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Waiting times for processing benefits and government compensation claims for mesothelioma patients have doubled within a year.

People with long Covid have tell-tale, distinct patterns of inflammation detectable in the blood, which could potentially be targeted with...

Thousands of people worried about the risk of early or young-onset dementia are to be offered pioneering new blood tests.

The nation’s health is in significant decline and regional health inequalities are soaring, worrying new research has suggested.

More than two-thirds (69%) of Universal Credit claimants have mental or behavioural health disorders, and nearly half (48%) have musculoskeletal...

More than one billion people in the world are now living with obesity, research has found, with obesity among adults...

It could take as long as 50 years for the gap in healthy life expectancy between the north and south...

A government-backed review has made several recommendations on how employers can support autistic people to thrive at work.

Academics at the University of Leicester are conducting a national, government-backed mental health and wellbeing survey, including work to gauge...

Leaky blood vessels in the brain could be what cause the ‘brain fog’ often associated with long Covid, new research...

Occupational health physician Dr Shriti Pattani has developed a care pathway that brings together health and work support.

A study is being carried out to gauge the experiences of UK academics who have energy-limiting conditions or chronic illnesses....

A dramatic increase seen in child obesity levels during the Covid-19 pandemic is set to cost the UK over £8bn...

Researchers have developed an app that, they argue, can help to reduce the impact of tinnitus, or ringing in the...

More than one million people in England died prematurely in the decade after 2011 through a combination of poverty, austerity and Covid.