It is known as the 'Celtic Curse', a potentially fatal genetic condition which has an unusually high prevalence among those ...

Four in every 10 cancer patients treated with chemotherapy develop severe peripheral nerve pain, a new review suggests.

Maite Rodriguez and her husband gave their sick 6-year-old daughter a lifeline when their conceived a second child via IVF ...

A number of women in the UK are using vaginal oestrogen on their faces. Yes, you read that correctly. Staggeringly, it's more ...

Haemochromatosis is the most common genetic condition in Scotland with work ongoing to improve prevention of serious illness among patients.

Through my teens, the pain became more frequent ... filled with menstrual blood that occur with endometriosis) on my left ovary, one as big as a lime and the other the size of a grape.

I was kicking myself for the fact that I had to go back to the office instead of having planned to go straight home when I felt a rising heat in my body that rapidly turned into a swell of nausea.” ...

I then had to sit and sip water for 15 minutes in the waiting area before I felt safe to take an Uber back to the office. In the car, every bump in the road exacerbated the pain I was feeling.

"My left breast felt different—hard and full ... the risk of breast cancer - by 45 per cent to 85 per cent - and ovarian cancer - by 10 per cent to 46 per cent. "This is a hereditary condition ...