Noel Edmonds has suggested that a cancer sufferer’s ill health is caused by his “negative attitude”. The TV presenter is a user of the EMPpad, a machine which aims to
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Almost one in four cancer patients need to see their GP at least three times before getting referred to hospital, a new survey suggests. This means thousands of cancer sufferers
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Midwives have called for renewed efforts to tackle female genital mutilation (FGM) after more than 1,200 cases were recorded across England in just three months. This includes 11 Britons who
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Jeremy Hunt has been urged to give NHS England the power to commission an HIV prevention treatment which could be a “game changer” in stopping the spread of the infection.
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The Communities and Local Government Committee has today launched an inquiry into the financial sustainability of local authority adult social care and the quality of care provided. The Committee will examine
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Millions of people who care for friends and relatives across the UK say their lives are being damaged by a lack of support from their communities and awareness of the
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A conference for over 50s living with HIV has been praised as ‘empowering’, after more than 100 people attended the sell-out event in London. On the weekend of HIV Long-Term
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One of Britain’s worst paedophiles, who posted on the so-called “dark web” as he abused up to 200 Malaysian children, has been handed 22 life sentences. Freelance photographer Richard Huckle,
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The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) have issued a call to social workers who have expertise in working with people with learning disabilities to join a BASW group advising
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There is considerable optimism amongst policy-makers that greater use of digital health technologies (‘telehealth’) in combination with new ways of working could transform health care delivery, helping the NHS to
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