Health
- 'Game-changing' urine tests could detect breast cancer, endometriosis and PCOSon March 5, 2026 at 10:51 pm
New tests are being developed to spot early signs of breast cancer and endometriosis in urine.
- 'Moment of reckoning' needed in social care, says Louise Caseyon March 5, 2026 at 5:49 pm
The chair of the independent commission on social care recommends introducing a full-time dementia tsar, and new fast-track passport system for people diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND).
- Covid inquiry chair defends £200m cost and four-year process on final dayon March 5, 2026 at 5:04 pm
Baroness Heather Hallett said completing the hearings in under four years was an achievement but critics have questioned its cost.
- Covid inquiry chair defends £200m cost and four-year process on final dayon March 5, 2026 at 5:04 pm
Baroness Heather Hallett said completing the hearings in under four years was an achievement but critics have questioned its cost.
- Woman reveals pain of living with endometriosison March 5, 2026 at 12:34 pm
"People have horrendous periods and think they just have to live with it... [but] you don’t," she says.
- Woman reveals pain of living with endometriosison March 5, 2026 at 12:34 pm
"People have horrendous periods and think they just have to live with it... [but] you don’t," she says.
- Dentists return £900m for not seeing NHS patientson March 5, 2026 at 8:12 am
Sum represents £1 out of every £7 they have been given by NHS as dentists opt to chase private work.
- Death of boy after surgery is referred to coroneron March 5, 2026 at 6:39 am
Nine-year-old Jack Moate died in 2015, weeks after an operation carried out by a now-suspended surgeon.
- Allergy training to become compulsory in schools in Englandon March 5, 2026 at 5:22 am
The plans, due to come into force in September, follow support for Benedict's Law, a campaign to improve allergy safety in schools.
- 'My son can now enjoy life': Children with severe form of epilepsy helped by new drugon March 4, 2026 at 10:06 pm
Families say the groundbreaking medicine is transforming the lives of children with Dravet syndrome.