US President Donald Trump has said the prime ministers of Thailand and Cambodia will halt fighting “effective this evening”. Trump made the announcement after telephone conversations with the two leaders following deadly border clashes in recent days which have left at least 20 people dead and half a million displaced. Neither Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul […]
Sonia Hopkin Tiegan Jarman was found unresponsive in her bedroom on 6 March The mother of a girl who died while copying a “horrible” social media trend is calling for children to be taught about the dangers of solvent abuse. Sonia Hopkin was left “heartbroken” after the death of her 13-year-old daughter, Tiegan Jarman, who […]
Joe McFaddenHealth reporter Rose Stokes Rose Stokes is a freelance journalist and mother of two After giving birth to her second child, Rose Stokes was exhausted all the time. “I couldn’t really do anything more than the bare minimum in terms of looking after my kids. I’d put them down at seven and have to […]
Jim Reed,Health reporterand Wesley Stephenson,BBC Verify PA Media The NHS has urged those eligible to get vaccinated against flu to help limit the severity of symptoms The NHS says it’s facing its “worst-case scenario” after the number of people in hospital with flu jumped by 55% in a week. NHS England chief executive Sir Jim […]
Christian Fuller,South Eastand Mark Norman,South East health correspondent Mark Norman/BBC A pop-up vaccination clinic is available at The Bevy community pub in Brighton The NHS is offering flu jabs in an East Sussex pub as part of a campaign to get more people to have the vaccination. Across the county, 52% of eligible people have […]
Mae Edward McCann yn dal i fynnu mai iddo ef yr oedd y planhigion a’r siocled, a hynny i’w helpu dygymod â’i lewcemia. “Felly fe gafoch chi eich carcharu am fod ag un bar o siocled yn eich meddiant a 40 planhigyn?” gofynnodd y barnwr Geraint Walters. “Faint o arian wnaethoch chi o’r fenter?” gofynnodd […]
Getty Images The latest figures show Scotland has reached a high level of flu activity Pharmacies have warned that private stocks of flu vaccines are running low. It comes as lab-confirmed cases rose by 24% to 2,331 cases, from 1-7 December, compared with 1,875 the previous week. Hospital admissions for flu increased by 15% from […]
Next week’s strike by resident doctors in England may be averted after ministers offered the British Medical Association a fresh deal. The doctors’ union has agreed to put the offer to members over the coming days – if they support it, the five-day walkout starting on Wednesday 17 December could be called off. The offer […]
Chloe Hayward,BBC Newsand Hugh Pym,Health editor BBC Paige, who has type 1 diabetes, came into hospital with flu and dangerously high sugar levels At England’s busiest emergency unit, all the beds are full by midday. As one patient leaves his room at Leicester Royal Infirmary’s acute unit, cleaning staff are waiting outside. He is barely […]
Alison HoltSocial affairs editor BBC Keira Bell says she regrets taking puberty blocking drugs as a teenager Campaigner Keira Bell has told the BBC she believes the planned clinical trial of puberty blocking drugs for gender-questioning children is unethical and children “are essentially going to be harmed”. The Pathways trial, run by King’s College London […]