The international tobacco industry makes about £30 billion in profits each year – a profit of approximately £6,000 per death from smoking....

Allan Cowie, general manager for Macmillan Cancer Support in Scotland, has revealed that after fear of pain, money worry is patients’ great...

What is the value of a few precious extra months of life? It's a very difficult question to answer, but if Scottish Medicines Consortiu...

New research by a leading charity reveals that hundreds of cancer patients are living close to the breadline due to their illness, with 73% ...

Professor David Cameron , an expert in breast cancer from Edinburgh University, said new treatments were increasingly being developed which...

A senior consultant surgeon has spoken out against screening patients for bowel cancer in Scotland’s most deprived areas... because they are...

I read that David Lloyd, 62, was told he had terminal lung cancer in January 2006, his wife, Annette Edwards, contacted their bank, the Hal...

Writing in the European Journal of Oncology, Prof Watterson, an expert in occupational health, said "In Scotland more people die from o...

Previously reported here has been the inherent failure of the National Health Service due to the constraints of capitalism to offer full eff...

A poll by Macmillan Cancer Support suggests nearly half of cancer patients in England are being forced to cut back on basic necessities in ...

We here at Socialist Courier have frequently posted stories that reveal the class link concerning health -- the wealthier you are , the bet...

A cancer patient who was forced to pay out £3,400 per fortnight for the life-saving drug cetuximab has won his battle for funding , having p...

Women from deprived backgrounds are treated differently and have a lower breast cancer survival rate than more affluent women , says a study...

Bucharest will witness a protest demonstration of a grisly kind today. The streets of the Romanian capital will be filled with cancer patien...