Entries by BBC News

Emma Barnett: Fighting Endometriosis /in /by

Emma Barnett exposes the devastating reality of endometriosis and its toll on women.

‘I’ve requested a full hysterectomy’ /in /by

Emma Barnett shares her life-long struggle with endometriosis – a disease affecting one in ten women of reproductive age, which causes excruciating, often debilitating, pain.

‘I’ve requested a full hysterectomy’ /in /by

Emma Barnett shares her life-long struggle with endometriosis – a disease affecting one in ten women of reproductive age, which causes excruciating, often debilitating, pain.

Three Ebola vaccines in development amid growing outbreak fears /in /by

IAVI, Moderna and the University of Oxford are all working on new vaccines.

‘Why I’m showing my hernia online’ /in /by

Amy Bamford turned to social media to seek advice about her hernia.

Emma Barnett: We can’t ignore this disease that leaves one in 10 women like me in agony /in /by

Women tell the BBC presenter how endometriosis affects their lives, as she challenges ministers to take action.

‘Don’t be too kind’: Stories from the maternity unit where mums were failed /in /by

BBC Panorama has seen documents and spoken to former midwives from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Daily pill doubles survival time for pancreatic cancer patients /in /by

The drug, daraxonrasib, has been hailed as a breakthrough in managing the deadliest of all the major cancers.

Checks reveal young women with deadly ‘silent’ heart risk /in /by

Sudden cardiac death can happen without warning, and it's not just a problem for sporty young men, say experts.

Why renaming my health condition could help other women /in /by

Rochelle Lewis is among more than 170 million woman globally to be diagnosed with PCOS.