Health

Students share their experiences with freshers’ flu – and what they’ve done to get better. Source link

Baroness Kathy Willis talks about the importance of green and blue spaces in cities. Source link

Nick TriggleHealth correspondent and Jim ReedHealth reporter Getty Images Covid vaccination Pharmacists in England say they are facing “major issues” with large numbers of patients booking appointments for Covid jabs only to find they are no longer eligible. The criteria has been tightened this year so that only those aged 75 and older are being…

Newly qualified doctors in their first year of practice in England have voted in favour of strike action in a row over a shortage of jobs. The British Medical Association (BMA) union says thousands of resident doctors are ending up without training places when they move from year two to three. This year there were…

This chart collection compares the United States and other similarly large and wealthy nations across various measures of care quality to show how the U.S. stacks up against its peers and how that has changed over time. Generally, the U.S. performs worse in long-term health outcomes measures (such as life expectancy), certain treatment outcomes (such…

Chris explains how he makes time for nature, even when living in a big city. Source link

Michelle RobertsDigital health editor Getty Images More than 100 million people, including at least 15 million children, use e-cigarettes, fuelling a new wave of nicotine addiction, the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning. Children are, on average, nine times more likely than adults to vape, it says, based on available global figures. The WHO’s Dr…

Editorial Note Originally published in August 2024, this data note was updated on October 6, 2025 with data from 2023, the most current Medicaid data available at the time of this analysis. Medicaid is the primary program providing comprehensive health and long-term care coverage to approximately one in five low-income Americans. States administer Medicaid programs…

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 has been awarded for discoveries that explain how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body’s own cells. The prize is shared by Japan’s Shimon Sakaguchi and US researchers Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell. They discovered “security guards” that eliminate parts of the immune system…

That Time of the Month with Naga Munchetty, Dr Nighat Arif & Dr Christine Ekechi Source link