Ultra-processed products now make up more than half the average diet in countries like the UK,…
Health
NHS fined £300,000 after chemo patient’s death traced to contaminated water
The NHS has been fined £300,000 after the death of a chemotherapy patient was traced to…
Pandemic odds top 25% as UKHSA flags respiratory infections as biggest threat
The UK Health Security Agency has published its inaugural Health Security Risk Assessment, warning that respiratory…
NHS nearly spent £70 on taxi to deliver 50p pill to England’s former deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam
The NHS offered to deliver a single 50p pill via taxi service in what critics have…
Bran flakes to be classed as ‘junk food’ in ‘counter-intuitive’ Labour health reforms
Fibre-rich bran flakes fortified with essential vitamins could be classed as junk food under Labour’s proposed…
The prostate cancer warning sign men are missing in the night, according to a urologist
Approximately one in eight men across the United Kingdom receives a prostate cancer diagnosis each year,…
One million young Britons to be offered menB jab after multiple outbreaks of ‘horrendous’ disease
One million young Britons to bare to be offered the meningitis B vaccine after multiple outbreaks…
NHS A&E patients forced to check in online as receptionists are replaced under new plans
NHS England is pushing hospitals to implement tablet-based self-service kiosks in A&E departments amid new plans…
Flesh-eating parasite invasion triggers quarantines in multiple Texas counties amid deadly US outbreak fears
A flesh-eating parasite invasion has triggered quarantines in multiple US counties as fears of a deadly…
One in four Britons ‘strongly support’ banning NHS staff from wearing political badges as campaign group slams ‘extremism problem’ in hospitals
A Jewish campaign group has warned the NHS has an “extremism” problem as a new report…