Tesco expands into medical insurance
Tesco has today announced it will start to sell private medical insurance.
Hardship and homelessness – a sting in the tail for cancer patients
Isabel Hardman on how charities Macmillan and Shelter come to the aid of the large number of sufferers who lose out financially.
Lost health, lost home, lost job – and no one to help
In 1993, Lee Burbidge was diagnosed with a rare cancer called musculoaponeurotic fibromatosis. He had six weeks of radiotherapy, then two years of physiotherapy after nerve damage led to the loss of the use of his arm. Lee's wife, Lynn, left her job to become his carer and, six months after the operation, they lost the business they had set up together.
£3m for man left with unstoppable sex drive
· Court told of head injury caused by fall at work· Churchgoing Christian's marriage at risk
Drugs giant warns on new heart treatment
8.15am: AstraZeneca has raised fresh fears over its threadbare drug development pipeline, admitting that its heart drug AGI-1067 is a 'very high-risk project'. By Julia Kollewe.
Employers told to help their staff get fit
The government's health advisers will tell people this week how companies must do more to get their staff on their feet in order to combat a nationwide epidemic of unfitness.
A better prescription
Mark Honigsbaum meets Karen Acott, who overcame parental fears about a career in medicine to become the first in her field to be a practice partner.
Medical students owe more than first year salary, says BMA
The average debt of a final-year medical student is now more than £21,000, says BMA - £1,000 more than the basic annual salary of a junior doctor.
Hold Hewitt to account over NHS deficits, say Tories
The health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, should be 'held to account' over a £94m national health service deficit, the Conservatives said today.