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A new education toolkit to encourage healthy behaviours in children is being trialled in schools across Nottingham. The Nutrition Advisory Team has created the ‘Nutri Kit’ with support from the University of Nottingham’s Food Innovation Centre. It is...

This month, around 150,000 NHS doctors will start to receive a pay rise after the government accepted the recommendations of the Independent Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration’s (DDRB). As part of the award, doctors...

People and businesses are being invited to share their views on how to make non-surgical cosmetic procedures – including Botox, laser hair removal and dermal fillers – safer as thousands complain of ‘botched’ procedures. The government’s...

Photo credit: Fabio De Paola/PA Wire As 14 million children and adults prepare to kick off the grassroots football season¹ and excitement is still high following this summer’s tournament, hopes are high for the footballing future...

Cooking food thoroughly and avoiding some types of vegetables and salad during a course of antibiotic treatment could potentially reduce antibiotic resistance, by preventing bacteria carrying resistance genes getting into the gut, according to a new...

The government will seek views on adding pack inserts into tobacco products to encourage more smokers to quit as it launches a new consultation today. Placed inside the packaging of cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco, they...

The UK government Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay has written to the devolved administrations inviting them for talks about how all parts of the UK can work together to tackle long-term waiting lists in all parts...

Eighty percent of the UK’s population have blinds in their homes, but over 70 percent have never received blind cord safety advice, that’s according to the latest research from the Royal Society for the Prevention of...

Animal-based proteins, processed fruits and vegetables, and discretionary foods such as sweeteners and coffee contribute are the most at risk of being produced using exploitative practices, a new study finds. The new report published in Nature...

A team of researchers have been awarded funding to investigate the impact of short spells of exposure to high temperatures during early pregnancy on the long-term health of the child. A multidisciplinary team of scientists at the...