Browsing: treatment

Illustration: Mel Haasch/The GuardianFor Erica L and her husband, in-vitro fertilization was the “nuclear option”.After two years of trying to conceive, Erica and her husband had…

More than 1,000 patients living with bladder cancer in England will be eligible for a treatment which can double survival rates from the disease.In England, 18,000…

Betsy Lewis, 75, poses for a portrait at her home in Houston, Texas. Photograph: Danielle Villasana/The GuardianI can remember many things about the afternoon I told…

In 1989 David Clune was a young dad with four children when he was diagnosed with hepatitis B and C. Being told he wouldn’t get to…

Resident doctors in England are set to go on strike on Friday demanding a 29% pay rise that they say would restore salaries that have been…

With a new Downton Abbey film coming this autumn, and the heroine of Lena Dunham’s new Netflix series, Too Much, fantasising about being courted by a…

Patients from the most deprived areas of England face longer waits for NHS treatment and make up a higher proportion of those waiting for care, according…

In Lancaster the community nurse Lizzie Holmes knocks on doors to talk to people who are unwell but reluctant to accept NHS help. In Blackpool, “community…