Online doctor calls for other healthcare companies to join in Facebook advertising boycott
An online healthcare provider is calling for their industry to stop all advertising on Facebook and Instagram until they do more to protect the...
Lessons must be learnt from this pandemic, BMA says, as UK Covid death toll...
Responding to news that the number of deaths from Covid-19 has exceeded 50,000 in the UK, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, BMA council chair, said:
“This is...
NHS waiting lists at their highest for 12 years
162,888 people are still waiting to start treatment in the NHS after a year of waiting in October this year - the highest number...
Concerning drop in the number of people with mental health problems seeking help revealed
During April 2020, while the UK was in full lockdown, there was a drop of more than a third in the number of people...
Toxic air making millions of older people at risk as it surrounds their homes
Around six million people aged 65 and over in England, particularly those with lung conditions, are at increased risk of breathing difficulties and having...
Rich nations are vaccinating one person every second while poorer countries have yet to...
One year on from the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the People’s Vaccine Alliance is warning that developing countries are facing critical shortages of...
“This virus is diminished but not defeated.” says Health Secretary
The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told MP’s that the Covid “is diminished but not defeated” as he updated the House of Commons this...
Cancer experts call for the government to take urgent action on the post-pandemic cancer...
In an open letter to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, leading cancer specialist Professor Gordon Wishart, Chief Medical Officer and CEO of...
COVID-19 vaccines have prevented 7.2 million infections and 27,000 deaths
Latest modelling analysis from Public Health England (PHE) and the University of Cambridge’s MRC Biostatistics Unit suggests that the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programme has...
World-first trial tests cannabis-based drug on aggressive brain tumours
A major UK trial of cannabis-based drug Sativex in treating the most aggressive form of brain tumour is to launch at 15 NHS hospitals,...