Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Health officials have warned that hospitals are “nowhere near out of the woods yet”, with flu cases persisting at record levelsContinue Reading
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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email Resident doctors in England have started their five-day walkout after rejecting the government’s most recent offer to settle the long-running dispute.Continue Reading
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Nicotine pouch use in the UK has surged tenfold in just five years, with almost 700,000 Britons now using theContinue Reading
Virus snowflakes. Ed Hutchinson, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, CC BY-SA Viruses, as we all know, are invisibly small things that make us sick. But is that the whole story? Zoom in close enough and you’ll discover the complex, unseen world of viruses. Some do make us sick,Continue Reading
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Breathlessness, brain fog and fatigue are symptoms of long Covid that remain difficult to explain – but a group of leadingContinue Reading
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Yau Ming Low/Shutterstock.com With flu season arriving early and NHS leaders encouraging people with symptoms to wear masks in public, a question arises: do masks actually work against the flu? The short answer is that the evidence remains surprisingly weak. Studies conducted before the COVID pandemic generally found that masksContinue Reading
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email People in urgent need of dental care are resorting to pulling their own teeth out, the patient watchdog has found. ThoseContinue Reading
Join the Independent Women newsletter with Victoria Richards for a thoughtful take on the week’s headlines Join the Independent Women newsletter Join the Independent Women newsletter Older women can significantly reduce their risk of early death by walking just 4,000 steps a day, new research suggests. Crucially, this benefit, whichContinue Reading
