The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 has been awarded for discoveries that explain how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells. The prize is shared by Japa …
'Sit up straight!' - we've all heard that command barked at us many times. For years we've been told that good posture means standing tall, shoulders back and your spine straight as a rod. But that mi …
It felt like there was a collective sigh of relief when a study, published this week, suggested 10,000 steps a day isn't the health utopia we had all been led to believe. The news that we only had to …
Wes Streeting has ruled out introducing value added tax (VAT) on private healthcare at the forthcoming Budget. It comes after newspaper reports that the Treasury was looking at bringing private health …
A targeted prostate cancer screening programme for men at the highest risk could 'save countless lives', former prime minister Rishi Sunak has told the BBC. Prostate Cancer Research, of which Sunak is …
The five-day doctor strike in England has ended, but it is clear this dispute - 12 walkouts and counting - is far from over. 'We've been let down by Wes Streeting,' says Dr Shivam Sharma, who joined o …
