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In a one-minute video, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr revoked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation that healthy children…

Health minister urges Australians to stay up-to-date with Covid-19 boostersThe health minister, Mark Butler, has said a new Covid-19 variant is spreading around Australia, encouraging Australians…

Healthcare staff will start encouraging patients to enjoy nature and the outdoors in a new scheme in the West Midlands.More than 40 health organisations have received…

A project in the UK which included young people designing their own play spaces has led to what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s…

Plans for NHS staff to restrain and detain people experiencing a mental health crisis, instead of the police doing so, are “dangerous”, doctors, nurses and psychiatrists…

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, by Carl Zimmer, charts the history of the field of aerobiology: the science of airborne microorganisms. In…

Feargal Sharkey has urged men to get tested for prostate cancer after revealing he was diagnosed with the disease after a GP visit for a sore…

Specialist mental health crisis centres will be opened across England over the next decade in an attempt to reduce crowding in accident and emergency departments (A&E),…

The NHS is to open a network of mental health accident and emergency units across England in an attempt to ease the pressure on overcrowded hospital…

Comments by the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, about children’s “grit” are a distraction from the huge missed opportunity in the government’s expansion of access to mental…