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Health and defence officials are drawing up a strategy to tackle a possible wave of industrial action in the health service.more

Half of the free-range poultry grown for Christmas in the UK have died or been culled because of the bird flu epidemic, an industry leader has told MPs.more

With flu cases rising, UK Covid scientists are turning their attention to finding the best life-saving drugs to fight the winter virus. more

We are at the height of the largest and most dangerous outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza to date, which has affected wild and farmed birds and other animal species around the world, experts quoted by BBC News are alarming. The risk to humans is rather low so far, they assure.more

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it will start using the new term "mpox" as the name for monkey pox and has called on other countries to follow suit. The change in terminology follows complaints that the current name of the disease is racist and stigmatizing.more

Scientists have no doubt about the harmful effects of smog on health. For the fight for clean air, the energy crisis is both an opportunity and a threat, reports today's 'Rzeczpospolita'.more

At least dozens of illegal immigrants who may have had diphtheria have been moved from an overcrowded reception centre in Manston to other locations in the UK without tests to confirm or rule out the disease, 'The Sunday Times' revealed.more

Some of the country’s GP are advising patients requiring urgent hospital care to “get an Uber” or use a relative’s car because of the worst ever delays in the ambulance service in England.more

Prof Andrzej Pławski and Eng Emilia Lis-Tanaś from the Innovative Medical Centre of the Institute of Human Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań have been granted a patent for detecting a genetic predisposition to aggressive breast cancer.more

We are not seeing a particular increase in Covid-19 infections in the European Union thanks to the fact that many people have been vaccinated or have already had coronavirus, but this could suddenly change as we enter the winter months, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced at a press briefing yesterday.more

Nurses across the UK will go on strike for the first time over two days in the fortnight before Christmas after ministers rejected their pleas for formal talks over NHS pay. more

The Chinese authorities today reported the highest balance of coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic. All regions of mainland China are battling outbreaks of infection, and according to analysts, lockdowns are now affecting more than 400 million people and 21.1 per cent of China's GDP.more

Ambulance crews could not respond to almost one in four 999 calls last month – the most ever – because so many were tied up outside A&Es waiting to hand patients over, dramatic new NHS figures show. more

The number of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales has returned to pre-pandemic levels. more

The proportion of young people experiencing mental health issues has nearly doubled in just over a decade, a new report suggests. more

Since Twitter introduced a paid verification system and fired thousands of content moderators, the number of accounts spreading health misinformation has increased and their reach has increased, The Guardian reported.more

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has criticised the police recruitment process, saying “a big proportion” of officers in his force are “not properly deployable” due to health and performance issues. more

All GP practices in England will be able to book cancer tests directly for their patients from later this month, NHS bosses say. more

Doctors and nurses are “absolutely frightened and petrified” about how bad this winter will be for the NHS in England, hospital bosses have revealed. more

Water fluoridation provides a modest benefit for children’s teeth in an era of fluoride toothpastes, but does not shrink inequalities in dental health between rich and poor communities, research has revealed.more

A Swedish study indicates that people with Alzheimer's disease can be identified even before symptoms appear. This could mean earlier and more effective treatment.more

Chinese authorities announced record Covid-19 balance sheets in Beijing and a number of other major metropolises. Over 4,000 infection was detected in Guangzhou, where lockdown is spreading to other areas. There is also a bonfire in Chongqing in the west of the country.more

At least 200,000 people took part in a protest in the Spanish capital against the health reform plan in the Autonomous Community of Madrid. The protest paralyzed the city's transport network.more

NHS bosses are increasingly paying premium rates for agency staff to plug holes in rotas, the BBC has found. Spending in this area rose by 20% last year to hit £3bn in England.more

Now the nation’s number crunchers have provided evidence that remote working may be partly to blame for the UK’s chronic labour shortage, with tens of thousands of extra people reporting as long-term sick due to lockdown related injuries.more