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As many as 3.7 million people are struggling with a ‘work-limiting’ health condition that restricts the type or amount of...

Health and safety professionals need to tackle “unacceptably high” numbers of work-related deaths, the new president of IOSH has said.

The NHS’s Diabetes Prevention Programme could act as a template for other countries in their attempts to tackle the disease,...

Here are five ways that an employer can support an employee with persistent or chronic pain.

A record 4.4 million people are now covered by health insurance through their employer and one million claims have been...

An NHS drive to roll out blood-thinning drugs to people with atrial fibrillation (AF) has prevented almost 17,000 strokes, according...

Living with, and inhaling, air pollution can raise the risk of also having type 2 diabetes, a study has found.

An NHS mobile screening project has identified more than 2,200 people in high-risk communities at risk of liver disease and...

More than two-thirds of women (68%) have experienced a period of poor physical or mental health while at work, yet...

As accessing NHS primary care gets harder, employers are increasingly considering an on-site GP as a cost-effective option.

Large employers should be required to offer menopause ‘action plans’ to employees and women should have a ‘menopause health check’...

A campaign to improve awareness and understanding of urinary tract infections (UTIs) has been launched by the NHS.
The campaign,...

A tool to record the exposure to trauma experienced by police officers has been developed by the charity Police Care...

More than two million years of people’s lives are lost to cancer in the UK every year, despite significant advances...

A clinical trial is set to test whether Covid-19 drug remdesivir may also be able to alleviate or even cure the symptoms of long Covid.