Jeannie Ambrose, one of about 1,000 affected patients, says the drug should be made available on the NHS

The easily spreadable virus can affect people of all ages and have huge consequences during winter.

A new drug that slows the pace of Alzheimer's disease is too expensive for too little benefit to be used on the NHS, the watchdog says.

A court challenge means the government will look again at the cap on the Disabled Facilities Grant.

From 'fruitless' dating to financial pressures, people share their views on falling fertility rates.

One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.

The Olympic cycling champion, who has terminal cancer, wants more younger men to get checked.

The panel of 28 felt it was important to give people choice, but only if they were terminally ill.

A woman with terminal cancer is calling on the government to "urgently" reform assisted dying laws.

His comments came ahead of an assisted dying bill being introduced to Parliament.

Dame Sally Davies told the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry she had worried about the disposal of the nerve agent.

People in England will be able to get free varenicline tablets to help them quit cigarettes.

A race for the lunar surface's resources is currently under way. What’s to stop a Wild West opening up?

After a successful launch, the upper-stage of the rocket goes on to experience an anomaly.

Studies of quakes detected from the planet's surface found it in the planet's rocky outer crust.

As Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spend months longer than planned on ISS, three astronauts tell us what life is like in orbit.

A capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station has docked.

The world's most powerful rocket is expected to be back in action again soon

A leading conservation group wants the government to give the go-ahead to bringing back beavers in the wild.

A new expedition finds that a large part of the railing at the ship's front has fallen away.

New legislation gives regulators more powers to tackle water pollution in England and Wales.

The UK's nuclear waste needs a permanent home - but finding a community willing to take it is tricky.

A UK law allowing gene-edited food has been paused and some British scientists fear being overtaken.

Scientists launched an investigation after being baffled by seismic signals picked up across the world

A public hearing is set to examine the events surrounding the catastrophic failure of Oceangate’s submersible.

Sir David Attenborough praises the "beauty" created by the BBC in its natural history shows.

A new study shows that the record-breaking rainfall was made more likely and intense by climate change.

The Sphinx, a patch of snow thought to be the longest-lasting in the UK, has melted for the fourth consecutive year.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton have bookended a particularly stormy period. What's behind it?

Nearly half of waste is now burned for energy, but BBC analysis finds it is as dirty as coal.

It was 200 times bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs nearly three billion years later.

The TV presenter says the previous Tory administration was "reckless" to scale back climate policy.

Climate change and sea ice loss leaves polar bears exposed to more diseases, research suggests.

The world is wildly off track in tackling climate change, the UN says, as CO2 in the atmosphere accumulates faster than ever

Scientists have revealed that more than a third of tree species are facing extinction.

Human-caused climate change made recent extreme weather events more intense and more likely, new analysis finds.

Representatives of 196 countries have been meeting in Cali, Colombia, as part of the COP biodiversity summit.

The Northern Taurids are at their peak on 11-12 November - but will the clouds part to let us see them?

Trump's election will hit immediate efforts to tackle climate change, experts say - but the longer-term effect is less certain.

It is also set to be the world's first breach of 1.5C of warming across an entire calendar year.

Undercover filming shows COP29 chief exec discussing new oil and gas projects ahead of climate summit.

Britain's oldest satellite is in the wrong part of the sky, but no-one's really sure who moved it.

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the sterile worlds scientists have long thought.

Sinwar, who topped Israel's most-wanted list, was a key figure believed to have been behind the 7 October attacks.

Over the past year, Aya and Khalid have been filming their lives for a BBC documentary.

The BBC's analysis editor Ros Atkins looks at footage said to show Yahya Sinwar's final moments.

The BBC’s Orla Guerin is taken on a tour of Al Sahel Hospital in Beirut.

Israel says it has conducted "precise strikes on military targets" in Iran.

The agency provides aid for Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere, and has long been criticised by Israel.

People in war-torn Gaza are already struggling with a deep humanitarian crisis but now they fear it will get much more difficult.