Nick TriggleHealth correspondent Getty Images The public inquiry into the Covid pandemic has cost the government more than £100m to respond to so far, the BBC has learnt. This is on top of the £192m spent by the inquiry itself – meaning the cost to the taxpayer is over 50% more than previously thought. The […]

Andy GiddingsWest Midlands Family photo Sharon Price said she wanted to avoid the need for surgery A woman who successfully underwent a newly-approved form of cancer treatment has said it allowed her to avoid the need for surgery. The method, known as Papillon, uses low energy X-rays to treat rectal cancer patients and it has

Getty Images Fewer than half of eligible people in London have take up the free flu vaccine so far The number of 999 calls in London has risen over the past week, with London Ambulance Service (LAS) reporting its three busiest days of 2025 in a row. The service said the 20% increase included more

Michelle RobertsDigital health editor Getty Images Fewer than one in 10 people who could benefit from obesity jabs like Wegovy are able to get them, warns the World Health Organization as it releases its first guidance on the drugs. With more than one billion people worldwide now obese, it is calling for more widespread and

Women aged in their 50s and 60s have been urged to practise safe sex after a rise in new cases of HIV in heterosexual groups. As World Aids Day is marked, campaigners say women in this age group could be at greater risk of catching the virus because some are not using condoms. Blue Sky

Megan Daviesand Carwyn John,BBC Wales Ray Burmiston Russell T Davies, creator of It’s a Sin, has written about life in the ’80s when there was no treatment for HIV It’s a Sin writer Russell T Davies has warned “the fight is not over” when it comes to eradicating HIV. He said misinformation about the virus

A council has unanimously voted to become the first endometriosis friendly local authority in the north of England. Deputy mayor of Redcar Ceri Cawley was diagnosed with the condition in her early 20s and has struggled with “agonising pain” for years. As well as Redcar and Cleveland Council, Southwark and Stoke-on-Trent City councils, have joined

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

James GallagherHealth and science correspondent Getty Images A screening programme for prostate cancer in all men is not justified, according to a hugely influential group of experts. Instead they say only men with specific genetic mutations that lead to more aggressive tumours should be eligible. That would rule out black men who have double the

Joanne WrittleWest Midlands health correspondent, in Shropshire BBC Kayleigh Griffiths lost her one-day-old daughter, Pippa due to maternity failings When Kayleigh Griffiths lost her baby daughter, Pippa, in 2016 through maternity failings in Shropshire, she had no idea how many times she would have to retell her traumatic story at future medical appointments. She has