Latest News

A collection of health related news stories from the BBC website.

2012 will be National Pathology Year!

On Friday 18th November a series of events will be taking place to mark European Antibiotics Awareness Day.

The cause of a rare and severe form of hypoglycaemia - or very low levels of sugar in the blood - is genetic, say researchers.

A massive recruitment drive is underway to match up thousands of diabetes patients with research projects aimed at finding a cure for the disease.

What are scientists really like? I'm a Scientist – a film by Stephen Curry.

Temporary Public Engagement Manager -Salary £30,000 pa pro-rata for 21 hours per week.

A new report has encouraged the sharing of genetic information between family members and healthcare professionals as part of good clinical practice.

An injection of stem cells alongside usual treatments in heart attack patients could help limit the damage and prevent heart failure, researchers claim.

It may be possible to extend the usefulness of cancer drugs by preventing drug resistance in tumours, say researchers.

The way cells in the gut fight off toxins produced by a hospital bug has been discovered by US researchers.

A quick and cheap test could save the lives of babies born with congenital heart defects.

A nanocomposite polymer has been developed by Alex Seifalian, professor of nanotechnology and regenerative medicine at UCL Medical School.

A lack of sunshine is putting millions of people at risk of diabetes because they don't have enough vitamin D, researchers have said.

A new plastic surface which overcomes the difficulties associated with growing adult stem cells has been developed, according to scientists.

A gene has been linked to 70% of hard-to-treat breast cancers which are resistant to hormone therapies, in US research.

Rising cancer rates mean 4 in 10 people in the UK get the disease at some point in their lives, Macmillan Cancer Support says.

Fertility doctors say they have found a non-invasive way to screen IVF embryos for genetic abnormalities.