1 hour ago NHS midwife on ventilator in Barbados after dream holiday turns to nightmare

Alison Phillips, 60, from Whitefield, Bury, was rushed to hospital in Barbados with septic shock and advanced pneumonia after falling ill on a trip celebrating her 60th birthday

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3 h. ago Kemi Badenoch calls on Wes Streeting to stop puberty blocker trial

The Health Secretary has said the trial will ‘provide better evidence for how the NHS can support and treat young people with gender incongruence’.

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4 h. ago The most unhealthy Christmas coffees on the high street revealed

Experts warn against indulging too often in these 'secret sugar bombs', as many of them contain significantly more than the NHS recommended daily sugar intake.

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4 h. ago Milkshakes and lattes to come under sugar tax rules – Streeting

Manufacturers will have to pay the new tax or change their products to fall under the threshold.

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5 h. ago Cardiff City already know their first summer signing as 'class' player blows team

The player has been sensational this season

Sport

5 h. ago NHS urges people not to assume 'tiredness' is normal as it could be autoimmune condition

You should seek help if they feel tired no matter how much sleep they get

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5 h. ago NHS warns you could have common condition and be asymptomatic

The health experts have also said that it could be mistaken for stress or just getting older

Events

6 h. ago The shameful attacks on the Covid inquiry prove it: the right is lost in anti

There is nothing wrong with questioning the mighty cost of the lockdowns, but we can’t let hardline libertarians rewrite Britain’s pandemic historyThat number will stay fixed for ever in public memory: 23,000 people died because Boris Johnson resisted locking the country down in time. As Covid swept in, and with horrific images of Italian temporary morgues in tents, he went on holiday and took no calls. With the NHS bracing to be “overwhelmed” by the virus, he rode his new motorbike, walked his dog and hosted friends at Chevening.Nothing is surprising about that: he was ejected from Downing Street and later stepped down as an MP largely for partying and lying to parliament about it. Everyone knew he was a self-aggrandising fantasist with a “toxic and chaotic culture” around him. But this is not just about one narcissistic politician. It’s about his entire rightwing coterie of libertarians and their lethally dominant creed in the UK media.Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continu...

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6 h. ago Voices: ‘I had to lie to get a test’: Men reveal struggles with prostate cancer screening

Our community has shared frustration over NHS barriers to prostate cancer screening, welcoming David Cameron’s call for targeted PSA tests to catch the disease earlier

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6 h. ago Where to get the shingles vaccine – and other essential winter health checks

It’s important to keep up with these health checks – from vaccinations to breast cancer screening

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6 h. ago Everything Jurgen Klopp has said about Liverpool return as Arne Slot suffers latest loss

Jurgen Klopp has been linked with a sensational return to Liverpool - after walking away from the club in 2024 - and Daily Star Sport looks at everything he's said about the role

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6 h. ago Scottish primary school boys become an internet sensation as Ring doorbell captures their rendition of Christmas hit

The video of the five boys belting out the Wham number one hit has been seen more than 1.4 million times as the group has become a Christmas sensation.

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7 h. ago NHS confirmed full list of people who can get free prescriptions as new figures released

A wide variety of people across the UK could be eligible for free NHS prescriptions - from pensioners aged 60 and over to benefit claimants and those with specific medical conditions

Economics

7 h. ago Mum with 'biggest boobs in Britain' begs for surgery as 36M chest leaves her bedbound

Melissa Ashcroft, 30, has been desperate for a breast reduction for more than a decade and is now crowdfunding £8,000 for private surgery after being told her BMI is too high for NHS treatment

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7 h. ago Adorable moment Scottish primary school boys sing Last Christmas into Ring doorbell camera

The video of the five boys belting out the Wham number one hit has been seen more than 1.4 million times as the group has become a Christmas sensation.

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8 h. ago BT engineer arrived at property to install broadband but left calling 999

David McKenna, 53, subjected his partner to months of horrific domestic violence and issued a chilling threat: 'If you go to sleep, you might not wake up'

Culture

11 h. ago NHS directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via charity

Exclusive: NHS websites pointed women to factsheet featuring podcast by ‘dangerous’ influencers linked to baby deaths• Full story: How the FBS is linked to baby deaths around the worldThe NHS has been directing pregnant women to a website that connected them to the Free Birth Society, an organisation that has been linked to baby deaths around the world after promoting labour without medical support.A number of NHS trusts are directing women who are contemplating a “free birth” to a charity website that until Monday referred to FBS podcasts as a source of “empowering stories” that can help British women “preparing for their own birth”. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago UK charity records original music by people living with dementia

Project aims to unlock memories and sensations for participants while creating nine-track CD, recorded at GlyndebourneOn a stage once presided over by Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Renée Fleming, people living with dementia are recording songs of their own composition.With the microphones of Glyndebourne opera house capturing every note, their voices rise and intertwine. Not echoing old, familiar tunes but shaping entirely new pieces expressing their feelings, hopes and fears – emotions that, when the music stops, their brains can no longer convey in mere words. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago 'Next generation' treatment to cure Leukaemia is given NHS approval

Obe-cel is a type of CAR T-cell therapy developed in the UK and works by genetically modifying cells to enable the body's own immune system to recognise and attack cancer.

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17 h. ago ‘Next generation’ treatment to cure leukaemia given NHS approval

‘The biggest thing it offers is hope,’ says patient involved in clinical trial which cured cancer in significant portion of leukaemia sufferers

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