Smart glasses at Basildon Hospital speed up procedures
Dr Rohan Jagathesan, medical director at the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre, said: "This new innovative equipment allows us to be more...
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What are abortion pills and could they be banned?
They have become the new frontier in the US battle over abortion access. Now, a lawsuit in Texas threatens to...
Candida auris: What is the deadly fungus sweeping through US hospitals?
Transmission is mainly through contaminated surfaces in hospitals. It sticks to intravenous lines and blood pressure cuffs. It's really hard...
Cambridge University: Neuroscientist Christine Holt wins ‘Brain Prize’
Ms Holt, professor of developmental neuroscience in the department of physiology, development and neuroscience at Cambridge University, said: "Our work...
Commercial development of gene-edited food now legal in England
They crossbreed different varieties to produce new ones that grow better and are more resistant to diseases. It can take...
Polio vaccine catch-up push to launch in London
Dr Vanessa Saliba, from the UK Heath Security Agency, told BBC News: "We have early signs that there's less spread...
Dentists: ‘Some children in Norfolk have never seen a toothbrush’
An NHS East of England spokesperson said: "We want children in Norfolk to be able to get high quality dental...
Minimum pricing averts alcohol deaths, study claims
Dr Grant Wyper, public health intelligence adviser at PHS, said: "The findings highlight that the largest reductions were found for...
Henry Dimbleby: Conservatives’ obesity strategy makes no sense, ex-adviser says
"We recently announced £20m to trial new obesity treatments and technologies to help save the NHS billions, and remain committed...
NHS 5% pay offer may end bitter dispute in England
When asked about the fact it had said, earlier in the dispute, that giving more than a 3.5% pay award...
People urged to take gonorrhoea tests as cases rise
Dr Claire Dewsnap, from the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, said: "The rise in gonorrhoea cases provides an...
Cough medicines containing pholcodine withdrawn over safety fears
"Following a thorough scientific safety review of all the available evidence on pholcodine, together with advice from the independent Commission...
Rob Burrow receives ‘Points of Light’ award from Rishi Sunak
Rob Burrow has received an award from Prime Minister Sunak for his campaigning on motor neurone disease (MND).In a special...
Matt Hancock: Eight government WhatsApp Covid messages revealed
Helen Whately, who was social care minister at the time, travelled 50 miles to a Covid test centre so a...
Covid: Was Matt Hancock right to push for schools to close?
At the time, the vaccine programme had just started rolling out, and the teaching unions were once again putting up...
Toxic debate over lab leak theory hampers search for Covid origins
The intelligence assessments are based, of course, on classified information. The different agencies are part of what's known in the...
Isabel Oakeshott reveals why she leaked Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages
Journalist Isabel Oakeshott said she released messages sent by Matt Hancock during Covid as she believes it is in the...
Boy recreates his gran’s 1955 photos to help her with Alzheimer’s
Over the past year, 16-year-old Philip Loveday has been following in his grandmother's footsteps, from 1955, to take the same...
