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The Estonian doctors, family doctors, infectious diseases and nurses' association of Estonia supported in a joint statement granting school nurses the right to vaccinate "students who are able to reason independently, even if their parents do not agree," Postimees reported.more

Alcoholics will be given ketamine-assisted therapy as part of a £2.4 million phase three trial to see if it helps them stay off alcohol for longer. more

People are still waking, skating and posing for photos on top of frozen lakes even after three boys died from falling through the ice. more

Royal College of Nursing leader criticises ‘belligerence’ in meeting with Steve Barclay at which ministers refused to discuss pay.more

GPs are inundated with demands for antibiotics at a time when pharmacists have warned supplies of some products for respiratory illnesses are at a 25-year low.more

A federal appeals court has blocked a requirement by President Joe Biden's administration that Catholic doctors provide medical services to transgender people. He argued that it was against their conscience, Fox News reported.more

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has again recommended the wearing of masks in New York, Los Angeles, and wherever Covid-19 cases are increasing. 13.7 percent of Americans live in communities affected by high levels of infection.more

The success of the Mayor’s policies in tackling air pollution in London have been highlighted by the Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty in a major national report urging faster action to improve air quality and tackle all sources of air pollution across the country. more

Indisputable research shows that long Covid exists and is giving us a hard time - noted virologist Prof. Agnieszka Szuster-Ciesielska. She added that up to two years after infection, children may remain at risk of encephalitis, and adults at risk of mood disorders.more

The number of children who have died in the UK in recent weeks from infection with a rare invasive form of group A strep has risen to 15, which is spreading more strongly than usual this year, the British Health Safety Agency (UKHSA) said yesterday.more

The number of people smoking in the UK dropped to its lowest level on record last year but more people were using e-cigarettes, new figures have revealed. more

The Czech Republic lacks some medicines, including painkillers and basic antibiotics; Czechs go to Poland for them or look for them on the Internet, informs the daily "Hospodarzske Noviny". Doctors and pharmacists claim that these are the greatest shortages of certain drugs in history.more

The court in Lyon ordered the German company Bayer to pay French farmer Paul Francois compensation in the amount of EUR 11,135 for pesticide poisoning, reported the daily Le Monde. Francois demanded compensation in the amount of one million euros.more

Ambulance staff across most of England and Wales will go on strike on 21 December in a dispute over pay. more

More of us are dying all the time than before the pandemic. In 48 weeks this year, 408,000 people died in Poland. This is 30 thousand more than in 2019. - writes today's 'Dziennik Gazeta Prawna'.more

Lockdowns and quarantines were introduced during the pandemic to isolate people infected with SARS-CoV-2 from outsiders. However, they did not protect the families of those infected from infection. How many people 'caught' the virus in their own home? Professor Rebecca Tunstall of the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York set out to answer this question.more

The UK's Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) today approved the Covid-19 vaccine, which was developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, for use in children between six months and four years of age.more

The Met Office has warned severe cold weather is set to hit the UK this week, with overnight temperatures plummeting to -6C (21F) in places.more

Primary schoolchildren at risk from a severe form of strep A could be given preventive antibiotics as a blanket measure, in a move described as “rare” by health officials.more

New Zealand authorities have launched a court battle over the custody of an infant whose parents are refusing to undergo life-saving surgery over fears that a blood donor may have been vaccinated against Covid-19, AFP reported.more

More than 2.5 million Italians have fallen ill with influenza since the beginning of autumn, the National Institute of Health Services reported. Such a high number of cases had not been recorded since 2009, when the so-called swine flu raged.more

At least 90 percent of the world's population has some form of immunity to Covid-19, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said yesterday. Despite this, the head of the WHO warned against a decrease in vigilance against the coronavirus.more

Italy is already in the endemic phase of Covid-19, the new Health Minister Orazio Schillaci announced. "Today," he added, "we are betting on citizens' sense of responsibility. The health ministry in Rome has inaugurated a vaccination campaign against both Covid-19 and influenza.more

A Polish national living in Ireland has lost a claim that he was discriminated against by the Department of Health over the requirement to take a Covid-19 test every time he passed through Dublin Airport during the pandemic.more

Paramedics and other ambulance workers across much of England and Wales are likely to go on strike before Christmas to demand pay rises, two trade unions representing them have announced.more