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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM FEBRUARY 25, 2025: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting leaves 10 Downing Street after attending the weekly Cabinet meeting in London, United Kingdom on February 25, 2025. (Photo credit should read Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Young men must be taught it's OK to feel and to ask for help, Wes Streeting says

Politics 57 minutes ago By Craig Munro

Man sitting on couch experiencing abdominal pain holding stomach. Wearing casual clothing and showing visible discomfort. Concept of stomachache, digestive issues, or health concerns.

Toxin caused by common stomach bug could be driving up rates of bowel cancer

Health 20 hours ago By Josh Milton

X-ray image of the intestine in the tablet. Gadget in the hands of the doctor close-up. The concept of telemedicine and diagnosis of diseases.

Breakthrough bowel cancer test could cut out need for colonoscopies for good

UK 1 day ago By Josh Milton

A newborn baby in a maternity hospital unit receiving care.

NHS pays out staggering sum to parents of baby left with severe brain damage

UK 3 days ago By Luke Alsford

Adam and Lucy Isaac with their son Rafferty (11 weeks old), at home in Sonning, Berkshire. During pregnancy Rafferty was surgically removed and replaced in his mother's womb when it was discovered she had cancerous lesions. Adam had previously had a kidney transplant/ 10-4-2025 pic by Ian McIlgorm

Baby was 'born twice' after extraordinary operation to save mum's life

UK 4 days ago By Jen Mills

Weasel taken at British Wildlife Centre

Weasel testicles used to cure heartbreaking condition by couples in medieval times

UK 5 days ago By Sarah Hooper

This photograph shows a cryotherapy room at the Centre International de Haute Performance du Val d'Oise (ATHLETICA) preparation centre for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which will host Team USA, in Eaubonne, northern Paris, on June 28, 2024. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Woman left brain-dead after cryotherapy incident which killed employee

World 6 days ago By Sam Courtney-Guy

Woman taking medical pill with water

What is the weight-loss drug Orfoglipron and could it replace Ozempic?

UK 5 days ago By Sarah Hooper

Mrs Hinch reveals newborn’s heartbreaking congenital diagnosis after week in hospital

Showbiz 6 days ago By Pierra Willix

Robert F Kennedy Jr, a man with grey hair in a blue suit, holding his hands aloft as he makes a point.

Robert F. Kennedy wants us to be scared of a 'autism epidemic' - I'm not

US 6 days ago By Emma Bainbridge

Susan Harding before and after her stroke

Mum left disabled after ambulance that should have taken 18 minutes took two hours

UK April 17, 2025 By Luke Alsford

NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT Milton Keynes NHS Hospital undated handout photo of staff using the new Versius robotic arm technology during a surgery. Next generation surgical robots have been hailed by doctors as "a leap forward in surgical precision" in the UK. PA Photo. Issue date: Thursday February 20, 2020. The tool is used to perform minimal access surgery - also known as keyhole or laparoscopic surgery - and could reduce patient recovery times and pain. See PA story TECHNOLOGY Robots. Photo credit should read: Milton Keynes NHS Hospital/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

How 'innovative' robots could soon be removing tumours during NHS surgery

Tech April 17, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Could mystery viruses be unleashed from frozen ancient mammals?

Tech 7 days ago By Josh Milton

EMBARGOED TO 1600 WEDNESDAY APRIL 16 Undated handout photo issued by Blood Cancer UK of Professor George Vassiliou, from the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, who co-led a study which suggests a widely used diabetes drug may help prevent an aggressive form of blood cancer among people who are at the highest risk of disease. Researchers found that metformin -a cheap treatment for type 2 diabetes - could potentially prevent a form of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) when they studied the effects of the drug on mice. Issue date: Wednesday April 16, 2025. PA Photo. They then analysed genetic data on humans and found that people who were taking metformin were less likely to have a common genetic change linked to AML. See PA story HEALTH Leukaemia. Photo credit should read: Blood Cancer UK/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Pill taken by millions on NHS ‘could also prevent leukaemia’

Tech April 16, 2025 By Jen Mills

Brits fall ill with cholera after drinking holy water

Tourists fall ill with cholera after drinking holy water that's meant to heal you

World April 16, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Close up of pills of blister pack on table .

New pill for 'untreatable' super gonorrhoea found in major health breakthrough

Tech April 14, 2025 By Jen Mills

EMBARGOED TO 0001 FRIDAY APRIL 26 Nurse Eleanor Ferguson after administering infusion to patient Steve Young, having received his first jab at the University College London Hospital (UCLH) in London, for an international clinical trial testing a novel cancer immunotherapy which may prevent skin cancer from recurring. The mRNA-based technology in this study is aimed at people who have already had high-risk melanomas removed. Picture date: Thursday April 11, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story HEALTH Cancer. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Patients will soon be able to test new NHS skin cancer jab

UK April 14, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Mum's warning after daughter, 17, develops 'popcorn lung' from vaping

US April 10, 2025 By Katie Boyden

UK's first womb transplant

'Miracle' baby born after mum had first ever womb transplant in the UK

Tech April 8, 2025 By Jen Mills

A paramedic lowers the loading platform of an ambulance outside the emergency department of the Royal London Hospital in London, England, on January 25, 2021. Across the UK, deaths recorded within 28 days of a positive covid-19 test look set to rise above 100,000 this week, with the current figure at 98,531. In London and most other regions of England, however, coronavirus rates appear to be falling, according to data reported today. (Photo by David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

One in 20 ambulance workers say people have died in their care due to NHS delays

UK April 6, 2025 By Oliver Jones

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