Palestinian housewife Ibtisam Erekat and Israeli Orthodox Jew Ruth Ebenstein talk about how breast cancer made them close friends.

Millions more people should be put on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to cut their risk of heart disease, say draft guidelines for the NHS.

There has been a jump in the number of UK deaths linked to so-called "legal highs".

There is a lack of clarity about what the money saved in the NHS in England in recent years has been spent on, say MPs.

Drugs-related deaths in Northern Ireland are mostly linked to prescription drugs unlike other regions of the UK, a new study suggests.

The interim head of a hospital says she will focus on getting a "grip" on its problems after staff said they were bullied into falsifying patient data.

Scientists at Strathclyde University develop a new test to speed up the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis.

There is a crisis of confidence about a new NHS data-sharing scheme involving medical records, GP leaders are warning.