Entries by BBC News

How assisted dying has spread across the world and how laws differ

About 300 million people have access to some form of assisted dying - what are the policies of other countries?

More single women and female couples having IVF

Single women or female couples now account for one in six of all fertility treatments in the UK.

Supreme Court hearing case on definition of a woman

Judges will consider a legal challenge which could affect how women and trans people are treated.

Woman with brain injury faced insurance refusal

Jane Rubens' family say they faced accepting her return to the UK or having her insurance cancelled.

Give me prescription or I’ll kill you, nurse told

Humberside Police has received 411 reports of assaults and abuse towards GP staff over five years.

‘I had no idea being a social drinker would damage my liver by 31’

BBC journalist Hazel Martin was told she had liver fibrosis and must go teetotal or she could die.

Assisted dying bill about right to choose – minister

Labour’s cabinet remains divided on how to vote on Friday’s bill to legalise assisted dying.

Can RFK Jr make America’s diet healthy again?

Kennedy's plans to ban dyes in cereals and fluoride in water could get major pushback from the food industry.

A toxic staffing row is splitting the NHS

A toxic row has engulfed the NHS, say ministers. So why have doctors turned on physician associates?

Parents ‘devastated’ over daughter’s suspected poisoning death

Simone White died in Laos after drinking alcohol suspected to have been laced with methanol.