MPs could back ban on prescription charges for hormone-replacement therapy for menopausal women Labour’s Carolyn Harris expects sufficient votes for her priva... read more
Getting flu jab for six years in a row cuts risk of developing dementia by 14%, new study suggests Scientists believe annual jabs gradually strengthen the agein... read more
Revolutionary drug ‘could reverse damage’ caused by Alzheimer’s by allowing nerve cells to mend themselves, scientists say Drug codenamed NVG-291 could r... read more
UK is facing a midwife exodus as more than half want to quit as pandemic leaves services ‘on their knees’ Royal College of Midwives survey found ove... read more
Sharing photos food on Instagram and other social media sites could be bad for your waistline, claims new study Sharing snaps of treats on sites such as Instagr... read more
It is one of Covid’s most distinctive and curious symptoms: the loss of the sense of smell, which blights more than half of sufferers. Among the many things... read more
Individuals with a cervix. Pregnant people. Chestfeeding gestational parent. Bodies with vaginas. If you’ve not encountered these phrases before, you might ... read more
My wife passed away four-and-a-half years ago and I am getting married again. I’m 70 and my fiancee is 56. I have a pacemaker and I take the blood pressure ... read more
Residents in some care homes are still being subjected to ‘abominable’ Covid isolation rules almost two months after the Government scrapped them. Since A... read more
A once-a-week jab can put type 2 diabetes patients ‘into remission’ – slashing blood sugar to normal levels, cutting cholesterol and blood pressure, and h... read more
If you’re thinking of having Dysport injection treatment, then you’re not on your own. That’s because it’s quick, virtually painless, and above all R... read more
There has been a stark rise in Britons’ thirst for caffeinated drinks – at least 600 million litres are drunk every year, 200 million more than ten years ag... read more
Yes, I’m a geek and I love numbers. So much so that when I first came up with a new diet, in 2012, I decided to call it The 5:2 Diet, which I was assured, at ... read more
Fewer than 1 in 10 children infected with coronavirus suffer from ‘long Covid’ symptoms more than three months later, study finds A new study looked... read more
Very few cases of COVID-19 were detected at summer camps where more than 90 percent of those eligible were vaccinated and other mitigation measures were in plac... read more
The nation’s top infectious diseases expert said Americans who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are several times more likely to be hospitalized ... read more
Uptake of coronavirus vaccines in older teenagers appears to have stalled already, according to UK Government figures. Only around 55 per cent of 16 and 17-ye... read more
One in 20 children in England were infected with Covid on any given day last week, official data revealed today amid fears a fourth wave may be just around the ... read more
Schools have been instructed by councils to bring in a suite of stricter Covid curbs in response to rising infections among pupils. Hundreds of primaries and se... read more
Just six in 10 children have received both MMR vaccines in parts of London, according to official figures that lay bare the huge geographical divide in uptake. ... read more
Rates of depression in Britain are starting to fall after shooting up during the Covid pandemic, official data shows. The Office for National Statistics estimat... read more
A 15-year-old boy who inserted a knotted USB cable into his penis ended up needing surgery after it got stuck inside him. The unidentified teenager, of London... read more
