health

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDoctors and pharmacists have been warned to stop prescribing diabetes drugs to people who simply want to lose weight. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteConcerns codeine-based cough syrup could be addictive and have serious health consequences have led the UK medicines safety regulator to consider  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteResidents of Singapore possess the world’s most powerful passport, a new report has revealed, while Britain has jumped from sixth to fourth place. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Nigerian man who forced himself to cry for an entire week has told how he went temporarily blind.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCerberus’s unrelenting heat is still gripping Europe, with temperatures predicted to hit 48C today in Italy. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minutePolice investigating a Kenyan cult suspected of practising starvation to “meet Jesus” have exhumed over 400 bodies, a senior official has said….

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Government will begin a consultation on the ban of plastic wet wipes “as soon as possible”, water minister Rebecca Pow has said.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe exploitation and harassment of migrant workers in Qatar remains rife, despite promises the World Cup would transform their rights, i has learnt. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnce untreatable and associated with being permanently quarantined in a “colony”, leprosy has terrorised countless countries over the course of human history….

Reading Time: < 1 minuteExperts, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), have shared fears strands of H5N1 could “infect humans more easily”, amid increasing reports Read More