Browsing: Health

Thousands more black men will be invited to take part in a prostate cancer screening trial as the health secretary insisted he was “following the science”…

Taking weight-loss drugs for at least three years could prevent thousands of knee replacements a year, research suggests.Globally, more than 500 million people have osteoarthritis. Knee…

GPs in England are so “overloaded” that they cannot help older people who are at risk of falling in what NHS bosses accept is an unacceptable…

Doctors are hailing a drug that spares bladder cancer patients “life-changing” surgery and stops tumours coming back.Bladder cancer is the ninth most common cancer in the…

When Abdul El-Sayed walked into Detroit’s health department in 2015, he found about 85 employees crammed into the back of a municipal parking building. The city…

“And so, of course, I have completely stopped eating red meat.”The “of course” is galling, especially since we have been using precious bags of blood to…

A smart drug that stops cancer cells “hiding” from treatment can shrink tumours by at least 30% in six of the world’s most common forms of…

One of the first patients to benefit from a pioneering smart drug that appears to melt away the “invisibility cloak” that can shield cancer cells from…

Cancer causes nearly one in six deaths worldwide every year, some 10 million all told. That is a stunning number, but it also masks the reality…

On reading the latest column in your long-running series (Lawnmower hum: why the sound of the summer could cost you £5,000, 27 May), I noticed that…