Wellbeing garden opens in Yarm to combat isolation

Lyndsey TelfordBBC News NI BBC Nicola Hutton contacted Billy Cullen, who was in need of a kidney transplant, following an appeal for a donor A Belfast woman who “strung along” a seriously ill man with lies that she would donate her kidney to him has been branded “callous” and “not human”. On Thursday, Nicola Hutton,…

James Gallagher,Health and science correspondentand Catherine Snowdon,Health reporter Getty Some men are having vast numbers of children through sperm donation. This week the BBC reported on a man whose sperm contained a genetic mutation that dramatically raises the risk of cancer for some of his offspring. One of the most striking aspects of the investigation…

Speaking at the Medical Journalists’ Association annual lecture, Sir Chris said he was worried about obesity as there is an “optimal weight” for healthy living, with larger waistlines increasing the risk of cancers, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and infections.

A Department for Health and Social Care spokesperson said doctors had been offered a “generous deal”, which coincided with the government accepting the recommendations of the independent pay review body that all doctors, including resident doctors, previously known as junior doctors, should get a 3.5% pay rise from this month.