Health News Digest
11th April 2025
(covering news from the 4th April 2025)
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Health News Digest
The Environment Act 2021 (Commencement No. 10) Regulations 2025
‘Toxic cocktail’: study finds almost 200 pesticides in European homes
Exposure to air pollution may harm brain health of older adults
Gas boilers now biggest source of air pollution in central London, study shows
Climate Adaptation Research and Innovation Framework
Climate change and globalisation raise risks from crop pests
The King's Fund responds to the latest monthly NHS performance data
King's Fund - GP contract 2025/26 explained: funding, incentives and the workforce
King's Fund - GP funding and contracts explained
King's Fund - Integrated care board cuts – what does it all mean?
Health Foundation - NHS stats highlight enduring pressures on A&E
CQC: Responding to challenge report and red flags tracker
Infected blood victims losing faith as inquiry hearings restart
BBC: The English neighbourhood that claims to hold the secret to fixing the NHS
Hospitals in England offered unlimited bonuses for taking patients off waiting lists
England’s ‘complex’ health and care system harming patients, report says
England’s NHS crews ‘watching patients die in back of ambulances’ due to A&E delays
Latest update on Clade Ib mpox
UKHSA launches campaign to tackle misconceptions on antibiotics
Pertussis epidemiology in England 2024 and 2025
Measles epidemiology 2023 to 2025
Mpox clade Ib and clade IIb outbreak: epidemiological overview
National norovirus and rotavirus surveillance reports: 2024 to 2025 season
MRSA, MSSA, Gram-negative bacteraemia and CDI: quarterly report
Salmonella: national laboratory and outbreak data
Notifiable diseases: last 52 weeks
Notifiable diseases: weekly reports for 2025
Campylobacter infection: annual data
Measles, mumps and rubella: lab-confirmed cases in England 2024
Wonder drug or waste of money? The truth about fish oil supplements
How dentists could help tackle obesity in children
The month you were born may shape your body fat, study finds
Taking common sweetener instead of sugar could make you three times hungrier
Eating only during daytime could help protect shift workers heart health – study
Pertussis epidemiology in England 2024 and 2025
Measles epidemiology 2023 to 2025
Mpox clade Ib and clade IIb outbreak: epidemiological overview
King's Fund: Ten actions the government can take to improve children’s health
Saliva test may turn tide on prostate cancer, claim scientists
BBC: Why men are so unhealthy - and what can be done
‘Toxic cocktail’: study finds almost 200 pesticides in European homes
Simple £5 blood test could help prevent thousands of heart attacks, study says
Exposure to air pollution may harm brain health of older adults
GP in-hours: weekly bulletins for 2025
Emergency department: weekly bulletins for 2025
Syndromic surveillance: weekly summaries for 2025
Weekly all-cause mortality surveillance: 2024 to 2025
GP out-of-hours syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins for 2025
Remote health advice: weekly bulletins for 2025
National ambulance syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins 2025
Abortion statistics for England and Wales: 2022
Thousands of people a year could benefit from new twice-a-day tablet for advanced breast cancer
NICE: Updated guidelines for babies and children with non-serious pneumonia
One in four women in England have serious reproductive health issue, survey finds
Women should avoid all alcohol to reduce risk of breast cancer, charity says
Major endometriosis study reveals impact of gluten, coffee, dairy and alcohol
UK needs to invest in healthy beginnings, RCM tells UK governments
New research on common breast cancer that is resistant to hormone therapies
Study shows how new antibody therapy works against ovarian cancer
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