Health

A life-extending drug for people with cystic fibrosis will become available on NHS England after a deal with the pharma company which makes it. Orkambi improves lung function and reduce breathing difficulties and can be taken by children as young as two. It originally came at a cost of £100,000 a year, but a confidential…

Almost a year after the Home Secretary decided to legalise medicinal cannabis, it’s still all-but-impossible to access on the NHS. The health watchdog has ruled that there either isn’t enough clinical trial data to support it or it’s not cost-effective to provide free of charge. We have been talking to the families who are desperate…

A powerful drug presribed for acne is being linked to at least 14 deaths this year – mainly from suicide.

We spoke to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

Police in Northern Ireland say they have identified 1,500 incidents of abuse on a single ward of a mental health hospital in County Antrim. The investigation has seen police officers watch hundreds of thousands of hours of CCTV footage from Muckamore Abbey Hospital.

Johnson and Johnson has been ordered to pay over $500 million dollars to the state of Oklahoma for its role in the crisis of prescription painkillers.

A girl aged just two years and eight months has become the youngest child in the world to have an operation to calm uncontrolled muscle spasms by having electrodes inserted into her brain.

We have spoken to one mother who lost her daughter suddenly without warning.

More than eleven hundred doctors have signed an open letter warning about the mental and physical health damage caused by global warming and calling for urgent action.

The father of a child with a rare genetic disease is having to move to the Netherlands to receive treatment that the NHS won’t fund.

A man has told the inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal how four members of his family died from Aids.

Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock discusses mental health.

The former Care Minister Norman Lamb has spoken to Channel 4 News about the death of his sister Catherine Gilbride, who took her own life in August 2015 after becoming severely depressed.

As the Health Secretary Matt Hancock was telling MPs about how the Channel Tunnel will help with the supply of medicines if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the government was being threatened with a judicial review over its plans to prevent a break in supply.