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Germany abandons further security measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic. After the abolition of the obligation to wear masks on long-distance trains, further relaxations will follow soon. A pandemic is no longer a threat, said German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach.more

A&E waiting times have deteriorated so much this winter that at some hospitals in England more than half of patients have had to wait more than four hours.more

The UK's Daily Telegraph wonders about the reason for the declining number of marriages in the UK, despite the fact that, according to research, marriage is beneficial to both society and health.more

The development and academic performance of children conceived through in vitro is the same as that of their peers conceived spontaneously, according to an analysis conducted by researchers in Australia. It is published in the journal 'PLOS Medicine'.more

Supermarket giant Morrisons has banned a popular product in all of its supermarkets following safety fears. The retail giant has prohibited the sale in its stores, with the likes of Tesco and Sainsbury's following suit.more

SSRIs cause emotional dullness in one in two patients. Scientists have found that this is because they reduce sensitivity to reward and positive reinforcement - behavioral processes that "create" human behavior in a given environment, allow you to stay connected to and learn from the environment. The results of the study were published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.more

Some 80,000 medical appointments and 11,000 scheduled treatments were canceled yesterday in England due to a strike by medical staff, which media reports indicate is the largest ever in the public health service during the current wave of strikes.more

Free HIV tests that can be done at home are being offered this week to people in England. It is part of a government drive to improve diagnosis, which dropped off during the Covid pandemic.more

A health minister has insisted there can be no re-examination of NHS pay for this year as the health service in England faces what is expected to be the biggest strike in its history, with no signs of a government plan to end the impasse.more

Preventive examinations can protect against death from cancer or another serious disease, yet more than 30 per cent of Poles do not know that such examinations are free in our country, experts warn.more

Already 72.8 per cent of us show symptoms of mental deterioration. 47 per cent noticed them only after a wave of price rises or credit instalments. Therefore, the condition will not improve quickly, reports "Rzeczpospolita" today.more

The largest ever outbreak of bird flu is spilling over into mammals, including otters and foxes in the UK. Figures released to the BBC show the virus has led to the death of about 208 million birds around the world and at least 200 recorded cases in mammals.more

More than 4.5 million people worldwide die prematurely due to obesity, according to a report published by Our World in Data. The country where this problem is the biggest is the Republic of Nauru - almost 90 percent of people there are overweight or obese. residents. In Poland, excessive kilograms are also becoming a plague - slightly over 58% of Poles struggle with overweight or obesity. Poles.more

A highly toxic chemical compound sold illegally in diet pills is to be reclassified as a poison, a government minister has said. more

The country's first and the world's second nasal vaccine against Covid-19 has been approved for use in India. The first one was introduced in China a few months ago. Work on such a preparation is still underway in the USA and Europe.more

Tracking what shoppers buy, via loyalty-card data, can help spot those with early signs of cancer, doctors who have been running a study say. more

UV devices for drying and curing nail polish may be a bigger public health problem than previously thought. Researchers from the University of California (USA) tested these devices and found that their use leads to the death of healthy cells or to potentially carcinogenic mutations.more

About 150 foreigners have been euthanised in Belgium in the last six years. Most of the patients came from France and were over 50 years old. They mostly suffered from a progressive neurological disease, such as multiple sclerosis or ALS, or were in the terminal stage of cancer, the Belgian agency reported.more

Waiting times at Scotland's A&E departments have improved, according to the latest figures. more

Ambulance crews say they are treating a growing number of patients who are falling ill because they are unable to afford to heat their homes. more

A new sub-variant of Omicron - Kraken - is more infectious, but does not pose a major threat in the course of COVID-19, reported Ministry of Health spokesman Wojciech Andrusiewicz. He stipulated that tests detect its presence in 90-95 per cent of cases.more

At the end of last year, there was a noticeable increase in the number of deaths due to the consumption of drugs in Scotland. Public Health Scotland (PHS) data shows that a large proportion of deaths can be linked directly to synthetic opioids.more

Office for National Statistics (ONS) general health figures, based on the 2021 census, show Elmbridge in Surrey is the healthiest area, with 88.1% of people reporting good or very good health. more

Only a few people decide to be vaccinated against flu. Young people and those who derive their knowledge from social media are the least likely to take the preparation, according to research carried out for the 'Rzeczpospolita'.more

"Medics who discourage vaccination will face medical courts. The case concerns 116 people. Applications to punish doctors concern the promotion of views inconsistent with current medical knowledge" - we can read on the website Prawo.plmore