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 The number of NHS appointments, tests and operations delivered by private hospitals and clinics has increased by almost 500,000 this year,Continue Reading
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Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock Autism charities are important organisations. They provide essential services for autistic people, influence policy decisions, and often speak on behalf of autistic people. This means that how these charities write about autistic people may influence how society understands what it means to be autistic. The words and picturesContinue Reading
Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock Autism charities are important organisations. They provide essential services for autistic people, influence policy decisions, and often speak on behalf of autistic people. This means that how these charities write about autistic people may influence how society understands what it means to be autistic. The words and picturesContinue 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 A biology teacher has become the first patient in the UK to receive “gamechanger” therapy to treat multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosisContinue Reading
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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 Wes Streeting has hit out at the doctors’ union after it announced a fresh round of strikes, warning it is aContinue Reading
Chizhevskaya Ekaterina/Shutterstock When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated organ transplants might make a person “get younger” and even live to 150. The remark was widely dismissed as science fiction. Yet it coincided with genuine scientific progress. Just daysContinue Reading
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