The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the outbreak of monkeypox a global emergency. The new classification is the highest possible. It comes after a sharp increase in the number of cases of the virus, which prompted an urgent meeting of the WHO’s emergency committee. There have now been more 16,000 cases of the virus […]
Health experts have urged parents to keep their children out of the sun as a heatwave hits the UK. A heat health alert has been issued for parts of the UK, with temperatures expected to reach over 30 degrees during the week ahead. Temperatures will be highest across the South East but most parts of […]
The death of Dame Deborah James has prompted a surge in traffic to the NHS website’s pages on bowel cancer. Dame Deborah James died on Tuesday 28th June at the age of 40. She was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer in 2016 and recently revealed that she was undergoing end of life care in a […]