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Health

Boy who lost seven litres of blood issues plea for more donors

Elliott Wills’s life was saved by emergency supplies of O negative blood, but donor numbers have declined in recent years.
8 Jun 2026
Politics

Schools at centre of meningitis outbreak in Reading named

The UK Health Security Agency said the patients attended Reading Blue Coat School and Highdown Secondary School and Sixth Form Centre.
15 May 2026
Health

Southport survivor ‘devastated’ after NHS staff accessed records without reason

Leanne Lucas said people ‘not involved’ in her care ‘abused their position of trust’ when she was at her most vulnerable.
15 May 2026
Health

Art history ‘could help medics be less judgmental when it comes to obesity’

Obesity was viewed as a sign of wealth for centuries, and future art may depict gaunt faces caused by rapid weight loss from GLP-1 drugs.
13 May 2026
Health

Major trial for human bird flu vaccine launches

Around 4,000 people will be recruited for the study, the majority of which will be in the UK.
22 Apr 2026
Health

Mother in stem cell donor plea to give young sons ‘a chance at a normal life’

Cezar Nica, two, and his brother David, 10 months, have both been diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening genetic disorder.
18 Apr 2026
Health

NHS makes progress ‘in spite of strikes’ as waits fall for fourth month in a row

Despite industrial action, the health service is now within ‘touching distance’ of a key waiting time target of 18 weeks, according to officials.
16 Apr 2026
Health

Alzheimer’s drugs ‘make no meaningful difference to patients’, say researchers

A review, which included licensed drugs lecanemab and donanemab, found the effects were ‘trivial’.
16 Apr 2026
Crime

NHS nurse wins settlement in trans pronoun row

Jennifer Melle, 41, said she was racially abused by a transgender patient at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton after she referred to them as ‘Mr’

13 Apr 2026
Health

Expert teams to be sent to worst corridor care offenders in bid to end practice

Revealing the plan, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said corridor care was ‘unacceptable and undignified’.
11 Apr 2026
Health

Skin patch from organ donor helped patient spot his new lung was being rejected

Darren White, 53, was given steroids when tests showed his body was rejecting his new lung three months after his transplant.
8 Apr 2026
Health

‘Register4Ronnie’: Urgent stem cell plea for baby boy with rare blood disorder

Ronnie, from Merseyside, had just started crawling when his mother Laura noticed he was bruising more.
1 Apr 2026
Health

Weight loss jabs’ medicine-cosmetics blurring ‘raises black market drugs risk’

Profit margins from black market sales of medicines can rival cocaine and heroin, MPs were told.
25 Mar 2026
Health

MenB jab to be offered to some Year 11 school pupils in Kent as cases fall

As of 12.30pm on Monday, 20 cases of meningitis had been confirmed, with a further three under investigation.
24 Mar 2026
Politics

Government to fund replacement of four Jewish community ambulances

Staff from the London Ambulance Service will also be on hand to offer support to the team in Golders Green, Wes Streeting said.
23 Mar 2026
Health

Mother’s campaign for menB jab catch-up programme gains renewed momentum

Marrissa Mullans said her son Alfie, who died at 18 almost three years ago, would be ‘devastated’ by events in Kent.
20 Mar 2026
Health

Meningitis strain at the centre of Kent outbreak explained

The number of cases linked to the outbreak has reached 29.
20 Mar 2026
Science

First lab-grown oesophagus offers hope to children born with rare condition

The engineered tissue was implanted into pigs, which were able to swallow and eat normally after six months without the need for immunosuppressants.
20 Mar 2026
Health

Meningitis vaccine expansion explained

Health Secretary Wes Streeting visited the University of Kent on Thursday.
19 Mar 2026
Health

Meningitis vaccine rollout begins but why is the jab important?

About 5,000 students will be offered a jab alongside courses of antibiotics.
18 Mar 2026
Health

Surge in pharmacy bookings for meningitis jabs amid Kent outbreak

Superdrug told the Press Association that bookings for its service are 65 times higher than a week ago.
17 Mar 2026