Six-time Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy has announced that his cancer is terminal. In an interview with the Sunday Times,, external he says doctors have told him he has between two and four years to live. He told the Sunday Times that he had been diagnosed with primary cancer in his prostate, which had […]
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has dismissed suggestions that plans to provide weight loss jabs to unemployed people with obesity are “dystopian”. The UK government is launching a five-year trial with pharmaceutical giant Lilly to test if the weight-loss drug Mounjaro can help get more people back to work and ease the strain on the NHS […]
Jonathan Coffey and Judith Moritz BBC Panorama There are two parallel universes in the Lucy Letby story. One can be witnessed every day in Liverpool at the public inquiry into her case. Here, the matter of Letby’s guilt is settled. The question for the judge is why Letby was able to harm babies for so […]
Now one in four adults in the UK is obese. Wegovy can help people lose around 15% of their starting body weight before the benefits plateau. Despite constantly being labelled a “skinny drug” this could take someone weighing 20 stone down to 17 stone. Medically, that would improve health in areas like heart attack risk, […]
Image source, Jeannie AmbroseImage caption, Jeannie Ambrose, one of about 1,000 affected patients, says Enhertu should be made available on the NHS Catherine Burns and Vicki Loader Health Correspondent and Health Producer More than a thousand patients with advanced breast cancer are being denied a drug that can keep them alive for longer. It is […]
Image source, Getty Nick Triggle and Philippa Roxby BBC News The government has suggested weight-loss drugs could boost the economy by helping obese people in England get back to work. But NHS experts have warned treatment services are already overstretched trying to deal with unprecedented demand from patients wanting these drugs. How do Wegovy and […]
Image source, Hilary NichollsImage caption, Clarissa Nicholls collapsed and died while hiking in France Helen Burchell BBC News, Cambridgeshire Robbie Kalus BBC News, Cambridgeshire Students at the University of Cambridge have been offered heart screenings after a 20-year-old undergraduate suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. Clarissa Nicholls collapsed and died from an undiagnosed arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) […]
Image caption, 17 year old Eliza has to regularly take time off from college due to severe period pain Katharine Da Costa BBC News A new study will seek to identify changes in the brain when teenagers experience period pain and whether it is linked to developing chronic pain in later life. In what is […]
Image source, My Name’5 Doddie FoundationImage caption, Scott Stewart keeps working in order to help support his daughter, Rae, with his wife, Robyn When Scott Stewart was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND), he knew he wanted to keep working to support his family. His reduced mobility meant he had to give up his job […]
The Archbishop of Canterbury has called the idea of assisted dying “dangerous” and suggested it would lead to a “slippery slope” where more people would feel compelled to have their life ended medically. The head of the Church of England was speaking with the BBC ahead of the first reading in parliament of a bill […]
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