People with long Covid can experience potentially serious gastrointestinal symptoms, such as constipation and diarrhoea.
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Ethnic minority groups experienced higher rates of severe illness and death during the Covid-19 pandemic because of their greater risk...
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Half the world will be overweight or obese within 12 years if prevention, treatment and support do not improve.
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The extreme fatigue and 'brain fog' that people with long Covid can experience may be down to the virus causing changes in the brain structure.
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What is functional neurological disorder and how might it affect employees? Everything occupational health teams need to know.
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Jaguar Land Rover has set up a six Centres for Wellbeing to take its occupational health and wellbeing support to the next level.
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The government needs to go “further and faster” on reforming occupational health, SOM has said ahead of the Budget.
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People from ethnic minority backgrounds are no longer significantly more likely to die of Covid, finds the Office for National Statistics.
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A National Audit Office (NAO) report adds to the evidence of a growing crisis in NHS mental health provision.
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The chief medical officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, has called for workplaces to be monitored for indoor air pollutants.
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An event at the House of Lords heard calls for the government to recognise the under-used potential of OH to keep people of all ages in work.
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Occupational health can make “a monumental difference” to the wellbeing of patients with cancer, SOM has said ahead of World Cancer Day.
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Official figures show long Covid is still prevalent, but declining. Many have had symptoms for more than two years.
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More than half of people out of work since the pandemic because of long-term sickness are aged over 50, according...
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There needs to be a shift from treating people when they become too ill to work, to preventing them from getting ill in the first place, a group of MPs have been told