The study will use a purified form of the natural compound, with the trial also testing if drugs like aspirin and metformin can prevent the disease.

Derek ‘Benny’ Bennett, 72, served in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and the Middle East during 25 years in the Army.

Analysis by Asthma and Lung UK found lung diseases were responsible for one in eight emergency hospital admissions in England last year.

Scottish Football Association chief executive Ian Maxwell has told how he suffered an eyecare emergency that could have cost him the sight in one eye just before the Euros. He almost missed Scotland’s ...

The meeting kicks off against a backdrop of deadly weather events, extreme conditions and record temperatures in recent months.

The Dartford Crossing consists of a bridge and two tunnels, which connect Thurrock in Essex with Dartford in Kent.

An artificial intelligence tool being trialled in the NHS picks up relevant medical information while filtering out background chatter.

Jonny Huntington, who suffered a brain bleed in 2014, is aiming to become the first disabled person to succeed in this challenge.

Costs to councils to cover social care for working age and lifelong disabled adults could top £17 billion by 2030, projections have suggested amid a warning the proposed National Care Service risks ...

Draft assisted dying laws will feature the “strictest protections” against coercion anywhere in the world, the MP who tabled the proposed legislation at Westminster has promised. The Terminally Ill ...

An artist has commemorated Remembrance Day by painting poppies and soldiers on to used tea bags to honour those who “sacrificed their lives so we can live freely today”. Caroline West, 50, from ...