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‘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.
Millions of breast cancer patients could safely avoid chemotherapy, study suggests/in /by
A new DNA test could help screen whether patients require the treatment or not, according to a new international trial.
Trump in excellent health after annual checkup, his doctor says/in /by
The White House releases the results of the US president's latest medical examination, which states he is "fully fit" to carry out his duties.