Almost two and a half thousand potentially life-saving tests have been carried out at Hull’s new Community Diagnostic Centre ...

A ‘SUPER VACCINE’ could stop three types of cancer in their tracks – shrinking tumours and preventing spread. US researchers ...

Doing targeted COPD case finding as part of NHS lung cancer checks could save £33m over the next decade, research has shown.

Background The diagnosis of interstitial lung disease (ILD) can pose a challenge as the pulmonary function test (PFT) is only minimally affected at the onset. To improve early diagnosis, this study ...

IT’S the most common cancer affecting women – and strikes men too. Breast cancer kills 11,500 people each year in the UK. But ...

After one year, your risk of a heart attack will have halved compared with that of a smoker. According to the British Heart Foundation, around 100,000 hospital admissions each year are due to heart ...

In December last year, John Pengelly’s story made local and national news. The former army captain, of Bradford, was an ...

Background: Sepsis-associated acute lung injury (SA-ALI) is a severe complication of sepsis with high mortality. This study aimed to identify key diagnostic genes and potential therapeutic drugs for ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford are developing a new breathing test that could detect asthma and COPD earlier and more accurately.

An NHS trust has become the first in England to offer a new ovarian cancer surveillance test for women with an inherited risk of the disease. Women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations are known to be ...

Lung cancer Lung cancer continues to be the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., yet screening rates remain low. One major reason is the stigma tied to smoking, which discourages many people ...