Health News

Dry January: 'I saved ?200 by giving up alcohol' (1/2/2024)
Jasmine Hoole was one of the millions who gave up drinking for a month....

Edenfield Centre: Vulnerable patients denied human rights - review (1/2/2024)
A report finds failings at Edenfield mental health unit after BBC Panorama exposed patient mistreatment....

BRCA tests to be offered to Jewish people to detect cancer risk (1/2/2024)
NHS England says it wants to test 30,000 Jewish people over the next two years for faulty BRCA genes....

Mollie Pearce from The Traitors on her disability 'double whammy' (31/1/2024)
Mollie Pearce opens up about life in the castle with a stoma bag called Sid and limb difference....

NHS dentistry: Ex-miner 'thrilled' to get appointment after seven-month wait (31/1/2024)
David Creamer says he has been "living on painkillers and soup" since his teeth fell out in June....

Covid inquiry: John Swinney manually deleted texts to Nicola Sturgeon (31/1/2024)
The ex-deputy first minister says he will apologise "unreservedly" if he "misunderstood" messaging policy....

Medicine stopped in 1980s linked to rare Alzheimer's cases (31/1/2024)
Contaminated injections of growth hormone may have caused five rare cases of dementia, scientists think....

West Midlands has 75% of England's measles cases (31/1/2024)
A consultant epidemiologist at the UKHSA said the outbreak in the region "remains a concern"....

Record Dry January saved the average person ?118 (31/1/2024)
This January was the driest in history with a survey suggesting one in five drinkers gave up alcohol....

Pharmacists to prescribe drugs for minor illnesses (31/1/2024)
Chemists can now prescribe antibiotics and other treatments without patients seeing a doctor....