Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water sources for 6 million people
The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.
Health
Maldives bans smoking for younger generations
Anyone born on or after 1 January 2007 will be banned from using, buying or selling tobacco products in the archipelago.
Private baby scan clinics ‘putting expectant mothers at risk’
Some high-street clinics are risking lives by letting untrained staff do baby scans, warn experts.
At 21, I was crushed by a stranger’s joke about going bald. Then the way I looked at myself changed
There are multiple ways for men to combat hair loss now, but should they have to?
Endometriosis patients call for national registry
Hayley Barlow-Ford says better data would have helped her make an "informed choice" about surgery.
Medics got me through cancer but they can’t help with my menopause
When Kat Denisi was diagnosed with breast cancer at 32 she was put into a medically induced menopause.
Traitors star is ‘grateful for abnormal anatomy’
A very rare condition led to an important diagnosis after years of pain for The Traitors star.
‘Getting financial help through my GP has improved my health’
How linked are financial worries and health? GPs in London are trialling a financial support scheme.
Thousands of poorest Scots to receive free weight-loss jabs in trial
Up to 5,000 people in Scotland will take the injections as part of a multi-million pound study being led by Glasgow University.
