Elderly Care

Drug companies are blocking or delaying the entry of cheaper generic medicines into the EU, the European Commission says.

A South African scientist warns that gross underinvestment in water management has left it at risk of a cholera outbreak.

The UK is to give South Africa’s new Health Minister Barbara Hogan £15m to help combat Aids in the country.

Measles cases in England and Wales have topped 1,000 in a year for the first time in more than a decade, figures show.

Teenagers with cancer are excluded from clinical trials which could improve their survival chances, UK research shows.

Vaccinating parents of newborns against whooping cough could prevent fatal infections in babies, say doctors.

A mouse experiment has raised hopes of halting some of the effects of Down’s syndrome before birth.

An American woman who was the world’s oldest person for a year dies at the age of 115.

One in 10 people has tried to cut down on processed meats such as bacon in the wake of a report linking them to cancer, a survey says.

A New Zealand doctor is convicted of drink-driving, despite blaming an alcohol handwash he used in surgery.