Ethan Ennals

There's never a good time to be given a terminal cancer diagnosis. But for Professor Kevin Mortimer, the news came on his daughter's 11th birthday...

It has been hailed as a game‑changing moment for slimmers. Earlier this month, a new pill form of Wegovy - the blockbuster weight‑loss jab - was approved for use in the UK.

Patients with an incurable lung disease can now access a revolutionary injection that can help prevent life-threatening flare-ups.

So-called yo-yo dieting has long been considered a health risk - and in some cases has been labelled as more harmful than remaining overweight.

People who spend, on average, less than 42 minutes outside every day are significantly more likely to develop the incurable brain disease, according to Chinese researchers.

For Michelle Moore, hot summer days were the worst. Since her late 20s, the 58-year-old council worker had been living with painful and disfiguring varicose veins.

It's the drug that midlife women increasingly claim is the key to finally overcoming menopause symptoms, banishing fatigue and reviving their libido.

For nearly a decade, Aida Azizii struggled with a hormonal disorder that affects millions of women across the United States, fighting a constant battle with her weight.

A record number of Britons are now taking the daily pills, which were once offered only to a small number of children but are increasingly being given to adults.

It was the summer of 2014, I was deep into A-level revision and my mornings all began the same way.