2 h. ago World's first lung cancer vaccine to enter clinical trials... but quitting smoking is still recommended as top way to avoid developing the disease

Patients at high risk of potentially deadly lung cancer will soon be able to receive the world's first ever vaccine designed to prevent the disease.

Science

27 h. ago Man who cryogenically froze his wife so he could resurrect her finds new girlfriend

Gui Junmin made headlines in 2017 when he decided to freeze his wife Zhan Wenlian's body after she died from lung cancer, hoping that one day technological advancements would bring her back to life

Politics

45 h. ago Christmas travel chaos threat as 4 days of rail strikes announced

Rail workers will be striking over staffing shortages, pay disputes and 'broken commitments'

Events

61 h. ago Rogue bosses face Budget crackdown with more ‘naming and shaming’ over minimum wage breaches

ROGUE bosses are set for more regular “naming and shaming” to ensure they pay national minimum wage workers the full amount.  Businesses breaking the rules will have no hiding place in a government crackdown on unscrupulous bosses in the Budget. Proposals include more regular rounds of publicly naming employers who have broken the pay rules and short-changed...

Economics

67 h. ago Popular Notting Hill restaurant 'hired illegal worker to avoid taxes and pay'

Immigration enforcement officers raided Sadaf, in Westbourne Grove, following a ‘tip off’

Economics

3 d. ago Sir Keir Starmer reveals death of his brother Nick hit him 'like a bus' as he opens up about grief on TOWIE star Pete Wicks' podcast

The Prime Minister revealed that for 18 months, he was smuggled in and out of the hospital for secret visits to see his brother Nick, who was battling lung cancer .

Events

3 d. ago Levies push up energy price cap despite fall in wholesale costs

Ofgem nudges up price cap after Labour election pledge to bring down household bills

Economics

3 d. ago Cancer Detectives: Finding the Cures review – this vaccine documentary is so inspirational it’ll make you weep

The tale of Prof Sarah Blagden’s attempt to find a treatment that stops the disease is the rarest of things – TV that makes you dare to hopeCancer Detectives: Finding the Cures should come with a rare warning: may make you feel hopeful for humanity and marginally less convinced that we are all willingly leaping into a handcart and smoothing our own paths to hell.This is an hour that outlines the work being done to create vaccines against cancers. Lung cancer, specifically, at the moment – 50,000 cases of which are diagnosed each year in the UK and which is the most common cause of cancer-related death – but with the potential to prevent many more types in the future. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago The man who froze his wife and got a new girlfriend: a stranger, sadder tale than I expected | Imogen West

The story has sparked debates about cryogenics and fidelity. But it also tells us something deeper about our responses to loss One of the last remaining fun things about the internet is getting to pass judgment on the goings-on in households that you would never hear about otherwise. On Reddit, for instance, there is a whole thriving sub for just this purpose called Am I the Asshole?, where people describe conflicts from their lives and ask strangers to adjudicate on them.This week, a story on the BBC threw up a particularly juicy piece of other people’s business that has been sparking debates on Chinese social media. It starts in 2017, when Gui Junmin decided to cryogenically freeze his wife, Zhan Wenlian, after she died of lung cancer. She was the first Chinese person to undergo this procedure, which was paid for by a science research institute in Jinan, east China, that agreed with Gui to preserve his wife’s body for 30 years. Reports suggest Zhan herself consented to the process...

Politics

6 d. ago Are YOU at risk from odourless gas that creeps into your home and gives you lung cancer? Some areas of the UK are more at risk

Unless buildings are specifically tested for this gas, it can go undetected because it is odourless. Yet only 7 per cent of households in higher-risk areas have ever tested their homes for it.

Society

9 d. ago ‘Red cup rebellion’: striking Starbucks baristas urge customers to stay away

In Brooklyn, workers walked off the job in search of fair pay and conditions – and said many customers were in supportAt a popular Starbucks in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill, hundreds of people – including workers, union allies, and community supporters – filled the sidewalks. In 40F (4.4C) weather, picketers held signs, marched, and chanted “What’s disgusting? Union-busting!” and “No contract, no coffee!”More than a thousand Starbucks workers across the US walked off the job on Thursday in over 40 cities, marking one of the largest coordinated actions yet by the rapidly-growing union movement inside the world’s largest coffee chain. Continue reading...

Economics

1 week ago England cricket icon Andrew Strauss, 48, set to marry PR exec fiancée 18 years his junior in South Africa

The former England captain's new marriage comes seven years after his first wife Ruth McDonald died aged 46 following a battle with a rare form of lung cancer on December 29, 2018.

Politics

1 week ago The Latest: Federal offices reopen as the government shutdown ends

President Donald Trump has signed a government funding bill, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks

Politics

1 week ago Groundbreaking new mouse study turns what we know about cancer on its head

Approximately 226,650 new cases and 124,730 deaths from lung cancer are expected in the U.S. this year

Politics

1 week ago Disabled people effectively stop earning from today due to pay gap

The disability pay gap has slightly decreased from last year, but more still needs to be done, the government has been warned

Politics

1 week ago Another day in Starmer's socialist paradise: 1,000 jobs a day are LOST under Reeves

Figures from the ONS revealed a spike in job losses as the Budget approaches, with a 64,000 decline in the number of payrolled workers over September and October and 180,000 over a year

Politics

1 week ago Doctors alarmed by rise in specific type of cancer in young women

Experts say the increase in lung cancer among non-smokers is mainly due to radon, air pollution, and genetic mutations

Events

1 week ago UK unemployment rises to 5%, the highest level in four years

ONS says jobs market worsening before budget, as HMRC reports falling number of workers on firms’ payrollsBusiness live – latest updatesUnemployment in the UK has risen by more than expected to the highest level in four years, official figures show, amid a worsening slowdown in the jobs market before Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget.With under three weeks to go before the chancellor’s tax and spending statement, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the headline unemployment rate rose to 5.0% in the three months to the end of September, up from 4.8% in the previous quarter. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Jeremy Clarkson leads tributes to former Top Gear presenter who died aged 68

Quentin Willson passed away on Saturday after a short battle with lung cancer, and his former Top Gear co-host Jeremy Clarkson has paid tribute to him on social media

Events

2 w. ago 'I was in incredible pain... the doctor said it was just discomfort from breastfeeding': Gini was a non

When Gini Harrison began experiencing shoulder pain after the birth of her second child she believed that it was probably a pulled muscle from breastfeeding.

Politics