Researchers study treatment for chronic pain in childhood cancer survivors
Team at Nottingham Trent University is investigating how chemotherapy in early life could damage nerve cells
Treatments that could help alleviate the chronic pain experienced by thousands of childhood cancer survivors...
Ways to make the NHS – and all of us – more healthy | Letters
Medicalising problems chiefly caused by health inequalities is not a long-term solution, says Emeritus Professor David J Hunter. Plus letters from Jennifer Marshall, Amanda Baker and Chris Clough
Re the article by Wes Streeting (I...
Want to understand British irony, humour and politics? Visit the NHS suggestions website | Emma Beddington
Put a Wetherspoon’s in every hospital? Make Larry the Cat the health minister? The public’s ideas are like British banter bingo – but they show how much we care
Do you ever wonder if the...
Positive assessment rates for autism vary widely between parts of England
Charity says findings on evaluations of children and adults suggest different approaches and are ‘deeply worrying’
Children and adults seeking an autism diagnosis in England are up to almost seven times more likely to...
Reeves: ‘My budget will match greatest economic moments in Labour history’
The chancellor says she will invest to reverse Tory decline, but stands accused of breaking party manifesto promises
Labour will launch a new era of public and private investment in hospitals, schools, transport and...
This mother made six attempts to raise the alarm about her sick toddler. Doctors told her he’d be fine. They were fatally wrong
The death of her son, Micah, highlights the danger of medics ignoring parental concerns. ‘It was like they were gaslighting us,’ says Keri-Sue McManus
On the morning...
Labour MPs fear chancellor’s tough budget will bring new set of problems
Concerns from party that significant cuts to key departments will set damaging tone for new government
When Rachel Reeves stands up in the Commons on Wednesday, her budget will end months of speculation, allowing the...
Which disease-modifying Alzheimer’s drugs are the most promising?
Many drugs in development aim to delay, slow or reverse symptoms, but which are causing the biggest stir?
This week England’s health spending watchdog rejected a new Alzheimer’s drug – the second such drug it has turned down...
Private healthcare boom fuelled by NHS waiting lists
UK market rose to all-time high of £12.4bn last year, with NHS paying for nearly £3.5bn of procedures to ease backlog
The value of the UK’s private healthcare market rose to a record £12.4bn last year as long NHS waiting lists fuelled...
French finesse can deter buffet gluttons | Brief letters
A warning sign | Queuing for Van Gogh | NHS passports | Paddington Bear’s passport | Fitting F-words for Trump
Fining diners who overload their plates is one way to stop bad buffet behaviour (Emma Beddington, 21 October), but gentler...
Carole Pound obituary
My friend Carole Pound, who has died aged 66 of ovarian cancer, was a speech and language therapist. She broke new ground as a champion for the inclusion in services and research of people with language loss (aphasia) after they had suffered a stroke, head injury or...
A royal commission on social care may be coming – don’t despair, it may actually work this time | Polly Toynbee
Though royal commissions have a bad reputation, this is a real chance to establish a realistic plan before it is too late
A collective groan greeted the rumour that the government...
NHS in England to trial AI tool to predict risk of fatal heart disease
‘Superhuman’ technology known as Aire can detect potential problems doctors cannot see from ECG results
The NHS in England is to trial a “superhuman” artificial intelligence tool that predicts a patient’s risk of disease...
Alzheimer’s drug rejected for widespread NHS use in England
Health spending watchdog says donanemab ‘does not currently demonstrate value for the NHS’
A new Alzheimer’s drug has been rejected for widespread use by the NHS in England after the health spending watchdog said that it “does not...
Welcome aboard NHS Forums. The new unofficial forums for the National Health Service. Bar a few Facebook groups, which is providing Facebook with a lot of data that they perhaps should not be in charge of! (but that's for another thread), there aren't many, if any, independent forums and places...
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