Disease and Medical Conditions

Imprecise use of medicine costs lives. If we can target drugs more effectively, we’ll deliver better outcomes for patients while making huge strides in securing the NHS’s future.
Eating disorders awareness week is vital for ending stigma – but every day of recovery is difficult enough without hearing people’s lowest weights, their skinniest photos, their diet plans and their exercise regimes
Obesity is projected to cost the health service around £10bn by 2050.
Air pollution is a major public health risk, ranking alongside cancer, heart disease and obesity. Millions of premature deaths are linked to air pollution each year, up to 36,000 of those early deaths are in the UK. Here are some small changes you can make to help reduce your exposure to air pollution.
Towns in Oxfordshire and South Devon reveal the profound impact closures are having.
One morning on the ward round the vascular surgeons came to see Derrick. They told him that the left leg was not going to heal and that it had begun to die.
Breast cancer remains the leading cause of death in women under 50.
Doctors warn high street knife sales are helping to fuel a rise in attacks.