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"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

An ambulance chief has issued a plea to help “save the life of a Londoner” by only calling 999 in a “life or limb” threatening emergency during the paramedics’ strike on Monday. more

Canadian provincial governments face a growing problem of public health inefficiency, with a shortage of doctors and nurses. The Ontario provincial government has just announced a partial privatization, and the federal government is announcing new money.more

Researchers at Imperial College London studied life expectancy in thousands of areas alongside house prices.more

Ten more days of strikes by ambulance workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been announced by the Unite union.more

Shops selling illegal e-cigarettes and selling e-cigarettes to children have become the most serious retail threats in the UK, according to consumer protection officials, the BBC reported yesterday.more

More than 300 medicines are already unavailable in Belgium, the media alert. Some antibiotics and painkillers are beginning to be in short supply.more

The medicines shortage has worsened with 12 more drugs out of stock in the last week including a treatment for epilepsy, it has emerged. more

A record 38 per cent of Americans will forgo treatment in 2022 due to high costs. Lower-income individuals, younger adults and women suffer the most, according to a Gallup poll released yesterday.more

Tens of thousands of nurses in England went on another strike today demanding pay rises. However, UK Health Minister Steve Barclay warned that meeting the demands would mean cuts in spending on medical services for patients.more

Three years ago, a virus causing a new strain of lung infection was identified. However, the Covid-19 pandemic in 2023 is far from over, warns the journal Lancet.more

52 percent Brits want an "immediate" ban on the sale of cigarettes in stores, according to a study commissioned by the MailOnline portal. 71 percent of the inhabitants of the islands, in turn, believe that the country should implement the controversial solution from New Zealand.more

The government is set to announce a new law that will ban all types of so-called conversion therapy, according to a new report.more

Brain magazine has published the results of a study conducted by scientists from the University of Turin who, thanks to new methods of DNA sequencing and in vitro studies of nerve cells, have been able to identify the gene responsible for some forms of autism.more

About 15 million more people in England could be prescribed daily cholesterol-lowering statin pills to cut their risk of heart attacks and stroke, new advice for the NHS says.more

Black patients wait six months longer on average for organ transplants than the general population, NHS data shows. more

People should stop smoking and exercise more to ease the burden on the NHS in future, Wales' health minister has urged. more

ExeVir, a biotechnology company from Ghent, will receive €25 million in funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to develop a treatment against Covid-19 using llama antibodies.more

Rishi Sunak has refused to accept that the NHS is in crisis, despite acknowledging the “enormous pressure” the health service is under this winter. The prime minister also refused to say whether he uses a private GP, insisting the issue is a “distraction from the things that really matter”.more

A new variant of the coronavirus, XBB.1.5, is rapidly becoming the dominant strain in the US and already accounts for more than 70% of all deaths. Covid-19 cases in the Northeast, the Washington Post reported.more

Observer investigation finds a ‘two-tier’ health system emerging in England, with rapid access available to those able to pay.more

From today, passengers on direct flights from mainland China to the UK are being randomly tested for Covid-19 and all positive samples will be sent for sequencing to detect possible new variants of the virus.more

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug called lecanemab for patients with early-stage Alzheimer's disease. Tests have shown that the agent slows down memory degradation processes by 27% compared to the placebo agent.more

British ambulance workers will go on strike on January 23 after a disagreement over wages with the government, union Unite said yesterday.more

The UK is embarking on an ambitious plan to accelerate research into mRNA cancer vaccines, with German pharmaceutical company BioNTech.more