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There are ways patients can try to improve their chances of getting organ transplants, Read MoreContinue Reading

Government failures in care settings created an environment that allowed Covid to spread like wildfire, an official inquiry has said. The sixth report from the Covid inquiry said the care sector appeared to be “something of an afterthought” in the early stages of the pandemic and there was no “protectiveContinue Reading

Image source, Monica Thomas Image caption, Monica is the founder of charity Women’s Health Hope This report contains detailed descriptions of medical symptoms. Monica Thomas was in her teens when she started experiencing intimate itching and soreness, but despite numerous trips to the doctors it was dismissed as thrush. HerContinue Reading

Rural lives cannot be an ‘afterthought’, healthcare campaigners say Image caption, Donal O’Cofaigh of Save Our Acute Services (SOAS) says people are “already losing their lives” due to a reduction in rural services Rural lives “cannot be an afterthought” when it comes to health transformation, campaigners have said. In aContinue Reading

Pope Leo XIV has thanked the faithful in St. Peter’s Square for their prayers after his hospitalization for lung surgery, Read MoreContinue Reading

Equatorial Guinea has tackled malaria with a successful strategy on Bioko Island, Read MoreContinue Reading

Ebola cases in Kenya rose to eight on Sunday after another person tested positive while in quarantine, having been identified as a contact of the first patient, Read MoreContinue Reading

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread to an eighth province, Read MoreContinue Reading

The health secretary has asked the NHS to draw up urgent plans to speed up ending hospital “corridor care” for children. Yvette Cooper told the BBC there would be new standards for caring for children in A&E in England, with figures collected on corridor care by age for the firstContinue Reading

Pope Leo XIV has returned to the Vatican after undergoing surgery to remove a lung tumor, Read MoreContinue Reading