Health

Hundreds of people in eastern Russia have been placed in quarantine after a laboratory worker died of suspected pneumonic plague.

An inquiry into the deaths of mental health patients in Essex will look at whether the use of a controversial camera system for monitoring patients there should be stopped. 

A hospital trust in Bristol is investigating several staff after it emerged the medical records of an 18-year-old were accessed inappropriately, years after his death.

Farmers around Britain were already struggling after months with no rain in places.

A new daily weight loss pill, also designed to treat diabetes, is now on sale in pharmacies and online across the UK.

A hospital trust in England is in crisis after accusations it is unsafe for patients, a joint Channel 4 News investigation has uncovered.

Despite a shortfall in NHS mental health doctors and nurses, the funds outlined again today are being used exclusively to establish these new premises. 

More than 150 walk-in hubs for people to seek immediate support for mental health care are to be opened across England – with some in easily accessible locations like high street banks and libraries. 

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the worst the country has ever experienced. 

Social care is the thorny issue which politicians have failed to solve for decades. Today though, the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham put it back on the political agenda as he called for a ‘National Care Service’, saying that social care in the UK is “as unfair” as the healthcare system in the US.

We spoke to new defence secretary Wes Streeting about this pivotal week.

We spoke to fire management expert, Lindon Pronto, of the International Centre for Environmental Management.

Tens of thousands of people in the UK are living with missing limbs. Some have been born without them – others have them amputated because of injury or illness.

Just weeks after the harrowing report into Nottingham’s maternity failings, Donna Ockenden will this weekend launch her investigation into maternity care at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.  

We spoke to Michael Gove who was the lead minister in the Conservative cabinet for much of the pandemic, following the findings of the Covid Inquiry.