Taking a daily dose of aspirin can reduce the incidence of bowel cancer in people at high risk of the disease, scientists say.

The number of new cancer cases in the UK could rise by 45% by 2030 to more than 430,000 a year, research suggests.

Researchers in Oxford are developing a genetic therapy which they hope could eventually stop people going blind and transform the lives of thousands of people in years to come.

A nurse was dismissed from Nottingham University Hospitals Trust after posting a picture of a patient on Facebook, it emerges.

A study, published in the Lancet, showed a dramatic fall in the number of tumours in "at risk" patients who a daily dose of aspirin