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Private hospital group Spire is cashing in on long NHS waiting lists as more patients choose to pay for treatment rather than get stuck in a health backlog. more

The obligation to wear protective masks in airplanes will apply only until September 23. The Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) fought to maintain the regulation, reports RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) on Thursday.more

A pensioner spent 14 hours on the floor after becoming trapped in his own home in Dublin because of hoarding.more

In England, as in Scotland, the administration of new booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine began yesterday and will be given first to residents of social care homes and people unable to leave their homes.more

Anyone caught lighting up within 15m of a hospital building in Scotland could be fined up to £1,000. more

The autumn wave of coronavirus is expected to appear in November or December. I do not expect it to be particularly severe,' announced virologist Professor Agnieszka Szuster-Ciesielska. She believes that current vaccination levels are too low.more

Spain and Portugal are among the countries with the highest increase in deaths in Europe, according to the latest Eurostat figures from June 2022. Europe has seen an average of 6.2 per cent more deaths since the arrival of the coronavirus, reports the daily "ABC".more

More than two million people will be given the jag from Monday with some receiving a new dual vaccine which tackles the original virus and the Omicron variant. more

Bee venom destroys aggressive breast cancer cells. This discovery by Australian scientists raises high hopes because it concerns two types of this cancer that are difficult to treat. For now, however, it is not known whether bee venom will be effective not only in laboratory experiments, but also in the treatment of cancer patients.more

People in the United Kingdom with folic acid prescriptions were 1.5 times more likely to get COVID-19. They were also 2.6 times more likely to die from COVID-19 compared to the control group. Those are the findings of a new study from UC Davis Health and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. more

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday approved updated vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer, targeting the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The new formulations are intended to replace those previously used in booster doses.more

The UK covid alert level was lowered yesterday from the third on a five-point scale to the second, the lowest, since the alert was introduced in spring 2020.more

Whipped cream spray may be sold to New York State only to persons age 21 and older. The ban on selling this product to children and adolescents was introduced due to cases of intoxication with nitrous oxide, a gas used in cans of whipped cream.more

Scientists were amazed by the case of a 36-year-old Italian from Sicily who recently returned from a holiday in Spain and began to complain of various ailments. He is the first man in the world to be simultaneously diagnosed with COVID-19, monkey pox, and HIV.more

Experts at Oxford University have begun clinical trials of an antiviral drug that could help treat monkeypox. The results will be known in a few months.more

Doctors, nurses carers and other workers who do not have coronavirus symptoms will not have access to free testing anymore.more

As the health service struggles with a backlog of Covid-19 cases and appointments, The Daily Telegraph reports that the Conservative leadership election front runner will unveil a series of pledges to stop doctors retiring while bringing retirees back to the NHS. more

Learning to ride a bike or getting out for a walk could all soon be just what the doctor ordered under new health plans. Some GPs will start prescribing back to basics treatments as part of a trial to see how big a difference small lifestyle changes can make to mental and physical complaints.more

The mortality of pregnant women in Portugal has increased to an unprecedented level in 38 years, the Portuguese media reported, recalling the deteriorating situation in hospital maternity rooms.more

Families are looking ahead to a grim winter as experts predict the cap on energy bills will hit close to £3,600 per year from October - before rising again in April next year.more

Government plans to boost staff numbers with more foreign workers, with NHS managers sent abroad to recruit more

Ambulance services are using taxis to take thousands of patients to hospital following calls initially categorised as urgent. more

The administration of new booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine will begin in England on 5 September, the NHS announced yesterday. Around 26 million people will be eligible to receive them.more

The vast majority of the 40 new hospitals promised by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson before the last House of Commons election have not yet started construction, and some of them do not even have planning permission, according to Sky News findings.more

Monkeypox virus has so far been detected in more than 80 countries outside West and Central Africa, Reuters reported yesterday, citing data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In Poland, 95 cases of infection have been reported.more