Latest National News
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Contact lenses packed with vitamin E could help save the sight of millions of people with glaucoma
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Operation Dignity: From a top designer, the hospital gown that leaves you less exposed
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Departments pledge to cut costs by billions
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Cancer scans delayed in NHS funding crisis as doctors fear 'slash and burn' cuts
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Lung cancer gene found in non-smokers
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Brain stimulation a 'promising therapy' for epilepsy
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Competition to get school children involved in healthcare science
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Weight-loss drugs 'unlikely to be of long-term benefit'
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Hospitals urged to scrap ban on sitting on beds
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One in four NHS hospital trusts 'failing basic hygiene standards', watchdog finds
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Blood-thinning drug 'better than warfarin'
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You can now have your kidney removed in 45 minutes, leaving a one-inch scar
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Tongue device enables blinded soldier to 'see'
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Too many visit GPs with minor ailments, campaigners say
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Occasional high BP warning sign for stroke
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Campaign seeks to raise awareness of Alzheimer's symptoms
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Betrayal of 20,000 cancer patients: Rationing body rejects ten drugs (allowed in Europe) that could have extended lives
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Common painkillers affect hearing
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Coffee cuts diabetes risk
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Calls to halt England NHS patient database development
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Healthy people should not take aspirin to ward off heart attack research shows
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More help for adults with autism
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Back-pain help for workers urged
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Pain 'should be viewed as a disease in its own right'
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Medicines shortage: ministers hold summit
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Leg pain and cold extremities 'red flags for meningitis'
