Study finds excessive screen use can lead to mental health concerns

Met Police Tracey Connelly, jailed in 2009 for causing or allowing the death of her toddler son Peter, has been freed on licence on two previous occasions The mother of Baby P was recalled to prison last year after she started a relationship with a man she met online without telling officials supervising her, a…

Amarjit Matharoo, whose daughter Asees was stillborn in January 2024, said it “has been a long, drawn-out, and emotionally draining process to get the assurances that this investigation will be handled with the appropriate methodology and care that it needs”.

Catherine Burns,Health correspondent, Vicki Loader,Health producerand Harriet Agerholm Getty Images Hundreds of GPs across England have told the BBC they think mental health problems are being over-diagnosed. One commonly-held view by family doctors, our research suggests, is that society tends to over-medicalise normal life stresses. But they’re also concerned about how hard it is to…

Three-year-old Oliver Chu has amazed doctors and his parents after he became the world’s first patient of a pioneering gene therapy to treat Hunter syndrome. Hunter syndrome – or MPSII – is a rare, inherited condition that causes progressive damage to the body and brain. The effects are sometimes described as a type of childhood…