Manchester’s LGBT Foundation is calling for gay and bisexual men to be granted the freedom to donate blood.

Patients and campaigners are rallying together as the announcement comes that many of Greater Manchester’s hospitals are set to be downgraded after Healthier Together’s review of healthcare.

Patients at a Trafford care home have been left feeling unsafe as they are treated by ‘strangers’ and given incorrect doses of their medicine, a Care Quality Commission report reveals.

A&E waiting times could plummet at one of Manchester’s largest hospitals this week as a successful national initiative kicks into action there.

A new method of testing could be able to predict early whether rheumatoid arthritis sufferers will fail to respond to the biologic drugs used to treat them, according to a University of Manchester study.

With more than 1,900 babies born every day in the UK, it’s no surprise that there are a handful of ways to aid women deliver birth their babies in the best way that suits them.

A mental health advocacy group has accused Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust of ‘harassing’ its members in an attempt to ‘cut off an avenue for mental health patients and campaigners’.

This is the poetic plea of a brave Wythenshawe tot, Jessica Rooney, who cannot walk or talk and would love a walking frame to help her explore – and she needs your help to get it.

Minister for Life Sciences George Freeman has suggested that people should be forced to pay extra for their unhealthy snacks and sugary drinks in order to tackle obesity. MM takes to the streets to find out Manchester’s opinion of a potential sugar tax.

Once again – for the second week running – Network Rail have called off their national strikes that were set to affect hundreds of thousands of commuters across the country.

A paper authored by University of Manchester health economists suggests the Conservative government’s proposed plans for introducing a seven-day NHS service is not the most cost-effective means of doing so.