Free blood pressure checks at community pharmacies have helped prevent strokes in the West Midlands. On Stroke Prevention Day, which falls on Thursday (January 30), residents aged 40 and over are ...

A number of health risk factors can dramatically raise your risk to suffer a devastating stroke - now a charity reveals ...

Each year around 1,000 people choose to donate one of their kidneys - people with two parents of Black African and Black ...

Hundreds of potential kidney donors of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage in the UK can now get a simple blood test to help reduce the risk of kidney failure.

Every year, health leaders in England publish national planning guidance for the NHS, which sets out the key priorities for ...

A GP and a nutritionist have explained how to quickly diagnose a deficiency and what you can do about it at home ...

GPs should ask patients who may be at risk of gambling-related harms about their habits, according to a new NICE clinical ...

Healthcare professionals should consider asking people about gambling when speaking to them about smoking and alcohol consumption during a health check or GP appointment, new guidance recommends.

On urging health workers to consider asking people about gambling if they are a young person who has recently flown the nest, ...

More men are getting checked for prostate cancer and realising they have the disease at an early stage, but charity Prostate ...

CANCER, dementia, heart disease and stroke are among the biggest killers in the UK. So is it any wonder that Sun readers fear ...