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Many medical procedures at several London hospitals were canceled or diverted yesterday due to a major cyberattack that targeted a laboratory testing company, the London branch of the NHS said.more

The Liberal Democrats say free personal care would be offered to older or disabled people at home, if they were the government. Leader Sir Ed Davey says this pledge, plus raising care workers' pay, would end the hospital crisis and help people stay in their own homes.more

A vaccine with mRNA technology, the same one used against Covid-19, is being tested in Europe and the US in the first colorectal cancer and melanoma patients.more

Nurses have declared a “national emergency” in the NHS, warning that patients are dying in hospital corridors. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) revealed patients are being left without access to oxygen and enduring intimate examinations in inappropriate crowded areas.more

The overuse of mobile phones and social media by students is the reason for poorer results in the international PISA study, said the head of the OECD for education, Andreas Schleicher, quoted by the Swedish newspaper "Dagens Nyheter".more

Only every third adult Pole declares that they visit a dentist's office every six months to check their teeth. 26.7% of Poles do it once a year, 14.3% - only once every two years, and over one tenth - every quarter. According to some dentists, the results of the latest survey are quite disturbing.more

GP surgeries can offer appointments with a range of health professionals including a GP, nurse, clinical pharmacist or physiotherapist, depending on your situation.more

Labour has promised to clear the NHS waiting list backlog in England within five years, with Wes Streeting warning that the health service risks becoming “a poor service for poor people” while the wealthy shift to using private care.more

The so-called "Martha's Rule" will enable patients and families to seek a second opinion if they feel their condition or that of a loved one is deteriorating and they are not being listened to by their doctor. NHS England has announced a list of 143 hospitals that will test and implement the rule in its first year.more

The number of abortions in England and Wales has reached record levels, with financial pressures believed to be a factor in why women are choosing not to have a baby. There were 251,377 abortions for women resident in the two nations in 2022, official figures from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) show, which is the highest since the Abortion Act was introduced almost 60 years ago.more

Dental graduates in England could be forced to work in the NHS to help tackle the crisis in access that has left millions struggling to get their teeth repaired. Under the government’s plan they would have to undertake NHS work for “several years” after leaving university or face paying back some of the £200,000 cost of training them.more

Daily or almost daily marijuana consumption has increased, and daily or almost daily alcohol drinking has decreased, according to research by the American University of Carnegie Mellon. In 2022, the heavy marijuana user group became larger than the heavy alcohol user group.more

Craig Mackinlay MP, who almost six months ago had both arms and both legs amputated due to sepsis and was given a 5 per cent chance of survival, returned to the UK House of Commons yesterday - greeted by a standing ovation.more

Compensation payments to people who have been given tainted blood as a result of gross negligence in the UK health service, and to the families of those who have died, will begin within 90 days, the government announced yesterday. The value of individual compensation is expected to range from £1m to more than £2m.more

The EHIC card is as old as our presence in the European Union. To date, the National Health Fund has issued more than 37 million cards. It is worth carrying it with you when you travel abroad.more

The public inquiry into the infected blood scandal, known as the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history, is due to publish its findings. More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from 1970 to 1991 by contaminated blood products and transfusions. About 3,000 of them have since died - many haemophiliacs given infected blood products as part of their treatment. more

New variants of the Covid bug could be behind a sudden 21% rise in coronavirus cases across the UK. According to the UK Health Security Agency there has been a sharp increase in Covid cases week on week.more

A UK girl born deaf can now hear unaided, after a groundbreaking gene-therapy treatment. Opal Sandy was treated shortly before her first birthday - and six months on, can hear sounds as soft as a whisper and is starting to talk, saying words such as "Mama", "Dada" and "uh-oh".more

AstraZeneca has begun the worldwide withdrawal of its Covid-19 vaccine due to a “surplus of available updated vaccines” that target new variants of the virus. The announcement follows the pharmaceutical company in March voluntarily withdrawing its European Union marketing authorisation, which is the approval to market a medicine in member states.more

Extending the period in which pregnancy can be terminated from 12 to 18 weeks, as well as abolishing the requirement for parental consent for abortion in the case of teenagers aged 15-17 - these are the main changes to the Health Act agreed upon by the Danish government with part of the opposition.more

The Balkan Insight website warns against fraudulent beauty clinics that are mushrooming in Greece. Self-proclaimed clinics extract thousands of euros from clients, people go into debt to pay for their services, but the desired results are not achieved.more

The US federal medical agency CDC has confirmed the first case of HIV infection during a cosmetic procedure. Three victims opted for a so-called vampire facelift procedure at an unlicensed clinic, the ABC news portal reported.more

An important trial of the world's first "personalised" mRNA vaccine against the deadliest form of skin cancer - melanoma - is now under way in the UK. Steve Young, 52, from Stevenage, Herts, who had a melanoma growth cut out of his scalp last August, is one of the first patients to try the shot.more

The UK has the worst rate of child alcohol abuse worldwide, and more than half of British children have drunk alcohol by the age of 13, according to a report. The study, one of the largest of its kind by the World Health Organization (WHO), looked at 2021-22 data on 280,000 children aged 11, 13 and 15 from 44 countries who were asked about alcohol, cigarettes and vape usage.more

One in five people on average need at least three interactions – but for ethnic minorities figure rises to one in three.more