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It might be time to stock up on your hay fever tablets, however, as a huge pollen bomb is about to hit London.more

A total of 10,000 hospital workers are to go on strike from 8am on Wednesday.more

San Francisco will become the first US city to effectively ban e-cigarette sales, after the city's board of supervisors unanimously voted in favor of an ordinance Tuesday.more

Twelve people have died during an outbreak of a rare bacterial infection in Essex, it has been confirmed.more

From January 1 to June 15 this year. there were 1,137 cases of measles recorded in Poland - it results from the report of the National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene. There were 76 such cases in the same period last year.more

Children will be able to access treatment for their gambling addictions in the first clinic of its kind in the UK. more

Public mistrust of vaccines means the world is taking a step backwards in the fight against deadly yet preventable infectious diseases, warn experts. The biggest global study into attitudes on immunisation suggests confidence is low in some regions.more

We must start to treat the HIV test as well as the blood count - experts say. As indicated, the number of people infected with HIV in Poland is growing. The problem is, among others lack of educational activities. "Medicine is developing, and Poles' knowledge remained at the 90's level."more

Spain has risen to the top of the Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index, which ranks 169 economies according to factors that contribute to overall health.more

There were more than 200,000 abortions in England and Wales last year - the highest number ever recorded.more

Health experts have put the trend down to new sexual habits linked to the use of dating apps, as well as public budget cuts in sexual health services.more

Ministers said they hope the measures will spare hundreds of families from suffering, by cutting incidence of congenital conditions such as spina bifida and other neural tube defects.more

Cancer patients in three-fifths of NHS trusts in England are waiting too long for treatment and the devastating effects of delays are being "ignored" by ministers and health service chiefs, MPs have said.more

Medics warned that budget cuts were leading France's world-class health system to the brink of collapse and putting patients' lives at risk.more

What if a simple blood test could tell if you had cancer? Grail Inc., founded by Illumina Inc. and backed by both Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, has been targeting just that, but after some early hype and the promise of a liquid biopsy test by 2019, talk of a so-called "pan-typic" cancer test has since quieted down.more

The World Health Organization has warned of more than 1 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases every day around the world. In a new report, the UN agency spoke of a "wake-up" call in the age of dating apps.more

Polish people heading on holidays should ensure they apply for a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), which could save them a lot of money should they need to use a hospital abroad.more

The death of 17-year-old Noa Pothoven made world headlines earlier this week as the international press described the "euthanasia" of the young Dutch girl in Arnhem, Netherlands.more

A nurse has been handed a second life sentence for the murder of 85 patients in his care, confirming him as the worst serial killer in postwar Germany. more

A GP has called for fellow doctors to prescribe singing as an alternative to medicine.more

He called the Vatican the euthanasia of a 17-year-old Dutch woman, who asked for it, arguing that as a rape victim in childhood she suffered from depression and anorexia. Noa died on Sunday, obtaining permission to die of hunger and thirst.more

You're safe to drink up to 25 cups of coffee a day, according to a new study. It won't damage the heart any more than drinking just one cup, researchers found.more

Women who are not married and do not have children are the happiest group in the population, a prominent expert in happiness has said. Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioural science at the London School of Economics, said unmarried and childless women are also likely to outlive their married child-rearing counterparts and are healthier than them. more

Nearly half of Brits self-medicate by using drugs, alcohol and sex to cope with mental health symptoms, according to a new study.more

Germany coach Joachim Loew has been hospitalised following a sports accident and will miss their upcoming Euro 2020 qualifiers against Belarus and Estonia, the German Football Association (DFB) said on Friday.more