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Lord George Carey has written to MPs saying it is an "act of great generosity, kindness and human love" to help terminally ill patients end their lives

Michelle Richardson's worst fear came to life when chickpea-sized lumps appeared all over her body - and now she has a warning for Brits this Bank Holiday heatwave

New data has revealed which NHS trusts have the worst A&E wait times for last month, with almost 27,000 people waiting over 12 hours in the emergency department last month

The diagnosis has had a huge impact on Karen's life and has meant she has not been able to return to her job as a lollipop lady – a role she has held for the last 22 years

These cancers, including pancreatic and bowel, often have symptoms that people don't get checked out until it's too late, and medical experts are urging us to assess for early warning signs

The Government announced a crackdown amid growing fears over the health impact on children targeted by colourful, flavoured devices seasoned smokers use to quit

Veteran broadcaster Jeremy Paxman revealed he was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2021 - there is no true test for the disease, but these are the key symptoms to look out for

Last year's worrying scarlet fever outbreak in Britain posed a particular problem for Black parents who weren't told about what to look for on their children's skin

Mikey Connor was travelling around the world when he discovered a cancerous lump on one of his testicles. When he returned home, the pain got worse and he was diagnosed with testicular cancer

Almost two thirds of cases it took multiple appointments and a worsening of the severity of symptoms before a diagnosis was made - with the average person getting a diagnosis after 4.5 years

Kevin Maguire writes that Jeremy Hunt is relaxed about plunging Britain into recession - no wonder Labour and Keir Starmer are enjoying healthy double-digit poll leads

ITV broadcaster Emily Morgan's final appearance on ITV News aired less than a month before her death

There have been 145 incidents of wrongly inserted nasogastric tubes in hospitals in England over the past five years - and 28 of these ended in the patient's death

Paris Wells, a 28-year-old beauty therapist who lives in Kent, says she went to A&E after feeling tired and noticing swelling in her neck but was misdiagnosed

The British Medical Association's junior doctors' committee co-chair Vivek Trivedi challenged the Tory minister after he suggested doctors were being unreasonable

The General Pharmaceutical Council say inspections are designed to help pharmacies improve their services to the public as the worst performing areas in the UK can be revealed

Chickenpox is notorious for spreading easily among children, which is why health bosses are calling for the vaccine to be added to the NHS's childhood immunisation programme in an effort to reduce rates

The WHO has listed nine pathogens they believe are the most 'urgent' threat to humanity. Concerned scientists are urgently researching them, but have excluded one key threat

ITV News journalist Emily Morgan has died at the age of 45, it has been announced, with tributes from her colleagues flooding social media for the journalist who reported from the frontlines in Covid

The EMIS software, which is used in approximately half of GP surgeries, primary care facilities, dentists and community pharmacies in England, had outages for most of Friday

Steve Gibson and David Crampton were at court in 1993 to see Beverley Allitt sentenced. The two fathers said the Angel of Death nurse should never be released from prison

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued a warning after a further 10 cases of mpox, which was previously known as monkeypox, have been diagnosed in the country

Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary blamed record NHS waiting times and out of date benefit rules for trapping people out of work

The £16.99 flip-flops, bearing Keir Starmer's face, are significantly cheaper than the £95 designer sliders favoured by Rishi Sunak

Libraries are usually a place for quiet, but as Luisa Metcalfe discovers, one local centre’s drop-in group in Ipswich is helping men open up without the stigma of therapy