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Junior doctors have voted to accept a government pay deal worth 22.3% on average over two years.

Labour have promised to "end the 8am scramble" by allowing patients to "easily book appointments to see the doctor they want, in the manner they choose". But the Doctors’ Association UK says the manifesto pledge will not be possible under current funding.

Amid rising medicine prices, low health insurance coverage, and stagnant household incomes, alarming reports reveal that nearly a fifth of the drugs circulating in Africa are counterfeit, frequently slipping through regulatory cracks.

Patients are receiving cancer diagnoses in public areas, and may have to undergo intimate examinations there too, the Royal College of Nursing says.

Getting dressed, exercising, and completing household chores, are some of the tasks they are unable to take on, due to their regular, ongoing symptoms

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx has been revolutionised following the biggest ever donation to a medical school by the late David 'Sandy' Gottesman

The Dutch manufacturer Phillips has been forced to recall millions of breathing devices following reports of foam entering users' airwaves - and the FDA claims they are connected to over 560 deaths

A vet has revealed the gross reason why you should never flush your pet’s poo down the toilet, revealing it could lead to a whole host of health issues for people

It's important to keep note of expiry dates when it comes to medication, as one in three consumers keep medicine past their expiry date despite the potential dangers this could cause

A landmark case has awarded Christobel Grant's family a six-figure payout after the pensioner was exposed to asbestos in her council house in Scotland

Having a dedicated reusable water bottle is great for the environment but as one woman found out, they have to be cleaned thoroughly or they could cause some nasty illnesses otherwise

Clogged arteries, spinal cord nerve damage and damage to the retina in the eye could all be candidates for treatment with the new living robots, researchers said

Victor Hugo Quiroz suffers a condition which affects one in 50,000 people, leaving him with fragile skin which could lead to infections, sores and bruises at the slightest touch

A massive blast at a guest house completely destroyed the property in Pennsylvania but a man inside managed to escape with his life while witnesses said they are shocked he survived

A persistent cough turned out to be a serious health condition and left a man with a scarred lung and having to stay under the care of medics in hospital for two days

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The revolutionary anti-ageing medication, developed by a firm in the US, may be on the market as soon as 2026 after regulators gave it their approval with hopes that it can help delay ageing in larger dogs

The death of a young girl who contracted a rare disease after becoming infected with a bug that eats brain tissue while on holiday has left her family devastated

Around 2,200 people died from drug-resistant infections last year, as the UK Health Security Agency said a post-pandemic bounce back in illnesses due to lower immunity in lockdown

A new device is being used to assess the bitterness of pills and may help people to take their medication by preventing horrible-tasting tablets from getting stuck in the throat

And four in ten have to visit a healthcare professional multiple times to get to the bottom of the issue - with a tenth of these waiting over three years for a diagnosis

Two-thirds of men will have their pain diagnosed within 11 months - but less than half of women are lucky enough to get a diagnosis in this same timeframe

Blood-thinning anticoagulants are now prescribed for most of the people in England with atrial fibrillation, and the scheme is estimated to have saved NHS England £100million in treating strokes

An international team of researchers analysed genetic data from more than 1.3 million participants of which 80,000 had migraine in the hope of developing new drugs to treat it

The iconic nature documentarist was followed by Stephen Fry and Sir Sean Connery - as well as Absolutely Fabulous leading lady, Dame Joanna Lumley