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More than 130,000 people across the country are to be offered NHS health ‘MOTs’ in the workplace from next month,...

Breakthrough treatments to tackle lung cancer and dementia are on the horizon, with a lung cancer vaccine now being tested...

With demand for mental health support rising, proper assessment always needs to be your starting point when working to help...

The NHS’s ‘soups and shakes’ programme has helped nearly a third of participants in England to put their type 2...

As many as one in 10 adults prescribed opioids for chronic pain will go on to experience opioid dependency or...

Reducing child poverty in England, including scrapping the two-child benefit cap, would significantly boost child health and narrow general regional health inequalities, finds research.

Younger employees – those aged 18 to 34 – are driving demand for workplace health benefits, a poll has suggested,...

Two new treatments, one for tackling osteoporosis after menopause and a gene therapy for the blood disorder beta-thalassaemia, have been...

Doctors have called for a ban on artificial stone being used for kitchen counters and worktops because of the risk...

Community pharmacies are in ‘deep distress’ with financial and demand pressures forcing almost all to stop offering some NHS and...

A medication used for autoimmune conditions has been found to be effective in relieving the pain and stiffness caused by...

The government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has announced who will be eligible for NHS Covid vaccinations this...

Failing eyesight and high cholesterol could be two red flags for possible future dementia, research has concluded.
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Many people who have been hospitalised with Covid-19 continue to have cognitive and psychiatric problems even two to three years...

Thousands of people could be living undiagnosed with incurable lung conditions despite seeking medical help for coughs and chest infections,...