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Women from black and Asian backgrounds are less likely than their white counterparts to receive an epidural while giving birth, research has revealed.The findings, based on…

Sitting for longer than half an hour at a time each day raises the risk of dying from cancer, a study suggests.Researchers who tracked more than…

People with strong chest and back muscles are less likely to have a heart attack or die prematurely, analysis using artificial intelligence suggests.Researchers led by the…

New research for the first time links prenatal exposure to Pfas “forever chemicals” with the development of polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) later in life.PMOS, formerly…

1. Smart drugs can help patients kill off their own tumoursImmunotherapy drugs, which harness the body’s immune system to attack tumours, have revolutionised cancer treatment over…

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…

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…

Doctors have hailed “unprecedented” trial results that show a triple-action cancer jab can eradicate entire tumours in patients.In an international trial spanning 11 countries, the injection…

A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer that was billed as the holy grail of oncology has failed to achieve its main objective…

“I saw my dad have cancer when I was a kid, and unfortunately that happens far too often. And that really motivated me to try to…