Every year, more than 8 million people die because of tobacco smoking, making it one of the greatest threats to public health, according to WHO. The largest number of cigarette consumers live in China - it is estimated that as many as 300 million people smoke there. However, more and more countries are intensifying the fight against nicotine addiction.more
Coronavirus testing and monitoring are set to be scaled up for the winter, the UK’s public health agency has said, as pressures on the health service are expected to rise in the coming months.more
Nearly three million hours of home care promised by the HSE could not be provided last year mainly due to shortage of staff, it emerged yesterday. Although it set a target of 23.67 million hours it provided just 20.79 million, despite over 6,000 people on waiting lists.more
Can birth control pills cause depression in women? The topic has been discussed for years, but the results of subsequent analyzes did not allow for a clear answer. Only the latest study, covering over a quarter of a million women, sheds new light on this issue.more
Australians collecting edible but wild plants were horrified to learn that a live parasite had been removed from the brain of a New South Wales resident. Scientists suspect that a woman collecting plants in a python-inhabited wetland had eaten the eggs of the parasite ophidascaris robertsi, most likely expelled by a host snake, 'The Guardian' daily reported.more
Almost 340,000 people, more than 60 per cent of those who died in England last year, were on a waiting list for a doctor's appointment or scheduled treatment, 'The Times' reported today.more
The emergence of a new coronavirus variant - known as BA.2.86 - has led to an acceleration of the UK's flu and Covid-19 vaccination programme. The UKHSA wants all people at risk to be protected before the wave of infections arrives, which usually occurs in winter.more
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 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
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.
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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
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
