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‘It’s not a nice world to bring children into’: Births fall to the lowest level in 50 years

"It's just not a very nice world to bring people into, and why would I consciously do that when I can choose not to?" Stacey...

Resident doctors to strike for 16th time over pay

Resident doctors in England are to stage a fresh round of strikes in June. The walkout from 07:00 BST on Monday 15 June until 6:59...

Hundreds of children die within months as measles cases soar in Bangladesh

Akira was always a fast learner, her father Al Amin says with pride. At 6 months she was already saying her first words. At just...

‘We knew somebody would die’: Teenage patients ‘ignored’ before fatal NHS trust failures

"We knew somebody would die… and nobody listened." Laura Kenny is remembering her friend Christie Harnett. Both were patients at a mental health unit in Middlesbrough...

Australia confirms first diphtheria death amid worst outbreak in decades

Australia has recorded its first diphtheria death in almost a decade as the country grapples with the worst outbreak of the vaccine-preventable disease in...

PCOS name change ‘more representative of condition’

Changing the name of a metabolic condition affecting more than 170 million women globally is "more representative" of it as a whole-body condition -...

Excessive social media ‘negatively impacts wellbeing’

We all know the feeling of doom-scrolling, the mindless numbing of the brain. But did you know it's actually impacting our wellbeing more in the...

From decades to years – AI could speed search for brain drugs hiding in plain sight

Scientists are using AI to accelerate the search for treatments for neurological conditions that may be hiding in plain sight. Researchers at the UK Dementia...

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