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Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to bring back the presidential fitness test, a series of physical tests for schoolchildren in the US that…

Nine out of 10 nurses have rejected a 3.6% pay award for this year and warned they could strike later this year unless their salaries are…

A report into the death of a five-year-old Rotherham boy sent home from A&E has called for national guidance to take into account parents’ intuition that…

The year my body revolted, I read all 1,296 pages of War and Peace. I did very little else. My body had become stuck in a…

As five days of strike action by resident doctors come to an end, the BMA has written asking me to return to the negotiating table. I’ve…

Scientists are beginning to understand that ageing is not a simply linear process. Instead, recent research appears to show that we age in three accelerated bursts;…

Yvonne Hughes was 19, and attending the funeral of a friend with cystic fibrosis, when she realised: “Oh shit, I’m going to die of this.” She…

It is the simple life-saving sequence taught in many a first aid lesson: when someone collapses, first check their airways, then breathing and finally circulation before…

The world could face a shortage of 13 million nurses by the end of this decade. For her new film, Swiss director Petra Volpe imagined the…

On Monday evening, a man brandishing an AR-15-style rifle walked into the east midtown Manhattan office tower where the NFL is headquartered and killed four people…