When it comes down to it, health is the one thing that nobody can take away from you, except you.

A cancer specialist tells the BBC he is giving patients unnecessary treatment to try to cut waiting lists.

More anorexics could get help as part of a £2 million government-funded research project.

New strains of flu are showing resistance to drugs it is hoped would help slow a pandemic, research suggests.

Clothia Roussell draws inspiration from the prophets. “I’ve read in the Bible how we’re supposed to live to see 120, and those prophets lived to be 400 or 500 years old,” she says. Last fall, she and her husband Michael, began seeing Dr. Ana Casas, who calls herself a specialist in “age management.” It’s one [...]

Plans to move the sterilisation of surgical equipment out of hospitals are “a recipe for chaos”, a group of surgeons says.

Men’s health campaigners pledge to monitor how NHS organisations comply with new gender equality legislation.

The national screening programme for chlamydia is not backed by evidence it is beneficial, say researchers.

The national screening programme for chlamydia is not backed by evidence it is beneficial, say researchers.

Men’s health campaigners pledge to monitor how NHS organisations comply with new gender equality legislation.

Hospital patients should be screened for the Clostridium difficile bug, according to an expert.