The six-time Olympic cycling champion said ‘millions of lives’ could be saved if men were tested earlier
Proposals to raise university tuition fees could exacerbate the dire shortage of nurses in the UK, nursing leaders have warned.
The effect of low staffing and a struggling mental health workforce has been shown to negatively impact the safety of patients by a new report from the Health Services Safety Investigations Body...
Limiting sugar in the first 1000 days of life ‘significantly reduces the diabetes and hypertension risk decades later’
Reeves hailed this the biggest increase ‘outside of Covid,’ but health charities cautioned that patients may not feel the impact
Climate change because of greenhouse gas emissions caused more than 38,000 deaths in Europe, which could ‘put a healthy future further out of reach’
The Health and Social Care Secretary said he would oppose the move because he was worried that palliative care ‘was not good enough to give people a real choice’
With the number of diagnoses above the five-year average, people are being urged not to ignore itchy rashes, indicating a highly infectious skin contagion
The ban will be effective from June 2025 to ‘protect the environment and keep them out of the hands of vulnerable people’
Donanemab was called a ‘gamechanger,’ but the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said it did not offer ‘enough benefit to justify the additional cost to the NHS’
With currently no vaccine against the vomiting bug, chief investigators in the trial said the jab could bring ‘huge health and economic benefits’
Regular vaping increased by 6% in 2018 to 9% in 2022, which health leaders have called ‘incredibly concerning’
Richard Meddings notified the Health and Social Care Secretary of his decision, but will continue to play a role in the creation of the 10 Year Health Plan over the coming months
Breast cancer remains the UK’s most common cancer, accounting for 15% of diagnoses, and the most common cause of death for women aged 50-64
Melanie Thomas provides an update on management of lympoedema in those with breast cancer
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