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Campaigners describe ‘brazenly discriminatory’ practices around funding from NHS care boards UK politics live – latest updates Disabled people must have a guaranteed right to travel abroad, MPs and peers have warned as…
Northern Roots is launching Britain’s biggest urban farm and eco-park, in an effort to boost people’s health and wellbeing Standing in the open green space of Northern Roots, it is hard to imagine the landscape as it…
Since the ancient Olympics, athletes like Hyrox competitor Joanna Wietrzyk have experienced runner’s diarrhoea. What does the science say about extreme exercise’s ‘mechanical jostling of the intestines’? Soiling…
Covered by The Guardian – Health, BBC News – Health, STAT News. Thousands with HER2-low advanced breast cancer will have access to Enhertu after ministers strike deal on price Thousands of women in England with incurable breast cancer will get access to a life-extending drug on the…
Review expected to say patients in England should be ‘triaged’ and offered support without formal diagnosis Proposals to limit the number of patients being formally diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity…
Driven by fine performances from Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall, Lance Hammer’s comeback is unbearable in its tragic candour and essential in its moral questioning This inexpressibly painful and sad story –…
As the country’s top public health official spends his time in office undermining science, doctors and advocates mount an urgent campaign for childhood vaccines On an early September morning, dozens of families stood in…
Analysis finds only 955 play professionals supporting 21 million child hospital admissions, leaving many traumatised for life Children in English hospitals with serious illnesses are being exposed to avoidable trauma…
Health committee chair Bill Cassidy said fatal outbreak of disease is a ‘terrible legacy’ for Trump administration Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republican chair of the US Senate health committee, blamed the Trump…
Tierra Walker, 37, was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia at 20 weeks, and family says denial of abortion led to death A wrongful death lawsuit filed on Tuesday accuses Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, doctors and…
Seeing a pallid, washed-out face in the mirror? Prepare to be diagnosed … Name: Ferritin face. Age: The name is new, but the symptoms are old. Continue reading...
Andrew Forsey urges the government to restore the link between free school meals and the holiday activities and food programme There are 500,000 children growing up in poorer families who are confronted by a similarly…
Lucy Letby case | At one’s peak | Leaving the debate | Cut from the same cloth | End of the odyssey | A word’s worth Re the Thirlwall report on the Lucy Letby case (Thirlwall report: what did it say about Lucy Letby…
Indonesia is in the middle of a climate emergency, experiencing what Nasa calls the ‘apex predator’ of wildfires. It’s burning an area three times the size of Singapore and choking millions across south-east Asia with…
Non-medical managers are the only safety-critical part of the service that do not have a regulator. Lady Justice Thirlwall says that must change. So do we Tom Dolphin is chair of the British Medical Association council…
Some 41 states restrict abortions, a ‘core component’ of maternal fetal practice, high-risk pregnancy non-profit says Maternal fetal specialists should see abortion care as a “core component” of their practice in states…
Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times The ongoing campaign to build thousands of massive datacenters for AI will create a “tsunami” of…