In this week's Scrubbing Up, Mr Andrew McCombe, a leading ENT surgeon, warns patients lives are at risk because too few tonsillectomies are now being performed in the UK

Babies born weighing less than 2.5kg (5.5lb) are five times more likely to die from cot death than those of normal weight, figures show.

Engineers have designed a feedback system that can give surgeons a virtual sense of touch during remote keyhole surgery

Matt Hampson was an aspiring England rugby player when he was injured in a scrum and paralysed from the neck down. He talks about how his life has changed.

A chemical in the blood could one day help doctors spot early signs of ovarian cancer, research suggests.

The Dunya Women's clinic of Ramallah is the first of its kind for early diagnosis of breast cancer in the Palestinian territories.

A third care home run by a company at the centre of allegations of abuse against vulnerable patients is to close, it is announced.

The death of a man decapitated by a mental health patient could have been prevented if there had not been a catalogue of lost opportunities, an inquiry finds.