Health

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…

As many as 150,000 women, who served during the 1960s and ’70s, were forced to leave if they married or couldn’t cope with army life, according to the Women’s Royal Army Corps Association. Many now feel totally forgotten and are struggling with debts and mental health issues.  

When the first cases of HIV broke out in the early eighties it was deemed a death sentence. Today life expectancy can be the same as the general population, and those on effective treatment can’t pass on the virus through sex. But the stigma remains, and older people can be particularly vulnerable. The Terrence Higgins…

When people talk about a “liquid lunch” they don’t normally mean a sachet of powder mixed with water. But that’s what’s being prescribed by NHS England for thousands of patients who have Type 2 diabetes in the hope of reversing their condition. Nine out of ten people with diabetes in the UK have Type 2,…

Sajid Javid has promised £17 millon as part of an early intervention youth fund to help tackle knife crime problem.

British Airways cabin crew have told an inquest into the death of a teenager who suffered an allergic reaction after eating a Pret a Manger sandwich that landing the plane took priority over fetching a defibrillator. Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who was 15, collapsed on a flight from London to Nice, and went into cardiac arrest. But the…