Living in a privately rented home is linked to more rapid biological ageing, according to researchers who tested DNA and found the tenure is associated with twice the ageing effect of obesity and half that of smoking.more
This is the latest information on local infection rates in your neighbourhood from Covid this winter. Concerns have been rising over the new Pirola and Eris strains of the virus which are sweeping through the UK and have been described as highly mutated and also very transmissible.
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Cold-related symptoms may last for many weeks, similarly to the so-called long COVID - showed research by British specialists, published by "Lancet's eClinical Medicine".more
A submission from the British Medical Association said the UK Government failed to ‘provide clear, consistent and visible public health messaging’.more
Transgender women will be banned from being treated in female hospital wards in England, the health secretary has announced today. Steve Barclay told the Tory Party conference of plans to push back against what he calls ‘wokery’ in the NHS.more
This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries on nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID -19."more
Only two out of five new doctors and one in two new nurses who start working in the UK's public health service were educated in the UK, revealing the public health system's increasing dependence on foreign staff, a report published today said.more
Glasgow City Council today approved the creation of the UK's first supervised and hygienic drug use facility. This is a way to reduce the record number of drug deaths in Scotland.more
Within 12 months, almost 400 thousand people waited for more than 24 hours to be admitted to hospital emergency departments (A&E) in England, the emergency medicine physicians organization RCEM reported. She warned that it could be similar this year.more
Over the past two months in Romania, the number of weekly confirmed Covid-19 infections has increased more than 25 times, reports Digi24.ro, analyzing data from the Ministry of Health. The latest statistics indicate over 11.2 thousand. confirmed cases within a week.more
The number of NHS appointments cancelled because of strikes in England is expected to surpass one million, with health bosses warning of the “distress” caused to patients.more
Hundreds of cows have died of epizootic haemorrhagic disease (EHD), known as "cow Covid" - an infectious, viral disease of cattle that has been spreading throughout Spain for many months. In addition to farmed cattle, it also affects wild animals, mainly deer and roe deer.more
Last year - which was the warmest on record in terms of measurements - 4,507 people died in England due to the heat, the highest number since such data has been collected, the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday.more
Nearly half of Poles report a problem with the quality of their sleep. It is apparent that it is worse than during the pandemic. Over the past two years, there has been a rise in the number of people who are dissatisfied. The percentage of those who are undecided on the aforementioned issue has also increased. In contrast, the number of satisfied Poles has decreased. more
A disease which became prominent in Victorian times is making a comeback in Britain. Specialists have revealed as many as one million Brits in the UK might have gout.more
One-and-a-half-year-old boy Nicholas Dominici is suspected to have died as a result of a drug overdose. The New York nursery he attended for a week held fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller 50 times more potent than heroin, under sleeping mats, local police reported.more
Today, for the first time in the history of NHS, consultants and junior doctors, i.e. those who are already licensed to practice but are still in the process of gaining specialization, are simultaneously on strike in England.more
Thousands of people have died avoidably after the government stopped telling the food industry to cut how much salt it puts into its products, research has found.more
A dog disease that can jump from canines to humans is now spreading between dogs in Britain for the first time, the Telegraph understands.
Brucella canis is a disease that leads to infertility in dogs and is incurable and was previously only seen in imported animals.more
The number of deaths caused by alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking is increasing in Poland. This is blamed on an increase in the sale of 'monkeys' and the advertising of cigarette substitutes as 'safer for health', according to scientists who sit on the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.more
People 65 and over in England are being urged to get a top-up booster vaccine against Covid at a time when more people are coming into hospitals with the virus.
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NHS officials have warned that doctors’ strikes this week are likely to cause disruption to patient care “unlike anything before”, as Wednesday will see consultants and junior doctors taking joint strike action for the first time in the escalating dispute over pay.
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The "snowflake" generation, or children and adolescents, who unlike their parents and grandparents have powerful access to knowledge, do not cope with this knowledge, which contributes to mental problems, experts estimate.more
