Getty Images”If I see someone tapping their fingers on a desk, my immediate thought is to chop their fingers off with a knife,” an anonymous patient confides to a researcher.

Rates of bowel cancer are rising among younger adults, with no clear reason why, experts are warning.

It was almost a year ago that Adele Darlington, who is 41 and from Warrington, was in a critical condition in hospital following massive bleeding while giving birth to her baby girl.

Getty ImagesTravellers are being warned of the dangers of methanol poisoning after six tourists to Laos have died.

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Folic acid is to be added to non-wholemeal wheat flour in the UK to help prevent birth defects.

PAFailing hospitals will be revealed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they do not turn things around, the health secretary will tell health leaders at a conference in Liverpool.

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The NHS will start offering an “improved” stop smoking pill to tens of thousands of people in England who want to quit cigarettes.

BBCThe NHS will review whether to change its advice on testing for prostate cancer in light of Sir Chris Hoy’s “powerful” call for more younger men to be checked, the health secretary has said.