Drug for deadly prostate cancer

Scientists say a drug to treat aggressive prostate cancer may be the most significant advance in the field for 70 years.

IMF funding ‘fuelling TB deaths’

Strict loan conditions have been blamed for thousands of extra TB deaths in eastern Europe and former Soviet republics.

Prostate hope

Simon Bush's life is transformed by a new cancer drug.

Tobacco ‘could help treat cancer’

The tobacco plant - a cause of cancer - may offer the means to treat one form of the disease, a study suggests.

Light therapy toothbrush ‘to beat plaque’

A mouthwash allows plaque-causing bacteria to be destroyed using nothing more than a bright light.