Private firms providing services to the NHS including healthcare and consultancy have made £1.6bn in profits over the last two years, research reveals. The findings – on the basis of contracts worth £12bn – have prompted claims of “scandalous” profiteering, concern that the health service is being “taken for a ride” and calls for ministers…
In Costa Rica, 20 outbreaks were investigated in 2025 Published: April 13, 2026, 12:05 am The number of foodborne outbreaks in Colombia held steady in 2025 but fewer people fell sick in them, according to the National Institute of Health (INS). The National Public Health Surveillance System reported 661 foodborne outbreaks affecting 7,394 people. The…
Dear Miss Manners: A very dear friend of mine, with whom I’ve been friends for 50 years, has grown a full set of very long facial hair. He now has a full beard and a large mustache, all gray. Years ago, I was assaulted by a man with exactly that gray facial hair. Even looking…
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The government is to announce an overhaul to school food standards in England that will lead to calorific classics such as fish and chips and steamed sponges being banned. The new rules of the first major update to school food standards in 13 years will apply from September. They are part of efforts to lower…
“I’ve been sounding the alarm about it for a couple of years.” — Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine’s National School of Tropical Medicine in Houston, discussing yellow fever. “Being safe and having little downside doesn’t mean amazing results.” — Raman Madan, MD, of Northwell Health in Glen Cove, New York, after…
Katie Holmes love a pair of statement jeans, but she’s getting particularly attached to a specific style for summer 2026. Unfortunately, they’re also one of the trickiest silhouettes to style. While the wide-leg denim trend is making way for slimmer styles in 2026, most fashion-forward celebs and trendsetters have doubled-down on baggy denim by letting…
Voters in May’s local and devolved elections risk putting the NHS in jeopardy if they vote for populist parties, Wes Streeting has said, as he sought to make the health service a key battleground. “The founding principles of the NHS are at greater threat than at any time since the NHS was founded in 1948,”…
GSK has revealed positive results for a treatment for gynaecological cancers as its chief executive, Luke Miels, steps up drug development efforts at the group. The company said that in an early-stage trial Mocertatug Rezetecan, known as Mo-Rez, shrank or eliminated tumours in 62% of patients with ovarian cancer where chemotherapy had failed, and in…
We now know that the 1918 influenza pandemic was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Published: April 12, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is continuing to investigate an outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections that has sickened at least 68 people….
