Health

Phone alarms are what get teaching assistant Layla through her day. She has four alarms to wake up, one to get dressed, another to pack her work bag, and so on. “There’s a million different ones. Different times of the day,” says the 30-year-old as she scrolls through the alerts on her phone. “It feels…

The study estimates that around 550 people died as a result of the heat between 21 and 29 May, and nearly 2,200 died between 18 and 28 June in England and Wales. May temperatures hit a new UK high of 35.1C at Kew Gardens on May 26 – a significant increase on the previous high…

Riders wearing Taylor Swift-inspired outfits have completed a 300km bike ride in 24 hours for a seven-year-old girl. The Ride for Rori saw them cycling non-stop from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to Marble Arch in London. For the past 20 months, Rori, from Appleton in Oxfordshire, has been battling cancer and just finished…

A German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients. A court in Berlin on Wednesday found the 41-year-old man, named only as Johannes M. in line with German privacy rules, guilty of murdering 12 women and three men between September 2021 and July 2024. The authorities believe…

The public will be asked who should receive social care and how it should be paid for as part of a review into the system. Baroness Louise Casey, who is leading a commission into adult social care in England, described the system to the BBC’s Radio Four Today programme as “impossible” to navigate and called…

Older women face a lower chance of fertility treatment working, even when using young donor eggs – with a marked drop-off from around the age of 49, new research suggests. Experts studying 1,774 women say the findings challenge the idea that donor eggs can fully “reset” the reproductive clock, but should not put older couples…