The UK has one of the worst records of pollution death of any country in Europe, a major study has found. Around 50,000 deaths last year in the UK can be attributed to toxic air and man-made chemicals, according to the investigation by researchers in New York.more
Oxford professor Sir Muir Gray, a Public Health England clinical adviser, told the Sun: 'We need to be encouraging activity as we age - not telling people to put their feet up.more
Pregnant women, infants and the elderly are safe to eat runny eggs - if they are stamped with the British Lion mark, the food safety watchdog has announced. more
Being lonely can be as bad for someone's health as having a long-term illness such as diabetes or high blood pressure, the leader of Britain's GPs will warn on Thursday.more
Gordon Ramsay has claimed that cocaine use is so rife in the restaurant industry that diners have asked him to sprinkle the class A drug over a soufflé and a customer at one of his venues took a plate to the toilet so they could snort lines of the drug.more
The millennial generation are often dismissed as poor precious snowflakes. Millennials are said to have ruined marriage, dating and marmalade among other things.more
Eleven people, including two Poles, were injured on Saturday when a car collided with pedestrians near London's Natural History Museum, in one of the capital's busiest tourist areas, but police doused concerns it was a terrorist attack, saying it was a road traffic incident.more
This is the moving moment a young man stepped in to help an autistic boy who was suffering a difficult episode on a train journey. Single mother Gayna Pealling hailed Daniel Ball, 21, "my hero" after he stepped in to help calm down her five-year-old son Jack, who has autism and ADHD.more
Irish voters would reject any move to legalise abortion in all circumstances up to 22 weeks, an opinion poll has found. As the prime minister, Leo Varadkar, and his minority Fine Gael government prepare to frame an abortion reform referendum scheduled for next year, it has emerged that only 24% of voters are in favour of legalising terminations in nearly all cases. more
UK drug dealers are now giving their customers 'medical advice' and prescribing different cannabis strains for various ailments. Cannabis dealers and growers are trying to gain an edge on their competition by copying sophisticated marketing methods of American medical cannabis companies.more
A primary school has banned children from carrying sausage rolls and pork-pies in their lunchboxes. The school says it introduced the new rules to ensure children eat well and wants to work with parents to achieve this. more
A devastating strain of 'Aussie flu' is heading to Britain in time for winter. It's feared the H3N2 strain could kill as many people as the 1968 pandemic in Hong Kong.
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Napoli star Arkadiusz Milik may need to have his second knee surgery in one year after that the Polish striker picked up a new injury in the final minutes of SPAL-Napoli yesterday.more
Anyone who wants to send a child free of charge to the dentist should move to the Lublin region. There are the highest number of school dental offices - reports "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more
Two years ago the US Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of violation to Volkswagen, setting off the far-reaching investigation and media storm into the VW diesel scandal. New research captures some of the real-world impact on lives lost due to air pollution associated with diesel cars.more
Erroneous letter from NHS trust states baby born in UK to British parents may need to pay for treatment because she is not 'ordinarily resident' in country.more
A five year old girl who died from suspected sepsis just days after starting school was hailed as an Irish community's newest saint in Heaven. Heartbreaking scenes marked the Mass of the Angels of Maja Glowacka (5) who died on September 12 after suddenly falling ill at her Cork home.more