Health

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.

Ahead of Rare Diseases Day, Baroness Nicola Blackwood spoke to Channel 4 News about her own genetic condition and promised a revolution in the way patients are diagnosed and treated.

The heartbreak of knowing your child has a rare, incurable disease, then finding out a drug is available which might help to slow its progression, before that glimpse of hope is snatched away.

xclusive: From tomorrow, GP surgeries across the UK will be able to display a daffodil mark – a sign that they will be using new standards for the care of the terminally ill. Developed by the Royal College of GPs and the charity, Marie Curie, it will encourage GPs and practice staff to identify those at…

Children should not use electronic devices at the dinner table, say the UK’s chief medical officers.

Sophie Bennett was 19 when she took her own life, upset by changes made to the home she lived in.

The number of patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for treatment rose to more than half a million in November, according to the latest figures released by NHS England. There were, however, fewer patients waiting longer than four hours in A&E departments across England in December compared with the same period last year. But there…

Universal Credit was meant to simplify and streamline the existing benefits system but it has been running into trouble for several years. Some claimants have even been forced into destitution. Today the Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd decided to dramatically scale back the next stage of the roll out: from 3 million benefit claimants…