The NHS must come up with a 10-year plan to best use its £20bn funding boost in England, Theresa May will say. In a speech in London, the prime minister will stress the NHS must ensure “every penny is well spent”. It follows Mrs May’s announcement that the NHS budget would rise by 3.4% a […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device A senior MP leading an all-party group looking at medical cannabis has called the existing laws “bizarre and cruel”. Sir Mike Penning MP has called for “fundamental reform” of the system. “Medical cannabis is a health issue, not a misuse of drugs issue,” Sir Mike said in a […]
Extra funding for the NHS in England has been announced by ministers in what they are calling a 70th “birthday present” for the health service. The spending plan means the £114bn-a-year budget will rise by over 3% a year on average in the next five years. That will mean by 2023 the budget will be […]
A severely epileptic boy whose mother fought for him to be treated with cannabis oil has been granted it by the Home Office. Home Secretary Sajid Javid said Billy Caldwell, 12, will receive the oil after doctors made clear it was a “medical emergency”. Billy began using cannabis oil in 2016 to control his seizures. […]
The recent deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain have sparked discussions about mental illness in America: How can we prevent further tragedies like these? So far, proposed solutions include tackling the stigma surrounding depression and increasing gestures of social support. Such discussions are valuable, but they ignore the glaring problem of unequal access to mental […]
A 15-year-old boy has surprised doctors by contracting cowpox, a historical disease now so rare it has not been seen in Wales for more than a decade. The teenager, who lives on the Wrexham-Cheshire border, developed lesions on his hands after feeding calves. Public Health Wales said the last reported human case in Wales was […]
People over 40 in England will be given advice on dementia as part of their free NHS health check. Guidance on how to reduce the risk of dementia will be given to patients at GP surgeries and through community health programmes. Public Health England (PHE) said up to one-third of dementia cases could be improved […]
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Researchers in Hungary who found that normal and overweight dogs behaved differently in tasks involving food say the dogs’ responses were similar to what might be expected in normal and overweight humans. The study suggested dogs could be used as models for future research into the causes and psychological impacts of human […]
By Christine Vestal Amid sharply rising rates of teen suicide and adolescent mental illness, two states have enacted laws that for the first time require public schools to include mental health education in their basic curriculum. Most states require health education in all public schools, and state laws have been enacted in many states to […]
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday inched closer to proposing a regulation to replace an Obama-era rule that clarified which bodies of water qualified for federal protection. The proposal comes more than a year after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt signed an executive action to revoke the 2015 Clean Water Rule, also known as the Waters of […]
Everyone experiences intermittent stress in life. Professional and personal demands, illnesses and trauma can wreak havoc on your mental health. Sometimes that stress can trigger your body to react in ways that can be frustrating and embarrassing. These include issues like brittle nails, acne breakouts and hair loss. What gives? The type of hair loss that results […]
Four o’clock in the morning is the time most babies are born spontaneously in England, with the majority arriving between 01:00 and 07:00, a study shows. While planned C-section births tended to happen on weekday mornings, births after induced labours were more likely to occur around midnight. Overall, more than 70% of births took place […]
Children in England have already consumed more than their recommended sugar intake for 2018, according to Public Health England survey – and we’re only halfway through June. Four to 10-year-olds are eating more than twice as much sugar as they should per day, equivalent to 13 sugar cubes. That amounts to 4,800 sugar cubes on […]
A new study suggests that you should pay special attention if you’re taking any drugs that list depression as a side effect. Roughly half of U.S. adults use prescription medication. An estimated 37.2 percent are taking medications for which depression is a possible side effect, according to a cross-sectional survey study published by JAMA on Tuesday […]
By Fred Schulte Maria Fabrizio for KHN Purdue Pharma left almost nothing to chance in its whirlwind marketing of its new painkiller OxyContin. From 1996 to 2002, Purdue pursued nearly every avenue in the drug supply and prescription sales chain — a strategy now cast as reckless and illegal in more than 1,500 federal civil […]