Healthcare provision
Article produced in association with Jeen Health A new national register will keep watch over people known to carry cancer genes. The catch: it can only protect those the system has already found - and a whole generation of older adults was never tested at all. A world-first register - with a blind spot In [...]
Air pollution is slowing the lung growth of children in the UK, new research has revealed. Researchers tracked the lung function of more than 5,000 people who were born in and around Bristol in the 1990s. Their health was assessed from birth onwards and their lungs were tested at ages eight, 15 and 24, when [...]
Exercise should be central to NHS support for older people and treated as vital as medication, MPs have said. Boosting older people's resilience to illness, frailty and falls through physical activity would be key to keeping the country's ageing population healthy and living independently for longer, MPs said. They said the change would be fundamental [...]
The NHS artificial pancreas rollout has narrowed inequalities in access to diabetes treatment, early figures suggest. People from deprived and minority ethnic backgrounds have had better access to the device than with previous diabetes technologies, according to early data from the programme. Helen Kirrane, head of policy and campaigns at Diabetes UK, said the device [...]
Novo Nordisk is set to launch oral Ozempic in the US for adults with type 2 diabetes, with the pill due to be distributed through more than 70,000 pharmacies. The drug, approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), offers adults with type 2 diabetes an option to manage blood sugar and cardiovascular risk alongside [...]
The UK’s over-85 population is set to double over the next 25 years, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show. There were 1.75 million people aged 85 and over in mid-2024, accounting for 2.5 per cent of the population, a figure expected to rise to 3.6 million, or 4.9 per cent, by [...]
A new obesity tool could help the NHS decide who gets weight-loss drugs by estimating who is most at risk of obesity-related disease. Recent data suggests about two-thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese, a situation that has caused concern among health experts. Researchers have now developed a tool that they say offers [...]
UK cancer diagnoses have hit a record high, with one person diagnosed every 80 seconds as a growing and ageing population drives cases higher. Cancer Research UK found more than 403,000 people are diagnosed with the disease each year. People are more likely to develop cancer as they get older. Michelle Mitchell, the charity’s chief [...]
UK healthy life expectancy has fallen over the past decade, leaving Britain behind most comparable rich countries, a study suggests. Healthy life expectancy is the amount of time someone spends free of illness or disability. The sharp decline in Britain’s healthy life expectancy contrasts with the recent rise seen in most other rich countries. The [...]
Article produced in association with Jeen Health On 24 January 2026, NHS England launched the NHS National Inherited Cancer Predisposition Register - a programme that will eventually cover around 120 cancer susceptibility genes. For adults over 50, this matters more than it first appears. Cancer risk accelerates with age. Diagnoses in later life - breast, [...]
