their family doctors outside of work hours thanks to a new fund to extend GP opening times, the prime minister announces.
Scientists conclude there is insufficient evidence to back the government’s decision to stockpile the drug Tamiflu to tackle pandemics such as the outbreak of swine flu in 2009.
The big tobacco firms are on the warpaths as the government says it wants Australian-style plain packaging. What does the evidence say?
The government says it wants to change the law to force the tobacco giants to introduce standardised packaging before the end of this parliament.
Harvey Parry survived meningitis B, but lives with a disability. Now children are to be given a jab to protect against it – provided the government can negotiate a price with manufacturer Novartis.
The UK has one of the highest stillbirth rates in the industrialised world. But now a team from Manchester has published data which shows certain ethnic groups are more susceptible than others.