Lung cancer is known as the “invisible” or “forgotten” disease but lung cancer is a stark reality for more than 37,000 new patients in the UK every year – that’s one every 15 minutes.

The parents of a 17-month-old girl have told how surgeons used glue to seal tiny brain blood vessels that were threatening her life.

Asbestos-related cancer victims and their families have won an important test case over access to compensation.

Boys born to women exposed to hairspray in the workplace may have a higher risk of being born with a genital defect.

The government's plan to fine hospitals for not hitting Clostridium difficile targets is unfair, experts say.

Children held in UK detention centres are not getting the medical care they need, a leading medical journal warns.

Police are tackling the growing problem of drink-related crime by offering youngsters a re-education programme.

The makers of the anti-impotence drug Viagra have withdrawn an application for the medicine to be available without a prescription.

A man from north Oxfordshire credits his pet Rottweiler with sniffing out his skin cancer.

Almost two in five people who drink to excess lie to their doctor about how much alcohol they really consume, says a survey.

The direction a child is facing in their pram could affect their development and stress levels, a study suggests.

AP - Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy.

AP - Two years after the government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn't know it, scientists said Thursday.

AP - D'Zhana Simmons says she felt like a "fake person" for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. "But I know that I really was here," the 14-year-old said, "and I did live without a heart."

AP - The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions — but in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage.

AP - Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz.

Reuters - Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.

AFP - Pfizer has dropped its bid to market its potency pill Viagra over the counter in Europe, the US pharmaceutical giant announced Thursday.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Autism is a childhood developmental disorder that has no cure. Autistic children have problems with social interaction, communication, and may engage in repetitive behaviors.

Reuters - Like many other elderly Americans, Edie Stark has been hard hit by the meltdown in U.S. financial markets. She is 84 and has been worried a lot lately about outliving her savings.

ROCKVILLE, Md. (MedPage Today) -- The FDA has approved rufinamide (Banzel) as an adjunctive therapy for seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy.

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Screening embryos for chromosomal abnormalities before implantation can significantly reduce miscarriage rates in women with idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss, according to the largest study to date in this population.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (MedPage Today) -- Babies born during the fall months may be more likely to develop childhood asthma because of early exposure to cold and flu viruses, researchers found.

LONDON (MedPage Today) -- For moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients, daily treatment with a macrolide antibiotic reduced the rate of exacerbations, a randomized, placebo-controlled trial showed.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The CDC's 2006 recommendation that HIV testing should be essentially universal in healthcare, even for low-risk patients, has been largely unheeded, in part because many clinicians have declined to go along, said researchers here.

CAMPINAS, Brazil (MedPage Today) -- Performing water aerobics during pregnancy may ease the pain of delivery, a small, randomized trial found.

HOUSTON (MedPage Today) -- For second-line treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), oral gefitinib (Iressa) may be as effective as standard chemotherapy, researchers found.

MINNEAPOLIS (MedPage Today) -- The bathroom scale used at least once a week may encourage overweight teens to find healthy ways to shed unwanted pounds, researchers reported here.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (MedPage Today) -- Variation in the gene for the serotonin transporter appears to be linked to how much some alcoholics drink, researchers here said.

NEW YORK (MedPage Today) -- Expressions of religious feeling by participants in the Women's Health Initiative translated into a greater likelihood of survival during the study, researchers here said.

A five-year-old girl who suffered from severe epilepsy has been transformed by an operation that removed half her brain. Two years after the surgery, her mother Jessica Nelson said: ‘She just shines.’

Six of the country's biggest restaurant chains have pledged to serve more salad and slash levels of fat and salt in their products in an historic shift.

A boy of 12 collapsed and died after using 'copious' amounts of deodorant in a cramped bathroom, an inquest heard.

More than 10,000 people die needlessly each year because their cancers are not diagnosed in time, a study says.

Babies born in the autumn are up to 30 per cent more likely than other babies to develop asthma, researchers reveal.

A teenager survived for nearly four months without a heart until she was able to have a transplant, American doctors say.

Doing aqua-aerobics during pregnancy can ease the pain of childbirth, research shows.

The secrets of eternal youth are being unlocked by scientists. Experiments show that an enzyme called telomerase could be the key ingredient in an 'elixir of life'.

Baby buggies which face forwards may stunt children's development and turn them into anxious adults, according to a study.

Fewer fast-food adverts could take a bite out of childhood obesity figures, a comprehensive study suggests.