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Getty Images The UK’s National Screening Committee has recommended that only a very small group of men at high risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease. There is currently no screening programme for prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men. But there has been some energetic campaigning for change by high-profile…

Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former US President John F Kennedy, moved many Americans over the weekend with her emotional essay about being diagnosed with terminal cancer shortly after giving birth to her second child. In the New Yorker, the 35-year-old stunned readers, writing that she was battling acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer,…

Parents will be able to use gift vouchers and supermarket loyalty points to buy infant formula under a government plan to make baby milk more affordable. Under the new measures, parents will be given clearer guidance on the nutritional standards, which need to be met by all formula sold in the UK, and encourage retailers…

Fourteen NHS trusts are to have their maternity services examined over what has been described as “failures in the system”, the government has said. The inquiries are part of a rapid review of maternity care in England that was announced in June. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said bereaved families had shown “extraordinary courage” in coming…

An NHS resident doctor has been suspended by a medical tribunal for 15 months after posting alleged antisemitic comments on social media. Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a 31-year-old trainee trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, was also alleged to have expressed support for “violent action and terrorist organisations”. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) said Dr Aladwan’s posts…