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The NHS will shift a huge amount of care from hospitals into new community health centres to bring treatment closer to people’s homes and cut waiting…

Money for hospitals in England is to be linked to patient ratings, ministers have announced, as one of the health bosses tasked with implementing the government’s…

Hundreds of people have reported problems with their pancreas linked to taking weight loss and diabetes injections, prompting health officials to launch a study into side-effects.Some…

More than 110 million people across Europe suffer high levels of health-damaging noise pollution, according to a report. The resulting physiological stress and sleep disturbance leads…

Aggressively marketed vapes threaten to undo progress made on smoking control, according to the World Health Organization.Officials, speaking at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in…

The US is in a record-breaking heatwave, with tens of millions people on alert. A persistent heat dome is blanketing much of the midwest and spanning…

Domestic abuse is a public health emergency, experts have claimed, after a report concluded that the NHS is failing victims by not training staff to spot…

I suspected I had polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) long before it was confirmed. The signs were there: the acne scars that littered my back, the irregular…

In 2023, New Jersey’s Office of the Secretary of Higher Education signed a first-of-its-kind agreement with a digital mental health provider, Uwill, to provide free access…

Developing countries need a fresh round of debt relief, to prevent money urgently needed for health and education being diverted to creditors, according to a major…