Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Philippa Roxby Health reporter Getty Images The fragments were found in two samples of Aedes vexans mosquitoes, the health security agency said West Nile virus, which mainly spreads between birds but can also infect people if they’re bitten by an infected mosquito, has been detected in UK mosquitoes for the…
Getty Images Women with very dense breasts should be offered additional scans as part of the UK’s NHS breast screening programme to help detect more cancers and save lives, researchers say. A Cambridge University-led study of more than 9,000 women found using different scans from traditional mammograms could treble the number of cancers detected in…
Mosquitoes should be given malaria drugs to clear their infection so they can no longer spread the disease, say US researchers. Malaria parasites, which kill nearly 600,000 people a year, mostly children, are spread by female mosquitoes when they drink blood. Current efforts aim to kill mosquitoes with insecticide rather than curing them of malaria….
Kelly Morgan BBC News, West of England Listen: How horses help young people facing emotional and mental health challenges A charity has called on the NHS to fund equine-assisted services which help children with their emotions and mental health. Cotswolds-based Horses for Wellbeing helps young people develop trust, emotional regulation and confidence. Its users told…
Health Secretary Wes Streeting, is “actively reviewing” banning or restricting the private prescription of cross-sex hormones to young people, according to evidence given to the High Court. Government lawyers say an expert panel will report in July on the use of this type of medication by under 18s wishing to change their gender. An application…
PA Media Lord Patrick Vallance, former government chief scientific adviser, gave evidence to the inquiry in west London Boris Johnson pushed for a more “ruthless, authoritarian approach” towards people who refused to self-isolate during the pandemic, according to documents seen by the Covid inquiry. The instinct of policy makers was to favour “punitive measures” over…
Navtej Johal & Sophie Woodcock BBC News, Nottingham Family handout Shelly Easom (pictured with her son Josef) said she felt “ashamed” after hearing that he had stabbed someone at a church Two men with paranoid schizophrenia stabbed members of the public in separate attacks weeks before Valdo Calocane’s killings in Nottingham – and all were…
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has urged doctors in England to “vote no” in a ballot on industrial action which gets under way on Tuesday. In a BBC interview, he urged resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, to “work with the government” and warned strikes risked hampering the progress being made in the NHS….
Fi Lamdin & Emma Petrie BBC News Caters Photographic Luke Melling, right, meets Alastair Hawken three years after a life-saving stem cell donation A man with a rare form of blood cancer has travelled 10,000 miles to meet the stranger who saved his life. Luke Melling, 31, from Melbourne, Australia, says he was “staring death…
BBC Tracey Meechan says she feels “forgotten” after 100 weeks on an “urgent” NHS waiting list for surgery Waits of more than two years for NHS specialist appointments and treatment in Scotland have grown in the past year, according to new figures. Public Health Scotland said the waiting list for those referred to an outpatient…
