Covid cases rising with new variants ‘Nimbus’ and ‘Stratus’

Covid cases rising with new variants ‘Nimbus’ and ‘Stratus’

Michelle RobertsDigital health editor Getty Images If you feel unwell with a bad throat and a temperature you may well have caught one of the new strains of Covid circulating this autumn. XFG, called Stratus by some, and NB.1.8.1, known as Nimbus, are now the most common variants being passed around in the UK, according … Read more

Why are measles cases rising in the UK and who can get the MMR vaccine?

Why are measles cases rising in the UK and who can get the MMR vaccine?

Getty Images A young child has died at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Hospital after contracting measles, raising concerns about the spread of the disease. Cases have been rising in the UK and around the world, with more than 500 reported since January in England alone. The increase is being blamed on the poor uptake of the … Read more

Why are measles cases rising in the UK and who can get the MMR vaccine?

Why are measles cases rising in the UK and who can get the MMR vaccine?

Getty Images A young child has died at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Hospital after contracting measles, raising concerns about the spread of the disease. Cases have been rising in the UK and around the world, with more than 500 reported since January in England alone. The increase is being blamed on the poor uptake of the … Read more

Odisha heightens coastal and strategic security amid rising tensions

Odisha heightens coastal and strategic security amid rising tensions

Chief Minister of Odisha Mohan Charan Majhi. | Photo Credit: Biswaranjan Rout In view of the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, the Odisha government on Friday (May 9, 2025) intensified security across key defence installations and its extensive coastline, citing potential external threats. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi stated that credible intelligence inputs had … Read more

Kerala Assembly: CM Pinarayi Vijayan agrees to adjournment debate on rising cases of violence among youth and drug abuse

Kerala Assembly: CM Pinarayi Vijayan agrees to adjournment debate on rising cases of violence among youth and drug abuse

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday agreed to an adjournment debate in the Assembly on the rising tide of juvenile delinquency, youth violence and increasing synthetic drug abuse in the State.  Replying to a Rule 50 motion moved by senior Congress legislator and former … Read more

Rising from the ashes: inside Bihar school run from cremation ground

Rising from the ashes: inside Bihar school run from cremation ground

A class under way on the premises of Mukti Dham, a crematorium at the Sikandarpur locality in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district.  | Photo Credit: Amit Bhelari A 31-year-old teacher, Sumit Kumar, has been educating over 100 slum children at a cremation ground in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, since 2017. Mr. Kumar’s initiative, Appan Pathshala, has transformed the lives … Read more

Bowel-cancer rates rising among younger people

Bowel-cancer rates rising among younger people

Rates of bowel cancer are rising among younger adults, with no clear reason why, experts are warning. Although the disease still affects older people far more often, the increase in many countries among the under-50s is concerning, Cancer Research UK says. England is one the countries with the biggest rise, averaging a 3.6% increase per … Read more

Rising NHS physician associate use questioned after Oldham death

Rising NHS physician associate use questioned after Oldham death

BBC/Brijesh Patel Roy Pollitt thought his late wife was being treated by a doctor rather than a physician associate A man whose wife died after a drain was mistakenly left in her abdomen for 21 hours has condemned the increased use of physician associates (PAs) within the National Health Service. Susan Pollitt’s inquest concluded her … Read more