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Delayed diabetes checks potentially contributed to England’s excess death rate

A charity report from Diabetes UK suggests that delayed diabetes checks as well as routine ...

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Adult social care strategy states unpaid carers are key to helping the sector

Highland Council and NHS Highland have drafted a new adult social care plan that will ...

Children Headlines

First UK baby born using three people’s DNA

A groundbreaking IVF procedure was performed by doctors in Newcastle which has allowed for the ...

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Antibiotics to be prescribed at pharmacies under new GP plan

Under a new health plan that was launched in England today, pharmacies will be equipped ...

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Medical cannabis ‘effective’ for helping cancer pain, study shows

New research suggests that medical cannabis helps relieve cancer pain and can complement other painkilling ...

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Private healthcare is not a silver bullet for cutting NHS wait times, study finds

A new report from the Health Foundation has concluded that making greater use of the ...

Children Headlines

Not too cool for school: pupils set to keep classrooms warm

A new Welsh primary school opened its doors to pupils this week and has become ...

Adult Headlines

Beginning of the end of Alzheimer’s? New drug slows the disease by a third

The build-up to Dementia Awareness Week this year is unlike any before – donanemab is ...

Headlines Health

NHS strikes: pay deal signed off for one million workers

Announced yesterday, more than one million health staff in England are set to receive a ...

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To infinity and beyond: world’s first disabled astronaut rides the ‘vomit comet’

John McFall is the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first ever para-astronaut, selected to study how ...