As many as 2,500 more organs could be made available for transplant in the UK if families spoke more openly about donating after death, says the NHS Blood and Transplant organisation.
Cancer now causes more deaths among the middle-aged in higher-income countries than cardiovascular disease, a study suggests.
A mobile phone app has speeded up the detection of a potentially fatal kidney condition in hospital patients.
A strain of the common cold virus can infect and kill bladder cancer cells, a small study suggests.
The "dangerous myth" that gay and bisexual women cannot get cervical cancer means thousands could be missing out on screening, NHS England says.
NHS patients with lymphoma have for the first time been given a pioneering treatment that genetically reprogrammes their immune system to fight cancer.
Hundreds of UK men are trying out a new screening test for prostate cancer to see if it should eventually be offered routinely on the NHS.
A man who woke from a coma to discover both his arms and legs had been amputated and part of his face removed has called for mandatory training on sepsis for NHS staff.
More young people under 50 are being diagnosed with bowel cancer, two studies of the disease in European and high-income countries have found.
The drugs, including losartan, belong to a class of widely used medicines for treating high blood pressure called angiotensin II receptor blockers, or ARBs
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