A surgeon found to have stripped naked in a toilet cubicle and inferred to a colleague that they have sex in it has been struck off the medical register. Dr Samuel Stefan was working at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth when the junior colleague who had been chatting with him online organised to meet […]

Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent BBC Listen to Pallab Ghosh read this article Larissa Hope truly believes that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, saved her life. Back when she was 17 and starting out as an actress, she was cast in the TV drama Skins, but the new-found fame brought out a previously buried trauma.

Contributed Edward was one of the first children in England to be given the gene therapy Zolgensma through the NHS A five-year-old boy who received the world’s most expensive drug as a baby has made “incredible progress” and can walk independently, his mother said. Edward, from Colchester, has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) which means he

A woman says she felt “so guilty” for having skin cancer while pregnant with her son. Emma Giannuzzi, 36, from Rogerstone, Newport, used sunbeds regularly in her late teens and was diagnosed with melanoma twice – first at 23, and again during pregnancy after noticing a mole on her stomach, with tests after giving birth

A Worthing first responder is backing a campaign to address gender inequality in life-saving treatment during cardiac arrests. Research shows women are 27% less likely than men to receive CPR from bystanders. Campaigners say stigma and uncertainty about removing bras for defibrillator use are part of the problem. The initiative, called #BraOffDefibOn, was launched in

The amount of flu circulating has started to fall in England, latest data suggests. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said it was encouraging news heading into Christmas, but warned the virus could always bounce back in the new year. The UKHSA uses a range of different measures to monitor flu rates, including sample testing

PA Media Phoebe and Callum Melly pictured leaving the Evelina London Children’s Hospital with Bertie A toddler who has been in hospital for most of his life is preparing to spend his first Christmas at home after finally being discharged. Nineteen-month-old Bertie Melly had severe health issues when he was born prematurely at 24 weeks,

Lynette HorsburghNorth West Cancer Research UK handout Sophie Claxton says it was a huge shock being told she had cancer A student who thought she had flu has described being “shell-shocked” when she was told she had cancer. Sophie Claxton, from Burnley, Lancashire, was 16 and in her first year at college when her mother

Available for over a year With the festive season approaching in parts of the world, Ruth Alexander explores what’s actually happening in the body during a hangover, why some people suffer more than others, and whether common remedies make any real difference. How the body processes alcohol and why that can make you feel so

A shortage of epidural kits in the UK is expected to last until at least March, the government’s medicines regulator has warned. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) told healthcare providers in a patient safety alert earlier this month that the shortage followed manufacturing issues concerning epidural bags. Hospitals are being sent substitutes