Early treatment alleviates symptoms but only 37 per cent of doctors are trained to identify it

A new TV programme tracking urban foxes has been a surprise hit

The hedge fund manager Philip Falcone has agreed to scale back his role at the tottering wireless internet venture LightSquared as he fights to save the company from bankruptcy.

Confidence among GPs that the Government's NHS reforms will improve patient care has almost halved since they were first proposed, an opinion poll shows.

Two-thirds of the new bodies charged with running health services under the Government's controversial reforms have hired a bureaucrat, not a doctor, as their boss.

Swathes of senior GPs stand to profit from the Government's contentious NHS reforms through shares they hold in private medical companies, research has found, raising further concerns about potential conflicts of interest within the health system.

Kenneth Clarke's plans to toughen up community orders by tracking offenders with high-tech ankle tags and ensuring every sentence is a punishment could increase reoffending, the Government's own impact assessment showed today.

With just five rooms modelled on different corners of the globe, this guesthouse offers an intimate stay, says Graeme Green

The ‘green gym’ provides exercise, therapeutic relaxation ... and it’s dirt cheap, says top medic

Patients will die as a result of the Government's reforms to the NHS, the editor of a respected medical journal claimed yesterday.

Chris Hewett tidies up the remaining questions over who should land the England coaching job

Chris Hewett tidies up the remaining questions over the England coaching job

GPs to stand against top Lib Dems and Tories in 2015 general election as more than 240 medics launch national campaign in letter to The Independent on Sunday