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A few days ago, a festival dedicated to mental health took place in New York. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex took part in a panel discussion organized as part of the event. Meghan Markle admitted that she worries about her children who will grow up in the digital age. Social media is a particular nuisance for Harry's wife.more

Hospital and school caterers are not doing enough to stop farmers from overusing antibiotics in their animals, according to campaign groups. more

Tuberculosis cases in London have reached the highest level in years, data shows, as experts warned that the world is “losing the battle” to eliminate the virus.more

As many as one in four people die from diseases related to blood clots and embolisms, experts remind us on the occasion of World Thrombosis Day, which falls on 13 October.more

In the UK, a public consultation on banning the sale of cigarettes and tobacco to people born after 1 January 2009, even when they reach the age of majority, and restricting the availability of electronic cigarettes began yesterday.more

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. more

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

Scientists from Oxford are developing a 3D printing method that can help repair brain damage, reports the journal Nature Communications.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

UK workers are taking more sick days than at any point in the last decade, research suggests. 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