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Prostate cancer screening only for « a few thousand » high risk men

Only "a few thousand" men who have a dangerous genetic variant and a family history of cancer should be screened for prostate cancer with...

‘It’s not a nice world to bring children into’: Births fall to the lowest level in 50 years

"It's just not a very nice world to bring people into, and why would I consciously do that when I can choose not to?" Stacey...

Resident doctors to strike for 16th time over pay

Resident doctors in England are to stage a fresh round of strikes in June. The walkout from 07:00 BST on Monday 15 June until 6:59...

Hundreds of children die within months as measles cases soar in Bangladesh

Akira was always a fast learner, her father Al Amin says with pride. At 6 months she was already saying her first words. At just...

‘We knew somebody would die’: Teenage patients ‘ignored’ before fatal NHS trust failures

"We knew somebody would die… and nobody listened." Laura Kenny is remembering her friend Christie Harnett. Both were patients at a mental health unit in Middlesbrough...

Australia confirms first diphtheria death amid worst outbreak in decades

Australia has recorded its first diphtheria death in almost a decade as the country grapples with the worst outbreak of the vaccine-preventable disease in...

PCOS name change ‘more representative of condition’

Changing the name of a metabolic condition affecting more than 170 million women globally is "more representative" of it as a whole-body condition -...

Excessive social media ‘negatively impacts wellbeing’

We all know the feeling of doom-scrolling, the mindless numbing of the brain. But did you know it's actually impacting our wellbeing more in the...

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