Heatwave: Fires blaze after UK passes 40C for first time
Tim Stark, who alerted the fire brigade and whose own house was destroyed in the blaze, told BBC 5 Live...
Health
What is the Marburg virus and how can it be avoided?
Two people in Ghana have died from the Marburg virus - and 98 been quarantined - raising fears of a...
Woman had smear test every day to help its discovery
Dr George Papanicolaou was the inventor of the Pap smear test which can detect early cancerous cells in the cervix...
Covid booster: Will be offered to all over 50s this autumn
Prof Anthony Harnden, the deputy chairman of the JCVI, said: "The Covid-19 boosters are highly effective at increasing immunity and,...
Ambulance services on fringe of collapse – paramedic
An NHS spokesperson added that the health service was facing huge challenges, including a near record-breaking level of 999 calls,...
Pressure on NHS emergency services getting worse in England
"Due to this, paramedics are then stuck, unable to transfer their patients into hospitals and get back on the road,...
Turkey teeth: Are cut-price reality TV teeth worth it?
Months later she discovered she had actually been given crowns. These involve 60% - 70% of the natural tooth being...
Menopause: Specialists needed to reduce contradictory advice
"I would like to see a woman getting to a certain age - say 45 - and a healthcare professional...
School mindfulness lessons don’t work for teenagers, study says
Dr Dan O'Hare from the British Psychological Society said: "It is important not to view mindfulness sessions as a panacea,...
Highest alert level for ambulance services in England
Association of Ambulance Chief Executives managing director Martin Flaherty said: "The NHS ambulance sector is under intense pressure, with all...
Cambridge hospital ‘under pressure’ as Covid absences double
A spokeswoman for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Addenbrooke's, said: "With the recent rise in Covid infection...
‘Disability fashion line was a lightbulb moment’
A young Londoner with chronic health conditions is helping to change the lives of people with disabilities. Victoria Jenkins founded...
Sickle cell: ‘I want patients to know there is hope’
A woman who became one of the first people to have a stem cell transplant for sickle cell disease on...
The Aids activists who took on big pharma in South Africa
In the late 1990s cases of HIV/Aids soared in South Africa. By 1998 almost 3 million people were infected, and...
Prof Sir Jonathan Van-Tam hails colleagues at knighthood ceremony
Dame Jenny, now chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, said: "We're both public health doctors and in many...
HMP Lewes Covid measures ‘not humane’, says watchdog
"For more than two months at least, the planned regime allowed prisoners to be unlocked for just half an hour...
Covid: Norfolk man says he is ‘fighting every day for life’
Konstantinos Kanatsaropoulos from Caister, Norfolk, spent two months in a coma after getting Covid. He was discharged from hospital in...
NHS trials using drones to deliver chemotherapy drugs
He added that it was hoped the new delivery method, which has been created in partnership with tech company Apian,...
