health

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Essex nurse has been struck off after failures in her care of a vulnerable patient with Covid-19 in the hours before…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ozempic and Wegovy are shrinking patients’ muscles at an ‘alarming rate’ and may raise their risk of health problems later in life,…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Mutations spotted in the H5N1 bird flu virus are “concerning” and may suggest the potential for avian influenza to jump to humans…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The post, which went viral with more than 100,000 shares in May 2020 during lockdown, prompted indignation across the country,  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Switzerland reported a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the eastern region of Grisons, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Poorer countries are increasingly losing healthcare workers to wealthier ones as the latter seek to shore up their own staff losses from…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The death toll in the ferry disaster off the coast of Gabon last Thursday has risen to six, with thirty-one people still…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Cold and flu remedies are being urgently pulled from shelves over fears they could be deadly. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute More than 100 people have been killed in Malawi and Mozambique after Cyclone Freddy, packing powerful winds and torrential rain, returned  Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute A coked up Metropolitan Police officer caught stoned at work tried to fool a misconduct panel by claiming he had ‘consumed nothing…