The MV Hondius arrived in Tenerife on Sunday morning, with Spanish authorities starting evacuations of the ship by ...

Passengers aboard the rat-virus cruise ship will be taken to a hospital in Merseyside when they land in Britain.

Health chiefs are racing to contain a rare hantavirus outbreak after British cruise passengers were flown back to the UK and ...

The number of complaints about advertisements for health supplements filed with Britain's watchdog has more than doubled in ...

Millions of older and vulnerable people in England can now book their spring Covid-19 jabs. Officials stress that previous immunity “can wane over time”, urging eligible individuals to book an ...

Palantir, a US data analytics company backed in its early years by In-Q-Tel, now plays a central role in the NHS’s £330 million Federated Data Platform. Supporters say it could improve planning and ...

Britain’s pandemic vaccine rollout was an “extraordinary feat” but people harmed by jabs were let down, the Covid-19 Inquiry has found. The biggest public inquiry in British history said 450,000 lives ...

Christopher Shaun Thompson was based overseas when his three co-accused appeared at court for similar offences last month. But the 36-year-old defendant, of Thorpe Crescent, Horden, did attend, as ...

We're pausing our live updates after the fourth module report was published by the COVID inquiry. The report focused on vaccine and therapeutic programmes, and said they were "two of the success ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Four years after the spread of a novel coronavirus first prompted U.S. officials to shutter schools and limit public gatherings, misinformation about the virus persists. False claims that COVID-19 ...