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Large amounts of rubbish made from plastic can be seen washed-up on the shores of the harbour at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, November 19, 2018. — Reuters Plastic pollution is a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday. The new review …

Emilia Belli Westminster correspondent, BBC Wales News Mel Wallace Mel Wallace was a keen motorbike rider but now, as she waits for a hip replacement, she struggles to put her own socks on NHS patients from Wales who need knee and hip operations in England face lengthy delays after a health board asked English hospitals to copy Wales’ longer waiting …

Josh Parry LGBT & Identity Reporter Joey Knock Joey decided to pay a private pharmacy for a course of gonorrhoea vaccinations in 2024 Gonorrhoea vaccines will be widely available from today in sexual health clinics across the UK, in a bid to tackle record-breaking levels of infections. The jabs will first be offered to those at highest risk – mostly …

Clare Lissaman BBC News, West Midlands Nue People who attend a wellbeing and cancer support centre made a mural for its walls after working with two artists Two artists have worked with children and users of a wellbeing and cancer support centre to create new murals in a Staffordshire town. Local artists Kate O and Wingy worked with pupils from …

Dr Sunita Sah explains to Drs Xand and Chris van Tulleken why many people find it difficult. Source link

A picture of a human brain taken by a positron emission tomography scanner, also called PET scan, is seen on a screen on January 9, 2019, at the Regional and University Hospital Center of Brest (CRHU – Centre Hospitalier Regional et Universitaire de Brest), western France. — AFP PARIS: Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics have been detected accumulating in …

Amy Gladwell BBC South West Investigations Lauren Woodhead BBC England Data Unit Eady family Claire Eady believes her mother’s fatal crash could have been avoided Claire Eady believes that if the rules for older drivers were different her mum would still be here today. Last summer 79-year-old Geraldine Gibson died after pulling out into oncoming traffic near her home in …

Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News Getty Images A growing number of US teenagers are using caffeine pouches to get an energy rush, say experts who worry the trend could soon take off in the UK. The small teabag-like pouches, placed between the lip and gum, deliver a quick caffeine hit, straight to the bloodstream. Some social media influencers …

Support 2gether Ciara O’Goan and Una Leonard have experienced postnatal depression and anxiety first hand. A community group from Omagh has “saved lives” for hundreds of women, its members have said. Support 2gether offers support and education to mothers who are living with antenatal and postnatal depression and anxiety. A finalist in the BBC’s Make a Difference Awards 2025, the …

Sophie Hutchinson Health correspondent Getty Images A former nurse has lost her High Court challenge against the registration of England’s first private gender clinic for teenagers. Susan Evans, and a mother who asked not to be named, had argued that the health regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) had “acted irrationally” in registering the Gender Plus Hormone Clinic. On Thursday, …