A doctor has said free prostate cancer tests are "crucial" to early diagnosis and is taking part in a scheme to raise awareness. Circle Reading Hospital has partnered with Reading Lions Club to host ...

The first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to universal type O used special enzymes developed at the University of British Columbia to help prevent a mismatch and ...

Scientists move one step closer to "universal" donor organs with a successful kidney transplant in a brain-dead patient.

A free prostate cancer testing event at a Reading Hospital is aiming to reach more than 1,000 men in a single day ...

The new test, called the risk of ovarian cancer algorithm (Roca), calculates a woman’s individual risk based on factors such as blood levels of the protein cancer antigen 125 (CA 125) over time, age, ...

The first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to universal type O used special enzymes developed at the University of British Columbia to help prevent a mismatch and ...

An NHS trust has become the first in England to offer a new ovarian cancer surveillance test for women with an inherited risk of the disease. Women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations are known to be ...

Some 200 men in Westmoreland turned out on September 25 for free prostate cancer screening hosted by the Misty Blue Cancer Care Foundation at Independence Park in Savanna-la-Mar, commemorating the ...

In a new study, Yale School of Medicine (YSM) researchers unveiled a novel diagnostic method for detecting leptospiral virulence-modifying (VM) proteins in the blood and urine of hamsters, an advance ...

The new test is called the Risk of Ovarian Cancer Algorithm (or Roca for short), and clinical studies have found it can halve the rate of women receiving a late-stage ovarian cancer diagnosis. This ...

Women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations are known to be at significantly higher risk of developing ovarian cancer as well as breast cancer.