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Hundreds of four-year-olds among ‘extremely overweight’ patients at 39 specialist centres since 2021More than 6,000 children living with obesity, including hundreds as young as four, have required tre...
Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomesSinging, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, accor...
Health service has given US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to certain data to build integrated platform, according to reportsUK politics live – latest updatesMPs have warned that an NHS decision to gran...
Twenty-two people from MV Hondius cruise spend first day isolating in self-contained flats in MerseysideWhat is hantavirus?Passengers evacuated to the UK from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbrea...
Iranian authorities granted human rights activist Narges Mohammadi bail amid growing concern over her poor health in prison.
Countries such as US and Mexico that have longer hours also have higher obesity rates, research findsThose who work longer hours are more likely to be obese and cutting how much time you spend working...
Soldiers dropped oxygen supplies and medical aid to Britain’s most remote overseas territory• What is hantavirus?Paratroopers landed on a “golf course covered in rocks” to supply medical personnel and...
Wes Streeting says legislation will save lives, but GPs are concerned about liability for errors introduced by other providersGPs and hospitals will be required to share patient data under legislation...
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Liverpool-born actor says depression and anxiety followed death of his father when he was 15The actor David Morrissey has spoken of how “terrible” social...
Previously prohibited use of websites such as Omoggle that connect a streamer to a stranger’s video feed now allowed Last week, at 4am, 19-year-old Sammy Amz was scrolling through X when something cau...
Patient remains on south Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, say health officials, as vessel heads to TenerifeWhat is hantavirus?A third British national has been diagnosed with suspected hantavirus...
Man, 69, is in intensive care in Johannesburg, while expedition guide Martin Anstee, 56, receiving care in NetherlandsWhat is hantavirus?Two Britons who were medically evacuated from the hantavirus-hi...
As the remaining passengers head for the Canary Islands we look at how the virus spreads and what is being doneThe cruise ship hit with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus is on its way to the Canary Isla...
Athlete and sport bodies call for rethink after health and education departments each propose £60m funding cutsMo Farah and more than 70 leading UK sporting bodies have demanded the government rethink...
British Medical Association says review into gender identity services was ‘robust’ after previously rejecting findingsThe trade union representing doctors across the UK has dropped its opposition to t...
At least three households in Barry, south Wales, identified as having contracted the liver infectionHealth authorities have asked parents and carers to be “vigilant with their children’s hand-washing”...
Two British nationals who left MV Hondius before outbreak was detected are already self-isolating at home, say officialsWhat is hantavirus?British passengers onboard a cruise ship hit with a deadly ou...
YouTuber Ruhi Çenet was on board the ship, and filmed the announcement made on 12 April.
‘Clinical consensus statement’ also urges heart doctors to advise patients to not eat late at night, and chew slowlyWant to reduce your intake of ultra-processed food? If so, cook at home more often,...
British guide Martin Anstee among those evacuated from MV Hondius, which is now heading for Canary IslandsExplainer: What is hantavirus?Three people with suspected hantavirus have been medically evacu...