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Demand for weight loss drugs is becoming so “unsustainable” that demand may soon outstrip supply, pharmacists have warned.The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) said supply problems could…

A top US medical body has expressed “deep concern” to Robert F Kennedy Jr over news reports that the health secretary plans to overhaul a panel…

In 1989 David Clune was a young dad with four children when he was diagnosed with hepatitis B and C. Being told he wouldn’t get to…

One morning in February last year, I received an urgent call from the journalist Paul Burston, alerting me to alarming recent social media posts by a mutual friend,…

Coffee and chocolates traditionally signal the end of a meal at a wedding. But now many couples are ditching the sweet stuff and doling out cigarettes…

In January Guardian Australia told the story of Simon Bogemann who developed a nerve condition known as peripheral neuropathy after consuming excessive vitamin B6 from multivitamin…

Reform voters could be tempted to back Labour at the next election if there was more focus on a “bills and blue lights” strategy to repair…

Joan MacDonald is an influencer. There’s no other word for it, though she winces a little when she says it. But she is an influencer, and…

‘Knowing there might be an alternative brings relief and hope’When she was only 18, a few months into an undergraduate degree in classics at Warwick University,…

Frances Ryan describes nursery staff donning aprons and gloves, in an effort to prevent the spread of measles (Look at the rise of measles in England…