Boris Johnson today insisted that Britain’s turbocharged Covid booster campaign is going faster than planned, despite official data showing the country is... read more
Alcohol-related deaths in the UK have risen to the highest level in nearly two decades, official figures show as experts warn Covid lockdowns fuelled dangerous ... read more
Pregnant women who follow a Mediterranean diet may be less likely to have a baby born too small, a study suggests. Spanish scientists followed 1,200 mothers-to-... read more
Boris Johnson today told ministers that the Omicron Covid variant appears to be even more transmissible than Delta, raising fresh doubts about Christmas freedom... read more
None of the 100-plus partygoers who caught Omicron at a Norwegian Christmas party believed to be the world’s biggest coronavirus super-spreader event have... read more
Smoking rates in Britain continued to fall last year, according to official data released today. An Office for National Statistics (ONS) report showed usage dro... read more
A&E crisis sparks 220 lost operations every day as NHS creaks under weight of Covid fallout More than 220 patients a day having vital operations cancelled i... read more
Stay away from Xmas parties if you have the sniffles: One in three people with cold-like symptoms actually have Covid, top professor says Professor Tim Spector ... read more
South Africa’s meteoric Omicron outbreak shows no signs of slowing yet, with daily infections nearly tripling in a week. The National Institute For Comm... read more
Mixing and matching first and second Covid vaccines may work better, according to a study that questions Britain’s original jabbing strategy. All 46millio... read more
Half of us can’t judge drink-drive limit and believe we are safe to get behind the wheel after boozing, study suggests Alcohol experiment shows half of us... read more
For a better night’s sleep Bose Sleepbuds II £219, amazon.co.uk These earbuds deliver sounds to help induce sleep while also blocking out intrusive noise... read more
When buying over-the-counter drugs or being prescribed medication by your GP, what’s the one thing you want to know? The answer is obvious, of course: how we... read more
Prozac may be the first treatment for an eye condition that affects more than half a million people in the UK, causing blurred or restricted vision. That’s th... read more
Flick through any spa brochure or glossy magazine and you’ll find descriptions aplenty of the ‘healing’ properties of massage. Go for one of these luxury ... read more
If you’ve ever stood on the scales and not liked what you’ve seen, here’s a crumb of comfort. The truth is that more than half of your body weight is un... read more
The sun was shining, the poolside music playing and Rachel Humphrey, her husband Chris and their three children were enjoying a longed-for holiday in Tenerife. ... read more
Record £2.8m payout for NHS stillbirth errors: Couple whose unborn baby died following series of blunders get huge compensation payout Sarah and Jack Hawkins g... read more
Feeling overwhelmed by the sensation that you’re going to be sick is one of the most miserably debilitating experiences — pity, then, people who live with n... read more
Just one sentence, that’s all it was — one of millions my father, Nigel Starmer-Smith, had uttered during his long career as a rugby commentator. But that o... read more
South Carolina nurse faces up to 35 years in prison for ‘filling out fake COVID-19 vaccine cards for people who had not received the jab’ Tammy McDo... read more
The super mutant Omicron Covid variant is circulating within the community, the Health Secretary confirmed today. Sajid Javid told MPs ‘multiple regions o... read more
