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#theguardian.com. × People in England with severe dust mite allergy to be offered daily pill on NHS. Tablet will particularly benefit people who do not respond enough to steroid nasal sprays and antihistamines

#theguardian.com. × More than half of Sydney health district’s staff psychiatrists have resigned, leaked documents show. Documents also show plans to maintain services without bed closures and rely on ‘bolstered’ allied healthcare staff and nurses

#theguardian.com. × Almost one in eight Britons now has private medical insurance, say healthcare analysts. Number of people covered by a private medical insurance policy hit a record high of 4.68 million at the end of 2023

#theguardian.com. × RFK Jr faces questions about U-turn on abortion in US Senate hearing. Health secretary nominee once identified as ‘pro-choice’ but said he agrees with Trump ‘every abortion is a tragedy’

#theguardian.com. × Trump’s Medicaid disruption threatens vital resource for millions of Americans. A brief shutdown of the federal health insurance program struck fear into patients – and concern about what’s to come

#theguardian.com. × NHS England chief under fire again as MPs ‘exasperated’ by responses. Health committee criticises Amanda Pritchard’s evidence after scathing report from another Commons committee

#theguardian.com. × ‘Groundbreaking’: scientists develop patch that can repair damaged hearts. Cells taken from blood and ‘reprogrammed’ into heart muscle cells may help patients with heart failure

#theguardian.com. × Labor under growing pressure on dental cover, the ‘missing element of Medicare’. Albanese government backbenchers among those pushing to add dental to Medicare despite the health minister saying it’s not a priority

#theguardian.com. × Confirmation hearings begin for RFK Jr’s nomination to be US health secretary. Environmental lawyer turned anti-vaccine activist has sparked fierce resistance from scientific community

#theguardian.com. × ‘She’s at peace and so am I’: why members of Australian religious sect the Saints deliberately denied Elizabeth Struhs lifesaving insulin. Police interviews shown during the extraordinary trial for the manslaughter of the eight-year-old Queensland child reveal the beliefs behind the inaction of her parents and others

#theguardian.com. × Queensland must listen to doctors on puberty blockers ahead of its own ‘ideological views’, expert says. Comments come after health minister announced on Tuesday a temporary ban on new child patients accessing transgender hormone therapies

#theguardian.com. × ‘Complacent’ health chiefs in England lack drive to transform NHS, say MPs. Public accounts committee finds DHSC and NHS England leaders appear short of the energy and urgency needed

#theguardian.com. × Medicaid portals reportedly down after Trump’s federal funding freeze. Lawmakers and state officials say portals inaccessible for one of largest health insurance programs in US

#theguardian.com. × Kansas officials say tuberculosis outbreak is largest on record in US history. Department of health reports ‘rapid number of cases in a short amount of time’ and says that there could be more

#theguardian.com. × Produce in home gardens near PFAS plant in US contain dangerous levels of chemicals. Research provides more evidence that food is a potentially overlooked exposure route to toxic ‘forever chemicals’

#theguardian.com. × Queensland halts prescription of puberty blockers and hormones for children with gender dysphoria. Pause comes as Crisafulli government launches independent review after reports gender-affirming hormones were given without proper consultation

#theguardian.com. × Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon to get psychiatric testing amid double murder charge. Defence team of 29-year-old yet to review ‘extraordinary volume’ of evidence compiled by prosecutors

#theguardian.com. × Prostate cancer becomes most common cancer diagnosis in England. There were 55,033 diagnoses of prostate cancer in England in 2023 compared with 47,526 diagnoses of breast cancer

#theguardian.com. × Coca-Cola recalls drinks in Europe over ‘higher levels’ of chemical chlorate. Cans and bottles containing the chemical, which can cause health issues, were distributed in Britain at the end of last year

#theguardian.com. × CDC health officials in US ordered to stop working with WHO immediately. Senior leaders at agency told to ‘await further guidance’ in stoppage that upends expectations of extended withdrawal

#theguardian.com. × Doctors say they’ve apprehensively taken on job of preventing patients’ medical debt. New toolkit helps doctors address patients’ financial needs – a role doctors say they feel thrust into amid worsening crisis

#theguardian.com. × Increase regulation of online sale of weight-loss jabs, pharmacists say. Current rules leave door open for medicines to be supplied without appropriate patient consultation, association says

#theguardian.com. × ‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctors. Firms including United Healthcare have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say

#theguardian.com. × Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk rebuked by watchdog over failure to disclose payments to UK health groups. Danish drug giant found to have failed to accurately report spending even after admitting to errors

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