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Airborne toxic particulates are the most potent external factor damaging human health, a new report indicates. However, their impact is mainly in a few countries - Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, China, Nigeria and Indonesia.more

Patients in England will be the first in the world to be able to receive an anti-cancer injection that will take seven minutes to administer, three-quarters shorter than its intravenous administration, the NHS public health service announced.more

The number of people in Scotland whose death was caused by alcohol has risen again to the highest level in 14 years.more

The NHS is expanding its offer of free blood-pressure checks in the community in England to include some barber shops and mosques as well as pharmacies. more

Thirty families are launching legal proceedings against the British government, nursing homes and several hospitals in England over the deaths of their relatives in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the BBC reported yesterday.more

Surgeons in Oxford have carried out the first womb transplant in the UK. more

The NHS has teamed up with Morrisons supermarket to put extra labels in underwear reminding people to see their GP if they spot potential symptoms of breast or testicular cancer. more

Belgians ranked fourth in the world in terms of average daily calorie intake, The Brussels Times reported yesterday.more

UK specialists have published the first findings of a new variant of a coronavirus called Pirola, recently detected on three continents - Europe, the US and Israel.more

Covid vaccines should be made available for people to buy privately in Britain, leading scientists have urged, amid concerns over a new wave of the virus which could worsen in autumn and winter.more

A new sub-strain of coronavirus has led to some scientists to call for a return to public mask-wearing. more

Surgeons at New York's Langone University have shown that a transplanted pig kidney can function in the human body for more than a month, the AP reported.more

The number of procedures performed using surgical robots is increasing rapidly in our country, experts say. Experts spoke about how robotic surgery is developing in Poland during the 13th Summer Oncology Academy for Journalists, which ended on Friday.more

The pandemic is over, but the coronavirus remains and the number of cases of Covid-19 has increased in several German states. Experts suspect that this is the so-called Barbenheimer effect - the recently popular combined screening of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" films in cinemas, according to the "Spiegel" weekly website.more

Weight-loss jabs are among a range of measures that will soon be made available by the NHS via prescription on apps in an attempt to tackle obesity, as demand for traditional face-to-face services surges.more

In the battle against drug-resistant superbugs, researchers have developed a synthetic antibiotic that shows potential in combating these dangerous microbes. With the rise of antibiotic resistance, finding new solutions is crucial to maintain effective treatments against bacterial infections.more

More than 800,000 people across the UK are predicted to have Covid as a new variant, dubbed Eris, has rapidly spread to become the second most common strain after Arcturus. more

Scientists have set new limits on a person's resistance to being in hot temperatures. Previous studies have shown that even a healthy, young person can die after six hours of being in heat at 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) combined with 100% humidity. The new research shows that this threshold can be much lower, sciencealert.com reported.more

Messages encouraging UK smokers to quit could be placed inside packets of cigarettes under draft proposals being considered by the government. more

The cosmetics industry is preparing to change the EU regulations on allergens in cosmetics. The amendment to the EU regulation enters into force on August 16 this year. and is a response to the increasingly frequent allergies, especially to the ingredients of fragrance compositions.more

The waiting list for hospital treatment has topped 7.5 million people in England for the first time. It means nearly one in seven of the population is on an NHS waiting list for routine treatment, including hip and knee operations.more

A new variant of the coronavirus called Eris, the second most widespread in the world, has arrived in Italy in a very short time, the newspaper Il Messaggero reported. According to Italian research, this variant is no more dangerous than other mutations.more

The study 'Baby online' shows that pre-school children who use digital devices just after waking up and after dinner function worse than those who do so less often, reported psychologist and study author Dr Magdalena Rowicka of the Academy of Special Education (APS) in Warsaw.more

The study, which is a natural experiment, provides evidence to support the link between air pollution and childhood obesity, reports the journal 'Environmental Pollution'.more

The government has unveiled a state-of-the-art research lab where scientists will work to bolster Britain’s defences against future pandemics.more