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The alarming statistics have triggered a wider discussion among healthcare professionals and policymakers.

Some studies have shown that non-sugar sweeteners may actually lead to weight gain.

Under the new plans, treatments for seven common conditions including earache and sore throats will be available without seeing a doctor.

At present, there are no population-based tools to broadly screen for pancreatic cancer but those with a family history are at high risk for it.

Members of the union rejected a government pay offer on Friday and immediately announced an escalation in strike action.

Junior doctors in Britain began a four-day strike over pay on Tuesday that is likely to cause unprecedented disruption to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), prompting the government to warn of a risk to patient safety.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hailed the agreement as "affordable for the taxpayer" and allowing his government "to deliver on my promise to halve inflation".

The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK has revived its Check-in and Chart service for vulnerable, isolated, or lonely patients.

Nurses in England will pause planned strike action to enter "intensive talks" with the British government on pay and conditions, both sides said on Tuesday, in the first sign of a break in a long-running dispute.

Teddi Shaw, a baby with extremely rare and fatal genetic disorder, becomes the first person in the UK to receive Libmeldy, a £2.8 million drug.

England's National Health Service (NHS) on Monday announced a two-year recovery plan to help restore emergency care and frontline services, currently struggling through one of their toughest winters.

The family of the woman whose body was found in a "mummified, almost skeletal state" after almost four years has slammed the NHS for failing to save her.

Since industrial action first started to gather speed last year, concerns have been raised about a wage-price spiral causing entrenched inflation.

A British girl who had all four of her limbs amputated after she was wrongly discharged from hospital has won a settlement of £39 million.

Former UK health secretary Sajid Javid has come under fire for suggesting that people should be charged to see their general practitioner (GP).

Tens of thousands of nurses in England will strike in February for the third time in as many months, adding further pressure on British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over crippling disruption to key services caused by industrial action.

Mortality rates showed that Christmas week was the deadliest in England and Wales in almost two years.

The union has organised unprecedented walkouts by nurses in recent weeks -- the first in its 106-year history.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday he was willing to discuss pay rises for nurses ahead of a meeting with public sector trade union leaders in an effort to end the biggest wave of industrial disputes in decades.

One in every five patients picked up by an ambulance in England last week took more than an hour to be admitted to emergency care.

The UK's health system is under huge pressure, with very high pre-COVID waiting times having been exacerbated during the pandemic.

The Ministry of Defence is also in talks with the National Health Service, Downing Street said, after ambulance drivers voted to join nurses in striking this month.

Numerous other public and private sector staff, from lawyers to airport ground personnel, have also held strikes this year

Numerous other public and private sector staff, from lawyers to airport ground personnel, have also held strikes this year.

The exact nature of the strike is yet to be determined, but is likely to disrupt operations and appointments even as patients are already facing record waiting lists.

Persistent Covid infection -- which is different to long Covid or repeated bouts of the disease -- occurs in a small number of patients with already weakened immune systems.

The police have launched an investigation after the staff at one of the UK's biggest NHS mental health hospitals were caught mistreating their patients.

NHS England set aside £1.5 billion to cover an expected ₤485-million increase in energy bills. But the estimate was made in May and prices have risen again.

Moderna's innovative bivalent vaccine will target both the original strain and the now dominant Omicron variant.

At present, the NHS spends around £10 billion on diabetes care each year.