A nurse who provides care, compassion and help to terminally ill patients has triumphed as the Kent Messenger's Hospital Hero.

As temperatures plunge, health bosses have shared their tips on how to avoid the winter vomiting bug.

Key health services in Medway, including mental health and domestic violence prevention, face a £1 million cut under new government budgeting.

Everyone has different tips for losing weight, but two men have decided a bit of healthy competition is the best way to help them shed body fat.

A grandfather has been allowed home - nearly two months after he's believed to have contracted Legionnaires disease at a hotel.

Call for support as unpaid carers in the Towns save the country a whopping £500m every year.

The number of assaults reported against staff at a hospital trust has surged by almost 25%.

A popular 16-year-old girl who died of meningitis just days after being diagnosed has been remembered as talented, funny and charismatic by friends.

A care home, likened to an institution, has been deemed unsafe and put into special measures by the health watchdog.

Police have launched an investigation after a suspicious package destroyed in a controlled explosion was declared a hoax.

A care home has been criticised for refusing to pay more than £6,000 owed to the bereaved family of a former resident.

A gran was left with a fractured eye socket after being attacked by three men and a woman.

A Kent man who was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year says he is determined to raise as much money as possible for charity.

Despite improvements, a hospital trust remains in special measures following a week-long inspection.

A mum of five who lost half her body weight has been told to put a stone back on... because she's too skinny!

A lack of staff and training have been blamed for violent scenes witnessed by inspectors at a Kent care home.

A new diabetes prevention programme to identify people likely to develop the condition is being trialled in the Towns.

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The family of a DJ who died of a cocaine overdose at a party believe there were failings in the investigation into his death, a coroner has heard.

A Kent MP has apologised after facing a backlash for suggesting some poor families facing tax credit cuts needed to "go without" to make ends meet.