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Women aged in their 50s and 60s have been urged to practise safe sex after a rise in new cases of HIV in heterosexual groups. As World Aids Day is marked, campaigners say women in this age group could be at greater risk of catching the virus because some are not using condoms. Blue Sky…

This is the moment that a man was reunited with the match steward who saved his life after he suffered a cardiac arrest at a football match. David Ince, 67, from Haverhill in Suffolk, had heart problems during the Cambridge United v Rotherham United match in October. Play stopped while steward Paul Harrison administered cardiopulmonary…

Grace Shaw & Phil BodmerYorkshire BBC Freyja died at five days old of injuries sustained during her birth at St James’s Hospital in Leeds The father of a baby girl who died five days after she was born in a Leeds hospital has said he wants an independent inquiry into maternity services to focus on…

The UK government should offer discount visas to US cancer scientists who have had their research cancelled by the Trump administration, Sir Ed Davey will say. “The UK should step up and say: If Trump won’t back this research, we will,” the Liberal Democrat leader will say in a speech to his party’s conference in…

Weighted vests have become a trendy fitness accessory, spotted on celebrities and promoted on social media for purported benefits like weight loss and muscle gain. They’ve become particularly popular among older women, said Kristen Beavers, PhD, professor of gerontology and geriatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine—largely due to the belief that they can…