Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, has overtaken heart disease as the leading cause of death in…

Sore throat sufferers will be encouraged to visit their pharmacist instead of their GP for…

An implant that beams instructions out of the brain has been used to restore movement…

A person’s chance of falling ill from a new strain of flu are at least…

Thousands of hospital bed days could be saved if occupational therapists were used more to…

Council cuts to care in England are so severe there is a real risk families…

Eating hot meals and keeping active are effective ways for the over-65s and those with…

More than 9,000 patients’ records in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex have gone missing since a…

Being one of the “worried well” might actually increase heart-disease risk, a study has suggested.…

Ambulances, A&E, GPs and waiting times – health is never far from the headlines. A…

The UK has created a specialist team of health experts who can be deployed anywhere…

The way the NHS in England is organised is hindering its ability to meet its…

A group of MPs says the government is incorrect to keep claiming it is allocating…

Care homes will be forced to reveal how many patients they have evicted against their…

“The term ‘life-changing’ is probably over-used nowadays but in this case it is accurate”: so…