The UK advertising watchdog has had to take down hundreds of adverts for cosmetic surgery clinics abroad and weight-loss jabs as dangerous ads target “mummy makeovers”, The Independent has been told. The Advertising Standards Agency is also taking down 100 unsafe or misleading adverts a day for prescription-only medicines, withContinue Reading
The NHS will face scrutiny over alleged failures to listen to whistleblowers’ warnings about baby killer Lucy Letby after the nurse was convicted of another attempted murder. Letby was convicted of trying to murder a “very premature” infant by dislodging her breathing tube in the early hours of February 17Continue Reading
The UK nursing regulator’s new interim chief executive has stepped down just four days into the job after facing widespread staff backlash over her links to a high-profile race discrimination case. Multiple staff working at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) raised concerns to its directors over the appointment ofContinue Reading
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
