Sam Blanchard

SMOKING has hit a record low with fewer than one in ten adults now lighting up. Half as many people puff on ciggies than in 2011. The Office for National Statistics estimates the rate d…

NHS patients now receive “car park care” as even hospital corridors are too full for A&E arrivals, say paramedics. Unison said ambulance workers are just as likely to look after patients in the…

A CANCER survivor has been fitted with the NHS’s first bespoke artificial tongue. Dr Imogen Brooks lost most of the muscular organ when she had surgery to remove a tumour. She also suffered speech …

WEIGHT-LOSS jabs can be considered for kids as young as ten, the World Health Organisation has recommended. The UN agency, issuing its first advice on treating obese children, said the patients mus…

DIAGNOSIS of ADHD and autism has rocketed but the conditions are not actually more common, a major government review has ruled. It said modern life is more stressful for children and teenagers but …

IT’S not my first rodeo, as the saying goes. Actually, it is though, so I thought why not make it the biggest in the world? Like many Brits, I’ve a new-found obsession for country music, listening …

JUST one energy drink per week could be enough to damage a child’s brain, say scientists. Even tiny amounts of caffeine appear to disturb sleep and raise the risk of mental health problems. A study…

THE NHS will make transgender patients and staff use wards, toilets and showers for their biological sex and not their gender identity under new rules. Health service top brass wrote to regional ma…

ROGUE plastic surgeons will be shut down under plans to end a loophole that allows any doctor to carry out cosmetic procedures. Medics will have to prove they have been specially trained to do oper…

PLANS for rolling out weight-loss jab ­Mounjaro on the NHS are unambitious and reach a “woefully small number of people”, MPs have said. Only around six per cent of eligible patients get or will re…