Jonathan Miller
If we weren’t living in such dangerous times, West Africa’s Ebola emergency would not have to do battle with the Islamic State and a belligerent Vladimir Putin to grab world attention.
Ashya King’s parents made the headlines after going to extraordinary lengths to find treatment for him at the Proton Therapy Centre in Prague – but will it help Ashya?
Some child brain cancers grow very quickly so a diagnosis just a few weeks earlier can make a huge difference to a child’s prospects.
Victoria Macdonald
The rich and middle-aged should be taxed more to pay for the NHS and social care, a new report suggests.
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.
Cheese, butter, clotted cream and a brick sized rib-eye steak. Delicious… but it’s also all good for you – and can even help you lose weight. Complete fantasy? Not according to a new book.
An intellectual punch-up is brewing in the medical community, as a think tank says it is not eating too much that causes obesity, but lack of exercise – something some doctors call “laughable”.
West Africa’s raging epidemic of Ebola virus is an “extraordinary event” and now constitutes an international risk, the World Health Organisation says, as the number of deaths rise to 961.
Jackie Long
There has been no fury and no barracking – but in the House of Lords ferocity belies what is being said. The debate? The right to die.
Jackie Long
With the assisted dying bill due to be debated on Friday, what impact will Lord Carey’s controversial intervention make?
No doctor would argue they shouldn’t be more vigilant for common types of cancer. However some cancers are much harder to spot than others.
Antibiotics have revolutionised modern medicine. But bacteria are fighting back. And the need to find new drugs is urgent, warns the World Health Organisation.
Half of all people diagnosed with cancer today will still be alive in 10 years’ time, new analysis says – but a closer look finds big gaps in life expectancy for different types of cancer.
Victoria Macdonald
An unusually high number of reports on the care system in England are being released this week – all of them are urging a rethink of the way health and care are delivered.
Cathy Newman
First George Osborne tells us 2014 is a year for “hard truths”, and now Jeremy Hunt calls for some “national soul-searching” about obesity.