Commissioning Support Unit confirm services currently provided by Clinicenta will transfer to East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

The deadly microscopic amoeba made its way up 12-year-old Kali Hardig's nose to her brain during a visit to the Willow Springs lake in Arkansas

The world’s largest tobacco firm created a database tracking every British MP’s opinion on plain cigarette packaging as part of its successful lobbying campaign to block the rules, it was claimed on Sunday.

Labour condemns 'most audacious sell-off to date'

Italy’s dubious relationship with far-right politics is in the spotlight again with news that an unabashed neo-Nazi doctor has been reported to the country’s health ministry.

Conservative party election strategist denies discussed tobacco issues with PM or Health Secretary

He says claims made that he 'sought to improperly use his position' as campaign advisor were 'simply false'

Research among 500 Australian smokers has shown that smokers find cigarettes in plain packs less appealing

Sell-off puts blood supply at risk, warns Lord Owen

In what seems like another age, but was actually February this year, David Cameron made a sober, non-partisan Commons statement on the Francis report’s exposure of the gruesome failings of the Mid Staffs Hospitals Trust.

A major tobacco firm told the Government it was too early to assess whether selling cigarettes in plain packets would deter smokers – six months before ministers deployed the same argument.

Has his work for a tobacco giant had any influence over government policy?

The results of an independent review show concerns raised by family members over the care of their dying loved ones

Doctors' leaders and medical charities said lives would be lost because of the move