Health

The Taliban deputy leader has appealed for international aid as Afghanistan struggles to cope with the thousands left injured and homeless by Wednesday’s earthquake.

We spoke to Terrisa Bukovinac from the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising group and Jose Vela – a member of Austin City Council who’s pro-choice.

It was a decision that America knew was coming.

It is the first time the company has cast a disabled actor in a lead role.

Now improving the health of all women is the aim of England’s first women’s health ambassador. Dame Lesley Regan says too often girls and women have to fight too hard to get the treatment they need. But it is a huge in-tray. Everything from periods to the menopause and the maternity scandals which have seen…

A trans woman who survived so-called conversion therapy has told this programme that people will “take their own lives” as a result of the goverment’s decision to exclude transgender people in their plan to ban the controversial practice. The decision has caused widespread condemnation from LGBTQ+ groups and human rights charities. The government was forced…

Covid infections are rising once again across the UK. Total infections are now back at the levels seen last May, though still well down on the peak of pandemic. New types of Omicron variant seem to be driving the resurgence of the virus. Across the UK, 1.4 million private households are estimated to have had…

Today is Clean Air Day – the UK’s largest air quality campaign embracing business, schools and the wider community which aims to highlight the dangers of air pollution. 

The number of monkeypox cases in the UK has jumped by almost a third, with a total of 470 infections now recorded across the country.

Health and social care editor Victoria Macdonald takes a look at the state of mental health in England. 

An exclusive Channel 4 News investigation has uncovered an 800% increase over the past five years in coroners issuing official warnings about cases involving mental health issues.

Millions of residents of China’s most populous city have been freed to leave their homes.

Now thousands of high street dentists in England have stopped providing care on the NHS since the pandemic – leaving millions of people who cannot afford private treatment without access to vital health services.

We spoke to Professor David Heymann, an infectious diseases expert at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and began by asking him to explain Monkeypox and its symptoms.

Lee Fryatt’s son Daniel took his own life while studying at Bath Spa University three years ago.