Alabama enacts fast-tracked law to protect IVF
Its passage comes less than a month after state fertility services paused when a court ruled that frozen embryos are children. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Health staff start court fight over long Covid
They say they are disabled after catching Covid at work, with no protection from employers. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

What is the new vaping tax and when will it start?
The government will introduce a new vaping tax on top of measures to stop children vaping. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Care workers felt neglected compared to NHS staff - inquiry
People working in care homes and social care felt neglected during Covid, the injury hears. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Astonishing early reluctance to call Covid civil emergency - inquiry
An expert says Welsh government felt Covid "wasn't a civil emergency" in early March 2020. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Hospital patient given 'corridor care' for 14 hours
A patient at a hospital experiencing "record admissions" says he had no access to water. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Health staff to start court fight over long Covid
They say they are disabled after catching Covid at work, with no protection from employers. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times
Researchers have written up the unusual case in a medical journal. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Unions back improved NHS senior doctor pay offer
Consultants in England to vote on new deal after rejecting previous offer by narrow margin. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Cautious backing for rise in physician associates
The doctors’ union is concerned about patient safety because of a new law regulating those roles. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

NHS trust admits failures over death of baby boy
A coroner hears hospital staff failed to give Zachary Taylor-Smith's mum antibiotics during labour. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Medical leaders back rise in physician associates
But the doctors’ union is concerned about patient safety because of a new law regulating those roles. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Consultants vote to strike in Wales
Doctors will walk out in April over "extreme pressures" and "unsafe staffing levels". (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Man hails 'quality of life' drug available on NHS
Ross Cunliffe says "the right thing has been done" in making daratumumab available on the NHS. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

'I was left lying in my own urine'
A 73-year-old man says he was denied pain relief and was left lying in a bed soaked with urine. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news