
How you know if you’ve got a cold or a flu
GP Dr Oscar Duke explains the different symptoms you might experience.
MONDAY, 15 DECEMBER 2025, 09:32

GP Dr Oscar Duke explains the different symptoms you might experience.
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer is embroiled in a class action lawsuit after over 1300 women in the US suffered brain tumours believed to have been cause by Depo-Provera.

Flu has come early and experts predict it could be a particularly nasty season, with a new strain circulating.

An interim report by Baroness Amos finds poor care and dirty wards are blighting England’s maternity services.

Frimley Health NHS Trust is the latest to reintroduce masks as UK hospitals come under strain.

Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.

A tribunal said NHS Fife harassed Sandie Peggie but dismissed other claims she made against the health board and a transgender doctor.
Statistics show a clear spike in eight cancers, but some experts say that many cases never needed to be found.

It’s a mix of two major types of the virus, and has been found in someone who recently returned from Asia.

Advice Direct Scotland (ADS) says it wants tighter restrictions on cosmetic procedures in new Scottish legislation.
People who have insurance under the Affordable Care Act are being asked to pay more for plans that will cover less of their care.

Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.
In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the United States, aided by allies of President Trump who sought to promote her unproven theories about the origins of Covid-19. Her husband still can’t find her.
Officials said one person was killed and 20 others were poisoned after eating death cap mushrooms, which look and taste like safe mushrooms but can cause liver failure.
Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials.
The younger brother of Ken Kesey, the novelist and counterculture luminary, he turned a defunct creamery into what is now Nancy’s Probiotic Foods.
As head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin has weakened protections against toxic chemicals, say members of the MAHA movement.
A federal panel voted on Friday to recommend halting the at-birth shots for all infants, in a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending the nation’s vaccine policy.

The health secretary says the aim is to tackle a rising demand for services and pressure on the NHS.
Abbott Diabetes Care said it had received reports of more than 700 injuries that may be associated with malfunctioning sensors.

Record number of patients in hospital in England with flu for this time of year, figures show.