Cancer patients are turning to vitamin supplements instead of dramatically improving their chances of survival through exercise and losing weight, an expert has warned.

Genetic mutations linked with leukaemia are “almost inevitable” as people get older, new research suggests.

The widower of a terminally ill hospital patient has won a landmark ruling that her human rights were violated because she was not consulted before a "do not resuscitate" notice was placed on her records.

Research into allergies which concludes that a tolerance to peanuts can be built up slowly has been welcomed by the country’s only expert in allergies among children.

Children can be protected from the dangerous effects of peanut allergy by slowly building up their tolerance, research has shown.