Dying cancer patients should be spared futile and expensive treatment which can offer false hope in the last weeks of life, experts have said.

Buyers at Barts and The London NHS Trust expect to save £320000 this year by reducing its selection of medical gloves from 20 to just two.

A new survey has found that increasing number of young Britons are having unprotected sex with a new partner. Researchers surveyed 200 British young people as part of a study of 6026 people aged 15 to 24 across 29 countries between April and May.

The first NHS clinic dedicated to treating those addicted to so-called club drugs has opened in London. The centre has specialist treatments and is staffed by doctors, nurses, psychologists and drug workers to help people who use substances such as ...

By Jane Hughes Health correspondent, BBC News Nicolas Tompkins parents believe he wouldnt be with them if it wasnt for the doctors and nurses at the Royal Brompton Hospital in central London.

A London hospitals trial of a prostate cancer drug has been stopped early because it was so successful doctors felt it would be unethical to deny the treatment to other patients.