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Health bosses have warned ambulances are only for real emergencies after taking 999 calls for complaints including constipation, hiccuping and after someone soiled themselves. North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) answered 4,111 emergency calls and attended 3,178 incidents on Christmas Day alone.more

More than eight million children live in areas of the UK with illegal levels of air pollution, according to an analysis by the Labour Party. Some 8.3 million under-18s live in local authority areas where levels of harmful pollutant nitrogen dioxide exceeded legal limits in 2015, according to the Party, which made its estimate using figures from the House of Commons Library.more

Drug packages are too similar in Poland and there is a big risk of a tragic mistake', pharmacists say.more

During the festive period, the risk of exacerbation of anxiety and depression is increasing. The expert indicates that this does not mean an increase in the number of suicides at that time. more

Dog owners should be wary of their pets eating festive treats as vets prepare for an increase in chocolate poisoning over the Christmas period. According to research published in Vet Record, more than 350 dogs have suffered the symptoms of chocolate exposure in the last five years.emore

More and more Polish patients use the health services in the Czech Republic. Until now, the most common were to treat cataracts and joints.more

The highest concentrations of harmful PM10 and PM2.5 dust on the night from Sunday to Monday and yesterday morning were recorded in Katowice, Krakow, Gliwice, Kielce, Rzeszow, Lublin and Warsaw.more

Paramedics received 300 calls an hour as drunk Christmas revellers caused havoc in the capital on a night dubbed "Mad Friday".more

The NHS has launched a free app that shows how busy local services are in the hope of reducing waiting times. Called NHSquicker, the app enables people in Devon and Cornwall to view current waiting times for local emergency departments and minor injuries units, and estimates how long it would take people to get to a different treatment centres, based on their location.more

An investigation has been launched after the death of an 11th immigration detainee this year. Michael Netyks, a 35-year-old Pole, was serving a six-month sentence at Altcourse prison, a private jail in Liverpool run by G4S. He had been assessed to be vulnerable and is thought to have taken his own life. more

Minister for Health Simon Harris has said he would like to see a maximum charge of €10 for a child to attend a GP. Minister Harris appeared on TV3's The Sunday Show with Sarah McInerney when the topic of GP costs came up.more

A baby born with her heart outside the body has survived, a first for UK medicine. Vanellope Hope Wilkins was due to be born around Christmas, however discovery of the rare condition meant doctors delivered her prematurely by caesarean section on November 22 at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester.more

Rising numbers of people are being forced to take time off work to see a GP, despite Government pledges to offer appointments 8am to 8pm, new polls suggest.more

The man fell on a woman with a child in a shopping mall in Poland.more

Austria's Anders Kofler suffers from an autoimmune disease and had to take it easy in training this fall. Right now it's still open when he will be able to make his comeback in the World Cup.more

Locals living in a Irish village claim there is "something in the air" which has an arousing effect on men - and even dogs. Ringaskiddy in Co Cork is home to pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's Viagra factory.more

This is the horrifying moment a lorry driver who fell asleep at the wheel ploughed into two cars at over 40mph - leaving one woman with a fractured spine. Dashcam footage released by West Midlands police shows the moment 47-year-old Mariusz Wlazlo, from Speke , crashed his fully-loaded HGV into two stationary cars at almost 43mph.more

One of London's busiest A&E departments is to routinely screen patients for HIV after a pilot scheme found 32 people unknowingly carrying the virus. King's College hospital, in Denmark Hill, launched the 12-month initiative last year after receiving £250,000 from the Elton John Aids Foundation to tackle late diagnoses.more

Men over the age of 18 will be able to buy Viagra over the counter without a prescription after a reclassification. Health officials announced they were reclassifying Viagra Connect tablets following a public consultation.more

Brits are in the throes of a stress "epidemic" due to pressure at work, financial worries and health concerns, a new report has warned. Four out of five adults felt stressed during a typical week, while almost one in 10 were stressed all the time, a survey of 4,000 adults by insurance firm Axa found.more

An actor has claimed that a young woman was approached by three men outside a London nightclub and had a date rape drug blown into her face. Robert Lindsay has issued a warning after a friend's daughter was reportedly targeted during a night out in the capital.more

Living in the fallout zone from a nuclear disaster would be no worse for our health than living in London, a shocking study from British safety researchers has found.more

A Polish mechanic who claimed he was growing over €38,000 of cannabis for medicinal purposes has received a three year suspended sentence. Father-of-two Wojciech Kwasny (41) told gardai it was his first attempt at growing cannabis to ease his osteoarthritis.more

Self-serve check-outs are putting off up to one in four pensioners from going shopping, a new study has revealed. People over the age of 70 have been left feeling "threatened" and "isolated" by new technologies in the retail industry, the report commissioned by older people's charity Anchor said.more

Potential cancer patients could be offered screening in shopping centre car parks after a pilot scheme successfully detected the disease in one in 33 people.more