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Exclusive: Pre-chemotherapy tests previously did not look for gene variant that put some ethnicities at higher risk of serious side effectsThousands of cancer patients from minority ethnic backgrounds...
Participants reported enjoying the human connection regardless of whether they thought the topic was dullThe human aversion to dull experiences was nailed by the author Paulo Coelho when he declared:...
Bereaved parents say review of nine deaths is too narrow and will urge health secretary to add dozens more casesAn inquiry into the preventable deaths of babies in Sussex will fail to learn the lesson...
A nurse warned for addressing a transgender patient with incorrect pronouns and then suspended over an alleged breach of patient confidentiality has won a settlement against the NHS.
PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for themA new AI-driven way of identifying how patients with advanced bowel cancer will respond to a drug that w...
Exclusive: MPs say profit-making levels in England are ‘scandalous’ and call for cap on amount private companies can make from NHSPrivate firms providing services to the NHS including healthcare and c...
Campaigners welcome first update of school food standards in 13 years, which aims to help lower obesity ratesThe government is to announce an overhaul to school food standards in England that will lea...
Exclusive: Health secretary warns of dangers of protest vote as he pitches NHS as key elections battlegroundVoters in May’s local and devolved elections risk putting the NHS in jeopardy if they vote f...
Mo-Rez reduced or eliminated tumours in over 60% of patients and is expected to be a blockbuster drugGSK has revealed positive results for a treatment for gynaecological cancers as its chief executive...
Relacorilant, typically used to treat Cushing’s syndrome, could improve outcomes in platinum-resistant casesA drug originally used to treat a rare disease could extend the lives of patients with an ag...
Exclusive: Deal for resident doctors was in sight when sudden change by ministers forced latest action, says Jack FletcherMinisters killed the chance to end strikes by resident doctors when they sudde...
A drug taken to treat a rare condition could also extend the life of some ovarian cancer patients, a trial has suggested.
Use of glyphosate has risen 10-fold in 30 years, raising fears for public healthIt was Scottish farmers in the 1980s who pioneered the practice of spraying glyphosate on their wheat just before harves...
Exclusive: Sources believe AI tech company’s engineers have been granted access to directory of up to 1.5m staffHealth service staff have expressed alarm that engineers working for controversial tech...
Oxford team’s technology picked up danger signs with 86% accuracy in study of 72,000 patients in EnglandOxford scientists have developed a simple AI tool that can predict the risk of heart failure fiv...
Sir Jim Mackey said hospitals were struggling to fill rotas because six-day action was scheduled over holidayThe latest strike by resident doctors in England has been “deliberately timed to cause havo...
The Reform UK leader says he is ‘shocked’ by the remarks which were ‘over the top in every single way’The Green party is backing resident doctors who are on strike. This morning the party issued a sta...
The rapper is in a "stable" condition, with two people detained in connection with the incident.
Union rejected 4.9% pay rise for resident doctors, who are on six-day strike, but offered its own staff 2.75%The British Medical Association has been accused of the “height of hypocrisy” for offering...
When the singer-songwriter and Sufjan Stevens collaborator became gravely ill, he had to learn to walk, talk, hear, play and sing again. Music – and a love of antique instrumentation – helped him rebu...