PATIENTS from the North East are taking part in global drug trials which could offer fresh hope to women with aggressive breast cancer, it emerged last night.

Relatives should go into hospitals to help staff care for the elderly, according to a nursing leader. Dr Peter Carter, head of the Royal College of Nursing, said families should be encouraged to assist patients during mealtimes and ...

An unemployed, homeless man is due in court today charged with contaminating packets of Nurofen Plus painkillers with anti-psychotic and anti-epileptic drugs.

Almost a half of UK youngsters - 43 per cent - admitted not using a condom, up from 36 per cent in 2009. A quarter blamed a partner, while 15 per cent admitted they were drunk.

A Libyan child injured in the fighting in his home country has been flown to a London hospital for medical treatment. Fifteen-year-old Abdul Malek El Hamdi was evacuated from Tripoli and brought to St Marys Hospital on Thursday.

Cyclists in cities inhale more black carbon than pedestrians - and this may damage their lungs, evidence shows. Automobiles discharge a huge quantity of soot or black carbon particles from their exhausts.