Video of fetus in disembodied womb required viewing for students in two states, as classroom becomes latest front in post-Roe abortion warsAwash in soft, peach-colored light, the infant yawns, sticks her thumb in her mouth and flutters her eyes at the camera. As the camera pulls away from her, an umbilical cord and the fleshy tunnel surrounding the...

Mel Stride, work and pensions secretary, says possibility of prosecution will need to be ‘carefully looked at’ as Commons statement due on compensationA cabinet minister has said Ken Clarke has questions to answer after campaigners said he should lose his peerage over his role in the infected blood scandal.Clarke, who was a health minister and health...

I was brought up to think sick people must do dietary penance. Then I tasted the delicious tikka masalas of a London hospitalI was born into a family with little love for food, and therefore scarcely Italian: I grew up with salads and overcooked pasta and two parents who looked at eating as nothing more than a necessary compromise to survive. Only as...

England’s chief medical officer says 19th-century wastewater system ended cholera outbreaks and calls for similar focus nowPublic health must be central to future investment in a new wastewater system to protect people from waterborne diseases, the chief medical officer for England, Prof Chris Whitty, has said.Reducing people’s risk of coming into contact...

Exclusive: 96% of trusts surveyed say health worse in local area, with more than half of those saying decline significantAlmost every NHS trust across England surveyed has seen health worsen in their area as a result of poverty and the cost of living crisis, research has found.The survey, conducted between February and March 2024 by NHS Providers, spoke...

Delays at AJM Healthcare mean Rosy Bremer, 52, has spent hundreds on private hireNHS’s leading wheelchair provider told to improveWhen Rosy Bremer, 52, from Portsmouth, applied for a wheelchair from the NHS she did not expect it to take almost a year to arrive. She has spent hundreds since then hiring a private vehicle while she waits, despite having...