Senior Manchester health official brands paying NHS doctors to diagnose dementia ‘politically motivated’ and says it ‘raises ehtical considerations’

A controversial personal DNA test that can tell people whether they are at risk of cancer and other diseases is now available in the UK.

Teachers at Cheadle Hulme School nicknamed ‘Hogwarts’ have sparked anger among parents by arranging to send pupils on a Christmas field trip to Africa – just 400 miles from the deadly Ebola zone.

MM took to the streets of Manchester to see how many of you knew it was Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Vernacare, founded 50 years ago, has been chosen as part of the UK Governments emergency response

Senior health officials are reassuring those in Manchester and the rest of the UK that the risk of Ebola spreading across the country is ‘very low’.

MM has compiled the facts on what we know about the deadly Ebola virus

An aid worker based in Africa accused parents at a Stockport Catholic primary school of treating her nine-year-old son ‘like a leper’ today after he was banned from joining classes over unfounded fears he had Ebola.

Alcohol-related liver disease affects more people in Manchester than anywhere else in the UK, new figures show.

Gay and bisexual men across Greater Manchester will be celebrating with the Lesbian and Gay Foundation (LGF) in recognition of 20 years of safer-sex packs.

The heartwarming kindness of strangers overwhelmed a Salford mum after she met the ‘selfless’ woman who saved her teenage daughters’ life from the grip of leukaemia.