Last week’s World Cancer Day brought organisations and people around the world together to raise awareness about cancer and work to make it a global health priority.
The government has asked the NHS, suppliers and pharmaceutical companies to order six additional weeks worth of medicines in case supplies are disrupted by a no deal Brexit.
A study which suggests that half of the world’s cases of Parkinson’s disease are undiagnosed is just one being carried out by a North East NHS trust’s research team.
Around a fifth of staff at the NHS trust running hospitals in Northumberland and North Tyneside have experienced abuse or violence in the past year, a survey suggests.