A 10-year-old girl, Eliana Mann, has had a tumour weighing more than 3kg removed in an operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

The maker's of a drug that treats age-related macular degeneration, a disease that can cause loss of sight, are taking the NHS to court to block them from using a drug that costs ten times less and is just as effective, according to tests.

Hospitals in large cities are the breeding grounds of the superbug MRSA, researchers discover.

The number of people in their 50s dying from cancer in the UK has fallen to its lowest recorded level, figures reveal.

Patients and NHS staff are being urged to help Labour gather information on how front-line care is being affected.

Patients in England are suffering from shortages in the supply of some medicines, an all party group of MPs says.

Four patients being treated for diarrhoea and vomiting at a hospital in the west of Scotland have died.

Editors of all 19 worldwide editions of the magazine jointly pledge not to use models younger than 16 or those they believe have an eating disorder.