A University of Cambridge‑led report highlights that period‑tracking apps, downloaded over 250 million times, turn menstrual data into valuable commodities. These apps harvest sensitive health ...

hMPV tends to hit hardest in young children, older adults and people with weakened immune systems. A virologist explains. hMPV is likely one of the viruses making us sick this winter.

hMPV around the world. By the end of 2024, China saw a surprising spike in cases of hMPV—enough to catch the attention of public health experts. While there were some suggestions hospitals were ...

Police have launched an investigation into the deaths of patients following heart operations at an NHS hospital, the BBC has learned. Documents seen by us suggest patients suffered avoidable harm ...

NHS England has decided to pause a ‘ground-breaking’ project using GP data to train an artificial intelligence (AI) model, following concerns raised by GP leaders. The BMA and RCGP said they were not ...

NHS England figures published today during national Volunteers Week shows that 71,828 people volunteered in NHS trusts in the last year donating over 6.4 million hours of their time. London was the ...

Tens of thousands of patients with lung and breast cancer are to benefit from a “revolutionary” blood test on the NHS across England which can speed up access to targeted therapy. The new ‘liquid ...

Instead, the NHS should learn from banking, which overcame a lack of standardisation to enable customers to see their bank and credit-card accounts in one place.