Family handout Joel was five when he contracted flu and had to spend three weeks in intensive care at Bristol Children’s Hospital Jen SmithSouth West health correspondent The parents of a boy who became so unwell with flu he spent three weeks in intensive care are urging other families to get their children vaccinated against […]

A football club in the Isle of Lewis has started turning an overgrown area into a new training pitch with funding from NHS Western Isles. Carloway Football Club said the green space, next to its main pitch, would be used for team exercises and community activities. The health board said £22,000 in capital grant funding

Nathan BriantSouth of England Annette Bevan Annette Bevan wants other mums to feel that they can play rugby after having a child The co-founder of a rugby club for women who have had children said the sport is ideal for new mums who want to stay active. Annette Bevan, a mum-of-two who currently plays for

Joanne WrittleBBC Midlands Today Health Correspondent, Birmingham BBC Tom Blyth, a consultant at Heartlands Hospital, said patients sometimes carry knives while in hospital Knife amnesty bins are being installed outside hospitals in Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield after weapons were found by health workers in toilets, on a footpath and even just before a patient’s MRI

Available for 32 days In Can I Believe My Eyes? writer and presenter Chris Tally Evans takes a deep dive into the fascinating world of Charles Bonnet Syndrome. Through the lens of his own visual impairment Chris talks to fellow visually impaired people who have experienced this rare and sometimes misunderstood phenomenon. Enter a world

Liv McMahonTechnology reporter Getty Images OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature in the US which can analyse people’s medical records to give them better answers, but campaigners warn it raises privacy concerns. The firm wants people to share their medical records along with data from apps like MyFitnessPal, which will be analysed to give

One hundred and eighty years after the first fax machines started grinding out messages, three NHS trusts in England are still using the technology. Health Secretary Wes Streeting had made it his personal mission to banish the fax, pledging to Radio 5 Live in October 2024 that he would phase them out of the health

Christmas and New Year gatherings may have caused a bounce back in flu and other winter viruses, NHS leaders say. Figures show that the average number of patients in hospital beds in England with flu last week hit 2,924 – a rise of 9% on the previous week. This comes after two weeks of decreasing

Laura Maguire Laura Maguire said she often spends days in bed due to pain Marie-Louise ConnollyHealth correspondent, BBC News NI A woman waiting for endometriosis treatment has said the pain she experiences is like having barbed wire in her body. Laura Maguire, who is 25 and from Londonderry, has been put in an early medicated

Sue Davies,BBC Radio Wiltshireand Kirsten Robertson,Wiltshire Cathy Read Cathy Read has survived two spontaneous coronary artery dissections (SCAD) A woman is planning to walk 115km to raise awareness of a rare condition which caused her to have two heart attacks. Cathy Read from Chippenham in Wiltshire has survived two spontaneous coronary artery dissections (SCAD). The