Changes in young people’s eating habits, tracked during the lockdown in England, show both increases in snacking and families eating together.Researchers found 60% of young people thought more shared family …
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The number of women and girls facing period poverty has risen sharply during the coronavirus lockdown, according to charities working to help them.Women unable to afford or access sanitary products …
NHS England is launching a new service for people with ongoing health problems after having coronavirus.The government says “tens of thousands” of people have long-term symptoms after catching Covid-19.”Your Covid …
Media playback is unsupported on your device The prime minister has joined a nationwide applause to pay tribute to NHS staff on the 72nd anniversary of the health …
Frailty is as important as age or underlying health issues in determining whether someone may die from Covid-19, a study has found.It looked at more than 1,500 patients at 10 …
The government must set out plans for an inquiry into its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the health service ombudsman has said. This was not about blaming staff but about …
When Mohammed Azeem arrived in Bradford Royal Infirmary he was in critical state, with far too little oxygen in his blood – at one point his oxygen levels were “not …
As a disabled woman, Ginny Butcher is roughly 11 times more likely to die from coronavirus than her peers. New figures also suggest almost two-thirds of Covid-19 deaths in the …
Local authorities are to be given access to postcode-level data about the number of people testing positive for coronavirus in their areas after it was agreed with the Department of …
Dozens of landmarks across the country will be lit up blue later to mark 72 years since the founding of the NHS.Ahead of the health service’s anniversary on Sunday, people …
People being tested for coronavirus in England were not asked to provide addresses for weeks during the height of the pandemic, it has emerged.The BBC understands Public Health England is …
Trials of the controversial anti-malarial drug taken by US President Donald Trump to try to prevent catching coronavirus are to be resumed.UK regulators say hydroxychloroquine and a similar drug chloroquine …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Blood plasma from patients who have recovered from Covid-19 is being tested as a potential treatment for those still suffering from …
Almost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, ONS figures show.But only two-thirds were directly attributable …
Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients can now get a “life-transforming” treatment on the NHS in England. Nine in 10 people with the genetic condition – more than 7,000 in England – …
Almost 90% of people who lost their sense of smell or taste while infected with Covid-19 improved or recovered within a month, a study has found.The study, in Italy, found …
A trial to see whether dogs can detect coronavirus is going “very well”, according to the charity behind it.Six dogs are being trained by Medical Detection Dogs in Milton Keynes.Claire …
As the rest of England continues to emerge from lockdown, a fresh outbreak of coronavirus in Leicester means the city will remain largely closed.The outbreak has prompted criticism about the …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Covid-19 survivor Davide Compagnone was brought back from the brink of death after a struggle with the disease.Now the pharmacist has …
There have been around 300,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and almost 44,000 people have died, government figures show. These numbers only include people who have been tested, …
Staff and residents in care homes in England will receive regular coronavirus tests from next week.Staff will be tested for coronavirus weekly with tests every 28 for days residents over …
Thousands of workers in the government’s new test and trace call centre failed to trace a single contact of a coronavirus case in the first three weeks of operation.Between them …
Seaneen Molloy’s panic attacks stopped when the coronavirus pandemic started. But as restrictions begin to ease, the writer and charity worker from Northern Ireland describes how her anxiety has returned. …
The worst could be still to come in the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, six months on from when the outbreak began. WHO head Tedros Adhanom …
Many people in England are still waiting longer than 24 hours for their coronavirus test results, figures show.Four in 10 tests done by mobile units and three in 10 carried …
A new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic has been identified in China by scientists. It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can …
As the coronavirus outbreak spread across the UK in the spring, about two million people with certain health conditions were advised to “shield” – to stay at home and adopt …
There is no obvious source for a recent surge in coronavirus cases in Leicester, a report has found.Public Health England (PHE) found “no explanatory outbreaks in care homes, hospital settings, …
Media playback is unsupported on your device There has been a significant rise during lockdown in the UK in the number of LGBT people seeking suicide-prevention support. Support …
The number of deaths registered in the UK over one week has fallen below the five-year average for the first time since mid-March. More than 80% of local authorities in …