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Experts call major spike in deaths on 19 July and following day ‘extraordinary data’ and a wake-up call over dangers of extreme heatThe hottest day on record last summer resulted in 638 more deaths in England than normal, according to official figures,…
Exclusive: The shadow health secretary discusses his plans for the NHS, not becoming the fun police, and Tories’ handling of strikesUK politics live – latest news updatesWes Streeting turns 40 this weekend, so he has been steering clear of the debate o…
Coroner finds in-person GP appointment during pandemic could have saved life of David Nash, 26The parents of a student who died after being wrongly diagnosed in a series of remote GP appointments during the pandemic have said they do not think his deat…
Prohibitionist approach risks fuelling the black market, worsening health outcomes and sending people to jail unnecessarily, experts sayGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe criminalisation of nicotine vaping risk…
Health authorities in Nigeria have confirmed an outbreak of diphtheria, with 25 people mostly children killed in the northcentral Kano state alone.
Study measured glyphosate in urine and found high levels associated with signs of oxidative stressNew research by top US government scientists has found that people exposed to the widely used weedkilling chemical glyphosate have biomarkers in their uri…
Unite members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to take further action in February and MarchAmbulance workers have announced a series of fresh strikes including one next month that was already predicted to be the biggest day of stoppages in NHS hi…
Hody Childress donated $100 a month for neighbors who couldn’t pay their prescriptions until his recent deathA small town in Alabama is honoring a man who paid off his neighbors’ pharmacy bills for years and kept his generosity a secret until shortly b…
Player agent Peter Jess lists 32 AFL players that have retired with some form of brain trauma injury since 2009Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVeteran sports agent and long-term concussion campaigner, Peter Jess…
UK trial across three countries finds that giving patients chemotherapy before surgery was more effectiveGiving bowel cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts the risk of it coming back by 28%, according to the results of a trial experts are ha…