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A new report published by Public Health England (PHE) showed that the UK is one of the first countries to meet the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets, highlighting that prevention efforts are working in the UK.

The UK Government needs to urgently implement new carers' employment rights and work with employers to better support carers in the workplace, according to a new report from the Work Foundation.

It can take up to a year for some bowel cancer patients in the UK to start treatment, according to international research co-ordinated by Cancer Research UK and published in the BMJ Open.

Researchers have discovered that endurance exercise, such as running, swimming, cross-country skiing and cycling, will help you age better than resistance exercise, which involves strength training with weights.

Newlife, the Charity for Disabled Children, has published a four-point plan off the back of a damning report that has exposed major failings around the provision of specialist equipment to vulnerable children. 

Variations in lung cancer care 'cannot be tolerated' and many people face 'unwarranted' delays in treatment that can have a dramatic effect on survival, according to a new report.

A new study published in the journal Social Theory & Health has called into question how patients interact and respond to psychiatry when they present to mental health services.

The House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee has written to Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (DHSC) asking for clarity on the Government's contingency preparations to ensure the UK has continued access to medicines and medical products in the event of a 'no deal' Brexit.

One in eight - or nearly 13% - of children and young people aged 5-19 years old, surveyed in England in 2017, had a mental disorder according to a new report that provides England's best source of data on trends in child mental health.

A new UK med-tech company, Camcon Medical Ltd, has been launched this week, specialising in the precise, high-speed and low energy control of liquid and gas in the healthcare and life sciences industry through its unique Binary Actuation Technology (BAT).

Depressed people have an increased risk of atrial fibrillation, according to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) journal. Medication was not responsible for the high frequency of atrial fibrillation in depressed people.

Patients with a type of advanced skin cancer will soon have a new treatment option available, after pembrolizumab, also known as Keytruda, was recommended for use on the Cancer Drugs Fund. 

A short 5-minute scan of blood vessels in the neck could predict cognitive decline 10 years before symptoms appear, according to research co-funded by the British Heart Foundation. 

NICE has recommended a pioneering cancer treatment, CART-cell therapy, for people under the age of 25 with leukaemia.

A medicine used to treat a bladder cancer which occurs predominantly in very young children has been accepted by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) for routine use in NHS Scotland.