Governor Jerry Brown plans to undergo treatment for prostate cancer for the second time in four years.

This failure, which can lead to a lifetime of regret, is blamed on unfairly strict criteria for ‘fertility preservation’ treatment, as well as a lack of information to help women choose.

Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) is a progressive and fatal disorder that gradually robs children of the ability to speak and walk, and causes intellectual decline and memory loss.

The BBC presenter (pictured), who had a stroke almost four years ago and remains semi-paralysed on his left side, travelled to Florida to try a new anti-inflammatory drug called Etanercept.

Described as ‘a giant among journalists’, the Sunday Times columnist died on Saturday aged 62, three weeks after revealing he had the ‘full English’ of cancers.

A brave schoolboy whose campaign won the support of The Rolling Stones and top football players has lost his battle with cancer. West Ham fan Jack Howard, 12, of Kent, died at the weekend.

Daisy Wald penned the letter after her mother told her about Carolyn Gammon, of Cwmavon, South Wales, who is raising money for treatment not available through the health service.

An experimental treatment for Alzheimer's failed again in a widely anticipated study, disappointing many.

Researchers at Washington University in the US re-purposed the active form of vitamin D, calcitriol to treat patients with actinic keratosis and saw huge improvements in pre-cancerous skin sites.

Jill Charman and her husband Geoff, from Minstead, Hampshire, had their rights to visit great grandmother Peggy Taylor in her care home severely restricted.