Abortions surge past record 250,000 in a single year, with experts blaming cost of living crisis forcing women to terminate pregnancies 'for purely financial reasons'

A record 252,122 abortions were recorded in England and Wales in 2022,…

Epidurals can reduce risk of serious childbirth-related complications such as sepsis and heart attacks by more than a third, study shows

Epidurals can reduce the risk of serious childbirth-related complications for mothers by…

Mothers left in blood covered sheets and told to 'stop stressing' over their dead babies: Harrowing reality of giving birth in NHS hospitals revealed in damning report laying bare scandal that traumatised Louise Thompson and hundreds of other women

Pregnant women are being treated like a ‘slab of ‘meat, a damning…

Chris Whitty warns Liz Truss and pro-libertarian critics of Rishi Sunak's tough smoking ban that children will needlessly die unless drastic plan goes ahead

Chris Whitty today urged Liz Truss and her pro-libertarian allies not to oppose Rishi Sunak’s…

Brain cancer-stricken father, 40, dies just weeks after fulfilling last wish to marry his partner of 17 years

A widow has told of her grief at her cancer-stricken husband dying…

Abortion time limit should be lowered to 22 weeks, doctors urge MPs as they say current 24-week limit is out of date

Abortion time limits should be scaled back to just 22 weeks, down…

Cancer-stricken man, 41, given nine months to live astonishes doctors as world-first treatment rids him of brain tumour

A cancer-stricken man given months to live has stunned doctors after his…

After Keir Starmer was urged to 'shed a few pounds' by Labour's Peter Mandelson, how does the leader's lifestyle shape up against Rishi Sunak?

Running the country requires being fit as a fiddle – so for…

How safe is it to give birth at YOUR local hospital? Use our interactive guide to every maternity unit in the country – as our analysis reveals that HALF of them are failing

The worrying state of maternity care in England’s hospitals is today revealed…

So much for the crackdown on 'health tourists'! NHS hospitals have lost a staggering £180million over last five years – the equivalent of £100,000 a day

Cash-strapped NHS hospitals have lost over £180million to ‘health tourists’ since a Government…

Health chiefs 'failed to sound alarm over potential dangers of Covid vaccines': MPs accuse regulator of putting Brits 'at serious risk' by not immediately sharing how Pfizer jabs could trigger extremely rare heart side effect

Britain’s medicines regulator has been accused of failing to sound the alarm…

Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby slams UK's 'unbearable' and 'cruel' assisted dying ban as he poignantly tells how MND slowly killed his younger brother Nicholas who wanted to 'decide when I stop'

Respected broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby has said the UK’s law against medically assisted death…

Generation Sicknote: How an obsession with mental health issues among 18- to 30-year-olds is setting up an entire generation to fail, as revealed in a study by PROFESSOR MATT GOODWIN

Britain is in the grip of an escalating crisis. Yet very few…

Brits could be treated by medics of the opposite sex without their knowledge or consent, as it is revealed 77 have changed their gender in last 20 years

Patients could be treated by medics of the opposite sex without their…

NADINE DORRIES: AI bots have written books about me too, so I sympathise with the King

Within hours of King Charles’s cancer diagnosis being revealed last Monday, AI-generated…

Ministers are urged to pay thousands victims of sodium valproate and vaginal mesh scandals £25,000 each in £600million compensation scheme

Thousands of women butchered by mesh and families of children left disabled…

Is your area a 'dental desert'? Interactive map reveals how queues for NHS check-ups have worsened for two-thirds of patients in England since Covid

Two in three patients in England have seen queues for NHS dentists…

Father, 50, pulls out his own tooth with pliers after failing to get an NHS dentist appointment for six months

A father was forced to pull out a loose tooth with a…

Brits are flying to war-torn Ukraine for dental treatment due to NHS crisis – as Labour revives Margaret Thatcher-era Tory attack ad to claim 'dentistry isn't working' with picture of snaking queue outside new surgery

Brits are flying to Ukraine for dental treatment because of the ever-worsening NHS crisis.…

Hangover-free beer and wine is coming to Britain: Specially-crafted 'booze' contains NO alcohol but still gets you 'tipsy'

Hangovers may be a thing of the past. For alcohol-free beer and…