healthcare

The careers with the highest 'heart age', which calculates how old a person's heart is compared to their actual age, have been revealed by research by Bupa to coincide with World Heart Day.

The NHS Health Check programme is spending up to £450,000 per death avoided, which could be better spent, a report from the London School of Economics and University of Liverpool has said.

AIG has launched a new International Private Medical Insurance (IPMI) product, called Expatriate Care, for companies with five employees or more, with previous medical history disregarded.

The NHS has met the majority of its cancer waiting targets, however it has missed two, figures for July 2015 have revealed.

South Kent Coast NHS clinical commissioning group (CCG) is to sign a contract allowing two France-based healthcare providers to treat patients across the Channel.

The NHS has proposed removing some drugs from the list of those funded by the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF).

The four year crude survival rate for head and neck cancers varies by over 30% depending on the type of cancer, an audit has found.

Denplan has warned that ‘hidden' sugar is making it hard for people to manage their sugar consumption, and encouraged people to go sugar-free for September.

People are living longer but they are seeing more illness and disability in their older years, research published in the Lancet has found.

Older cancer patients are no less likely to refuse treatment than younger patients, but are less likely to receive treatment, research from Macmillan has found.