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Hospitals to get 'urgent support' to cut A&E queues
Two hospitals are to get targeted clinically led support in an attempt to reduce...
Patient safety 'at risk during strikes' – union
Hospital chiefs "risked patient safety" by bringing in "untrained" strike-breakers...
Oropouche: The mysterious 'sloth virus' with no treatment
A mysterious virus once confined to the Amazon is now spreading more widely around...
Humans age dramatically at two key points in their life,...
Scientists have found that human beings age at a molecular level in two accelerated...
One million brain scans used to assess dementia risk
Scientists are hoping that access to more than 1.6 million brain scans collected...
Anthony Fauci recovering from West Nile virus
Anthony Fauci, the face of the US government's response to the Covid pandemic, is...
Nanoplastics linked to heart attack, stroke and early death,...
People with microplastics or nanoplastics in their carotid artery tissues were twice...
'Mpox made my throat so painful I couldn’t sleep'
Egide Irambona, 40, sits bare-chested on his hospital bed, next to the window, in...
Tiny shards of plastic are increasingly infiltrating our...
Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards...
Lung cancer patient is first in UK to receive experimental...
A lung cancer patient has become the first in the UK to receive a new experimental...
How worried should we be about mpox?
The rapid spread of mpox – what used to be called monkeypox – in parts of Africa...
Alzheimer's drug lecanemab that slows decline given green...
A drug that can slow the debilitating symptoms of Alzheimer's has been approved...
Drop in people coming to UK to work in NHS and social care
Official statistics reveal fewer people are seeking to come from abroad to work...
What we know about sloth virus - and where it's spreading
There have been more than 10,000 cases reported this year, with 19 in Europe, and...
Indian doctors strike over rape and murder of colleague
Doctors in India have held a national strike, escalating the protest against the...