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PREVENTION

MPs call for Gambling Act review

By Lee Peart 08 May 2025

The Health and Social Care Committee has urged the Government to tackle gambling-related harms.

NICE

NICE updates guidance to help cut falls and related hospital admissions

By Liz Wells 02 May 2025

Personalised assessments that consider factors, including the hazards in a person’s home and their previous medical history, will help reduce falls in older and at-risk people, according to updated...

HEALTH INEQUALITIES

Inquiry to examine how digital access shapes health outcomes

By Liz Wells 02 May 2025

The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) is to lead a new inquiry to examine how digital exclusion is shaping health outcomes, and what must change to ensure digital transformation in healthcare does not...

NICE

NICE approves use of endometriosis pill

By Liz Wells 01 May 2025

A new daily pill for endometriosis has been approved for use on the NHS, which could help over a thousand women in England every year manage the symptoms of the condition.

MHRA

Arrests made in MHRA's biggest crackdown on organised medicines trafficking

By Liz Wells 29 April 2025

Twelve suspects have been arrested in dawn raids in the largest criminal investigation into organised medicines trafficking in the history of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency...

PREVENTATIVE

Ultra-processed foods linked with early death

By Lee Peart 29 April 2025

High consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) has been linked with early deaths in new research.

KNIFE CRIME

Government unveils measures to protect children from knife content

By Liz Wells 25 April 2025

The government is to introduce tougher sanctions to hold tech platforms to account for failing to protect children from harmful knife crime content.

NATIONAL HOUSING FEDERATION

Organisations urge government to act on supported housing crisis

By Liz Wells 25 April 2025

More than 150 cross-sector organisations, public bodies and charities have written to the Prime Minister and Chancellor calling for urgent action to save the country’s supported housing sector, whi...

WES STREETING

Government seeks to tackle men's life expectancy gap

By Lee Peart 24 April 2025

A 12-weeek call for evidence has been launched by the Government in a bid to tackle the life expectancy gap for men.

TECHNOLOGY

Breakthrough in bowel cancer research to speed up diagnosis

By Liz Wells 23 April 2025

The Government says patients could soon benefit from technology to diagnose bowel cancer earlier, reducing the need for invasive colonoscopies and biopsies, and potentially saving valuable time and...