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The number of over-75s meeting NHS exercise guidelines in England has jumped by 25 per cent in eight years, while young people’s fitness levels have fallen, new figures show.Adults are recommended to do at least 150 minutes of moderate activity per week, which can include walking, cycling or gardening.Since Sport England started collecting data in

Whether you seek it out or stumble across it, no supermarket is without one; the free-from foods aisle has become a staple for shoppers who have gluten-free bread or lactose-free milk on their list. Once the destination of an unlucky few, the free-from market is booming; the annual UK market for free-from is now worth

Known as mRNA-4157 (V940), the jab is created to target tumour neoantigens, which are expressed by tumours in a particular patient.The jab carries coding for up to 34 neoantigens and activates an anti-tumour immune response based on the unique mutations in a patient’s cancer.A phase two trial of the jab, involving pharma firms Moderna and

Whether you call it acid reflux or heartburn, the feeling of a burning sensation in your chest is hard to ignore. The burning sensation is caused by stomach acid travelling up out of the stomach and into the food pipe towards the throat. As it moves, it irritates the lining of your gastric tract, causing an

Elderly patients are waiting an average of seven hours on A&E trolleys, with delays of more than five days in one case.NHS data show that almost 100,000 elderly patients endured waits of more than 12 hours last year – a 25-fold increase since 2019.The figures, revealed under Freedom of Information disclosures, show average trolley waits

A one-month-old baby with a congenital heart condition was airlifted to a Vatican hospital after the NHS refused to operate on him.The parents of the baby boy are understood to have been told by an NHS hospital that he was too ill to perform the specialist cardiac surgery that he would require.The family of the

The measures also promise to streamline payroll systems, tackle blunders and ensure doctors are not left out of pocket.Amanda Pritchard, NHS chief executive, said: “Our doctors are there for our patients who need their expert, specialist care everyday – so we must do everything we can to make sure we are there for them too.“We

The shadow health secretary said he had heard stories of “1980s technology” holding staff back, and doctors being “armed with pagers when the rest of the world ditched them in the last century”.In one example, an NHS surgeon had “accessed a PDF file with his patients’ notes only to find they had been scanned in

Nurses took an average of a week off sick for stress last year, NHS data show.The figures released by NHS England show almost seven million days lost to illness last year from nurses and health visitors.Of those, almost a quarter were for stress-related illness, analysis reveals.The 1.67 million days lost to leave for stress, anxiety

Did you know, memory foam was first developed for astronauts? In the 1970s, NASA commissioned scientists to develop a material to cushion astronauts during lift-off and relieve the pressure of g-force. One clever soul quickly realised the material would make a great mattress and with that, memory foam mattresses were born in the 1990s (closely