Millions of people are waiting for mental health support in the UK. Mindscape studio/ Shutterstock According to many experts, the UK is experiencing a mental health crisis. In England alone, an estimated 1.2 million people are awaiting mental health help. Around 270,000 of those waiting are children. The burden ofContinue Reading
Handing a child a mobile phone or tablet when they throw a tantrum may be damaging their ability to manage their emotions, new research suggests. According to the study, if parents regularly use digital devices to calm their children, that child could have issues with emotion regulation – which couldContinue Reading
Throughout the pandemic, one of the key questions on everyone’s mind was why some people avoided getting COVID, while others caught the virus multiple times. Through a collaboration between University College London, the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Imperial College London in the UK, we set out to answer this questionContinue Reading
Halay Alex/Shutterstock Like making best friends with the strangers in the next tent, peeing in a cup because you can’t face the queues for the portaloos and using wet wipes as a shower substitute, being a bit messy is all part of the summer festival experience. But, while you mightContinue Reading
A teenage boy with epilepsy who has become the first child in the UK to have a device fitted into his brain has seen a huge reduction in life-threatening seizures. Oran Knowlson, now 13, had a neurostimulator fitted into his brain last October and has since had an 80 perContinue Reading
Thousands of agency staff could leave the NHS and social care services in the next two years, new research has suggested. More than 20,000 agency staff work across health and social care in the UK – but now a poll of 10,000 workers has revealed that nearly one in fiveContinue Reading
A celebrity sex coach who lost a civil trial over claims he raped his patient opened a clinic with one of the largest private healthcare providers in the UK just months before the incident, court documents claim. TV personality Mike Lousada will be forced to pay more than £200,000 inContinue Reading
A rare, deadly, flesh-eating bacteria is on the rise in Japan, with hundreds of people infected. Over 1,000 cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) were reported in Japan in the first six months of 2024, surpassing the total number recorded last year in the country. The disease is predominantlyContinue Reading
Sneezing is normally a protective mechanism that keeps potentially harmful things out of our respiratory system. ShotPrime Studio/ Shutterstock If you were to envision the kind of accident that would cause a person’s bowels to explode out of their body, you might imagine some sort of gruesome stabbing or grislyContinue Reading
Long-term care dominates but we're also spending more on self-funding care such as physios. PanuShot/Shutterstock The NHS is, once again, a central plank of pre-election debate and given the public’s views on the future of the NHS, waiting times and staffing numbers are being rightly scrutinised. Less attention, however, isContinue Reading
