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Calls for legal right to paid leave for IVF treatment

Natalie Rowntree from North Yorkshire has recently started her IVF journey, and describes the process as "intense". The 38-year-old has had seven IVF-related appointments in...

Maldives bans smoking for younger generations

The Maldives has banned young people born on or after 1 January 2007 from smoking tobacco, becoming the only country in the world to...

Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water sources for 6 million people

Water companies have been ordered to tackle potentially harmful levels of so-called forever chemicals in drinking water sources for more than six million people,...

Private baby scan clinics ‘putting expectant mothers at risk’

Some high-street clinics are putting lives at risk by allowing unqualified non-specialists to carry out baby scans, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) has warned. The...

Traitors star is ‘grateful for abnormal anatomy’

The Traitors star and Welsh opera singer Elen Wyn says she is "grateful to have an abnormal anatomy" as it ultimately led to her...

Thousands of poorest Scots to receive free weight-loss jabs in trial

Thousands of people from some of Scotland's most deprived areas are to be offered free weight-loss jabs as part of government-funded research. Up to 5,000...

At 21, I was crushed by a stranger’s joke about going bald. Then the way I looked at myself changed

​​I'm bald, and that bothered me for a long time. ​​ It bothered me that I was bothered. But just one swipe down my Instagram...

Medics got me through cancer but they can’t help with my menopause

When Kat Denisi was diagnosed with breast cancer at 32 she was put into a medically-induced menopause to stop her hormones fuelling the tumour. The...

‘My child won’t walk again after failed surgery’

"My daughter walked into Addenbrooke's talking, and she was wheeled out non-verbal." A mother is demanding "accountability" from Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Trust after...

Long A&E waits causing heartbreaking suffering, charity says

The government has been urged to get a grip on long A&E waits with campaigners saying it is the rot eating away at the...

Health officials worried as flu season comes early

The UK's winter flu season has begun five weeks earlier than usual, health officials are warning. The UK Health Security Agency said cases were rising...

‘New birth advice change is our girl’s lasting legacy’

A couple whose six-day-old daughter's death sparked national reform in maternity care for mothers say it will "change lives". Mabel Williams suffered fatal brain injuries...

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