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In 2023, the healthy life expectancy was 61.3 years for men and 64.6 years for women. This means an increase of 1.2 years for men and 0.9 years for women compared to 2022 - reported the Central Statistical Office.more

MPs have backed proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales in a historic vote which paves the way for a change in the law. Under draft legislation being considered by Parliament, terminally ill adults expected to die within six months could seek help to end their own life. In the first Commons vote on the issue in nearly a decade, MPs supported the bill by 330 to 275.more

Researchers say injection will be ‘game changing’ for people with the respiratory condition.more

The number of single women and female couples undergoing IVF or artificial insemination in the UK has risen over the past decade, a report from the fertility regulator, external shows.more

France wants the European Union to adopt a resolution preventing teenagers from using social media before they turn 15, Politico reported. The French government intends to use the Polish presidency of the EU Council to do so.more

Plans to end the deepening crisis in access to NHS dental care are failing, leaving patients unable to get treatment, according to a warning from the government’s spending watchdog.more

MPs are being urged to back plans to make the UK the first country to eradicate smoking, as new figures suggest tobacco will result in almost 300,000 Britons getting cancer within the next five years.more

Life expectancy in the U.S. varies by more than 20 years by race, ethnicity and location, according to a study in The Lancet. Some blacks, American Indians and Alaska Natives die the fastest. Asians live the longest.more

Experts say UK ‘lags behind’ as OECD finds poor outcomes for many diagnosed with colon and lung cancers, writes "The Guardian".more

Ozempic is only available on the NHS for people with type 2 diabetesmore

Motorists and commuters are being warned of disruption with weather warnings for snow and ice in several areas across the UK. Snow started falling across parts of the country on Monday in what BBC Weather says is likely the "first glimpse of the season".more

The study by the Food Farming and Countryside Commission looked at the cost of healthcare, welfare and productivity issues related to what we eat.more

Emergency doctors have sounded the alarm over an approaching winter crisis that they say is already putting patients in overstretched A&E departments at risk.more

In 2022, Poland spent 6.4% of GDP on healthcare, well below the EU average of 10.4% of GDP, according to Eurostat data published on Friday. On average, Poland spent €1,137 per capita, with only Romania and Bulgaria behind.more

Adding folic acid to flour could prevent around 200 cases of neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, every year, and improve the health of pregnant women, says the government, which is giving manufacturers until the end of 2026 to conform to the new legal requirement, external.more

Less than half of people over the age of 40 in England are getting the heart health checks they are entitled to, according to the government’s spending watchdog. The National Audit Office called for a review of how NHS health checks are provided in England, after it found that only 44% of eligible adults attended one in the past five years.more

The NHS will start offering an "improved" stop smoking pill to tens of thousands of people in England who want to quit cigarettes. Varenicline, a daily tablet given over a few months, is as effective as vapes and more effective than nicotine replacement gum or patches, NHS England says. more

We expect that diseases such as West Nile virus, or others transmitted by mosquitoes, will be encountered more and more frequently in our environment,' noted biologist and parasitologist, Professor Maciej Grzybek. He pointed out that the health system must be prepared to act.more

People have been urged to isolate at home for five days if they contract a contagious illness as a new variant is sweeping across the country - driving cases up 16% in two weeks. Rates of the winter vomiting bug norovirus have surged and the UK Health Security Agency says a Japanese variant known as Kawasaki is responsible for 70% of cases.more

Australian experts in the journal JAMA Network Open estimate that the number of cancer deaths worldwide will almost double by 2050. They predict that in the most developed countries this increase will be smaller.more

Thousands of children as young as two in England are being treated for health complications linked to severe obesity as leading experts warned of an “escalating public health crisis”. NHS data shows that one in 10 children joining primary school have obesity: 9.6% of reception-age children in 2023-24, up from 9.2% in 2022-23more

Two more cases of a new strain of the mpox virus have been detected in London, in household contacts of the first patient, health officials say. The two individuals are now under specialist care at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.more

The government has announced plans to make it illegal to smoke in children's playgrounds and outside schools and hospitals in England, with some places also becoming vape-free.more

Compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans are spending about an hour less outside their homes each day, which appears to be a lasting effect of the pandemic, reports the Journal of the American Planning Association.more

Health officials have reported the UK’s first case of mpox caused by a new strain that is driving an ongoing surge in infections in Africa. The UK Health Security Agency said the individual tested positive for clade Ib mpox after travelling to countries affected by the outbreak and had been transferred to the high-consequence infectious diseases unit at London’s Royal Free hospital.more