Health News
Concern over Broadmoor 'failings'
Broadmoor high-security hospital is criticised by a health watchdog over its high suicide rate and failure to protect patients.
Pendulum heart cured by spine op
A teenage girl whose heart was pushed to the wrong side of her body by a rare spine problem is cured by surgery.
Stressed parents up asthma risk
Stressed parents may increase the risk that a child will develop asthma, research findings suggest.
Immune therapy Alzheimer's hope
An immune system therapy given to cancer patients could have the added benefit of reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Potent cancer drug hopes raised
A new way of making cancer cells die has been discovered by UK scientists, raising hopes of potent new treatments.
Man refused liver transplant dies
A 22-year-old east London man who began binge-drinking at 13 dies after health chiefs refuse to give him a liver transplant.
Half a brain girl recovers vision
Scientists solve the mystery of how a girl born with half a brain has near perfect vision in one eye.