Prostate cancer symptoms and treatment: What to check for
There is no single, diagnostic test. Doctors make a diagnosis based on various measures. This can include a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test and a scan, as well as a…
Weight loss jabs for unemployed not dystopian, says Wes Streeting
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has dismissed suggestions that plans to provide weight loss jabs to unemployed people with obesity are “dystopian.”. The UK government is launching a five-year trial with…
How do drugs like Wegovy and Mounjaro work?
Getty The government has suggested weight-loss drugs could boost the economy by helping obese people in England get back to work. But NHS experts have warned treatment services are already…
Bumper year for HRT prescriptions on the NHS in England
Getty Images The NHS has had a bumper year for offering hormone replacement therapy (HRT), latest figures show. Some 13 million items were prescribed to an estimated 2.6 million patients…
Cambridge students undergo heart tests after hiker’s death
Hilary Nicholls Clarissa Nicholls collapsed and died while hiking in France Students at the University of Cambridge have been offered heart screenings after a 20-year-old undergraduate suffered a sudden cardiac…
Period pain in teenagers subject of landmark Oxford study
BBC 17 year old Eliza has to regularly take time off from college due to severe period pain A new study will seek to identify changes in the brain when…
Lucy Letby gave baby overdose two years before murders
Cheshire Constabulary Lucy Letby made a “very serious error” in 2013, two years before she began killing and attacking babies Lucy Letby gave a baby 10 times the prescribed dose…
Nut bans no help to allergic air passengers, experts say
Getty Images Airlines often ask passengers not to consume nuts on board Asking aeroplane passengers not to eat nuts is unlikely to prevent an allergic reaction mid-flight – but cleaning…
I must keep working despite terminal diagnosis
My Name’5 Doddie Foundation Scott Stewart keeps working in order to help support his daughter, Rae, with his wife, Robyn When Scott Stewart was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND),…
NHS needs better plan around obesity jabs, warn experts
An urgent review is needed to make sure people in England can get weight loss jabs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro on the NHS, top experts warn. It comes a…