Medicare Advantage plans, which enrolled more than 34 million Medicare beneficiaries or 54% of the eligible Medicare population in 2025, typically offer extra benefits, such as dental, vision, and hearing, often for no additional premium, as well as lower cost sharing compared to traditional Medicare without supplemental insurance. These additional benefits usually come with the…
Michelle RobertsDigital health editor Getty Images Flu has come early this year and experts predict it could be a particularly nasty season because a new strain of the virus is circulating. The NHS has already sent out a “flu jab SOS” to vulnerable people. How bad might this winter be, and should you buy a…
Steven BrocklehurstBBC Scotland PA Media Nurse Sandie Peggie, pictured after the tribunal judgement, has worked for the NHS for 30 years A nurse who objected to sharing a female changing room with a transgender doctor has won a claim for harassment against NHS Fife but other allegations of discrimination and victimisation were dismissed. Sandie Peggie…
Staff, patients and visitors are being asked to wear face masks at three hospital sites as flu cases rise. The measure has been brought in at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, Berkshire and Frimley Park Hospital near Camberley, Surrey. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the sites, said the number…
Michael BuchananSocial affairs correspondent Getty Images The review looks at the worst-performing maternity and neonatal services Hungry mothers, dirty wards and poor care are blighting England’s maternity services while staff receive death threats for working in some units, according to a new report. Baroness Amos, who is chairing a review into maternity care, said that…
James GallagherHealth and science correspondent BBC A therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers in some patients, doctors report. The treatment involves precisely editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting “living drug”. The first girl to be…
Philippa RoxbyHealth reporter Getty Images A new strain of mpox, previously called monkeypox, has been detected in a person in England, say UK health officials. The virus is a mix of two major types of the mpox virus, and was found in someone who recently returned from travelling in Asia. Officials say they are still…
Teenagers as young as 15 are seeking help after receiving botched Botox treatment and fillers, a charity has said. Advice Direct Scotland (ADS) says it wants tighter restrictions on cosmetic procedures after receiving hundreds of complaints about procedures. The Scottish government has proposed legislation to make non-surgical treatments illegal for under-18s and require procedures to…
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has launched a review into mental health and ADHD diagnoses Source link
Catherine Burns,Health correspondent, Vicki Loader,Health producerand Harriet Agerholm Getty Images Hundreds of GPs across England have told the BBC they think mental health problems are being over-diagnosed. One commonly-held view by family doctors, our research suggests, is that society tends to over-medicalise normal life stresses. But they’re also concerned about how hard it is to…
