The Health Secretary is planning to set up academy style hospitals to tackle post-pandemic waiting lists. Under the re-organisation, Sajid Javid will give more ... read more
Paying extra to NHS bosses does not boost quality of hospitals as managers spend more time on box-ticking than boosting performance, study suggests Employing mo... read more
Health chiefs have extended the shelf life of Pfizer’s Covid jabs over fears millions of injections would have to be binned. A slowdown in the booster dri... read more
Not so long ago, the very idea of swallowing live bacteria to boost our health would have seemed utterly ridiculous. But in the past two decades, the market for... read more
NHS hospitals will soon start trials of a new procedure to treat obesity by turning off the ‘hunger hormone’. Kirsten Kerfoot, 32, a nurse and mother of o... read more
In the wake of the pandemic, millions are reporting trouble sleeping. For the past three days we’ve shared advice from consultant neurologist and sleep specia... read more
Covid could be turning children into ‘fussy eaters’ because it can distort their sense of smell, experts say Covid can trigger parosmia, which cau... read more
We used to refer to the menopause with a shameful whisper, as the M-word. That has stopped since so many career women and celebrities have spoken out about thei... read more
Covid infection can cause debilitating brain condition that causes more damage than Alzheimer’s in some elderly people, study finds Many elderly people wh... read more
For Helen and Simon Wright, attending the inquest into the death of their 15-year-old daughter Annabel was always going to be an ordeal. They were, however, det... read more
Could the medieval cure of bloodletting be a treatment for gout? A review of studies involving nearly 1,000 people suggests the ancient therapy, largely abandon... read more
Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, warns that the Omicron variant may not spell the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci, direct... read more
A pro-lockdown scientist today called on the UK to ‘do more’ to prevent flu as a consensus begins to emerge that the worst of Covid is over. Par... read more
Britain’s daily Covid cases plunged for the 12th day in a row today as the fourth wave continued to collapse and workers headed back to offices in their l... read more
Global warming is currently saving the lives of tens of thousands of Brits every year, an illuminating official report has suggested. Around 27,000 fewer people... read more
Deaths caused by Covid in the United States are continuing to rise, with the 1,839 Americans succumbing to the virus every day being a 36 percent increase over ... read more
Coronavirus cases are now falling in virtually every area of England, official figures show as the Omicron wave continues to collapse with deaths six times lowe... read more
Dr Mike Tildesley, who sits on an influential modelling sub-group of SAGE, warned the country ‘was not there yet’ because hospitalisation levels fro... read more
An American man may never be able to use his penis again after his partner accidentally sprayed expanding foam up his urethra in a sex act gone wrong. The 45-... read more
Lockdown has turned Britain to the drink: Millions of people are now drinking up to FIFTY units a week after alcohol consumption soared during pandemic, new res... read more
Two vaccine doses and a previous infection provides 90% protection against Covid for more than a YEAR, new study suggests Two vaccine doses and a previous Covid... read more
One in five people try dentistry at home including pulling out their own TEETH amid staff crisis at surgeries, report shows Report reveals millions of Britons a... read more
