Munaza RafiqDisability producer Family handout Wren waited more than a year to receive her NHS manual wheelchair, which she has nearly grown out of More than a thousand disabled children across the UK are waiting for wheelchairs and mobility equipment that could transform their lives, Whizz Kidz say. The charity, which helps wheelchair users up…
Ami Clarke, 28, from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, began experiencing endometriosis symptoms at 13 but was not diagnosed until a decade later. A new report from Endometriosis UK revealed the average wait for a diagnosis for the condition was now nine years and four months. It also found that 39% of respondents had to visit their…
Emer Moreau Business reporter, BBC News Syreeta Sandhu Syreeta Sandhu has spent £15,000 on IVF IVF patients are being warned over unregulated “concierge clinics” after a popular one went bust leaving scores of clients without treatment or refunds. As the number of privately funded IVF cycles has risen, online concierge companies have emerged, acting as…
PA Media Wes Streeting has urged people to listen to UK doctors and scientists, not Donald Trump, when it comes to paracetamol use Pregnant women should ignore Donald Trump’s claims that taking paracetamol could lead to their child having autism, the UK’s health secretary has said. “I trust doctors over President Trump,” Wes Streeting told…
Getty Images mRNA vaccines were heralded as a medical marvel that saved lives during the Covid pandemic, but now the US is pulling back from researching them. US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has cancelled 22 projects – worth $500m (£376m) in funding – for tackling infections such as Covid and flu. So does…
