Child health
Give weight-loss jabs to obese children, says top doctor
Health
Obese children should be offered weight-loss jabs to save them from a lifetime of problems, one of the world’s most senior doctors ...
Experiments on children using infected blood likened to actions of Nazi doctors
Health
“We know that they did clinical trials on us as children, as schoolboys, without either our knowledge or the consent of our ...
Why support for a British smartphone ban could go viral
World
More broadly, the Government plans to ask whether parental safety tools that already exist on phones and apps – which can be ...
I thought my daughter had a winter bug – within 12 hours she was fatally ill with sepsis
Health
Her bedroom stayed the same for months after she died – her school bag thrown on the floor where she’d left it. ...
Keir Starmer to place nanny state at heart of Labour’s child reforms
U.K.
Labour said the plans would be funded by the abolition of non-dom status. Pledges to increase the number of health visitors trained ...
Ultra-processed foods have become ‘normalised’ in children’s diets
Health
Ultra-processed foods (UPF) have become normalised in the diet of children, experts have warned in a Government-commissioned report. A report from City, ...
If sick toddlers can’t rely on the NHS, the system really is finished
Health
We are living in an age of wonder drugs. Donanemab, a drug for Alzheimer’s disease which is under review, has been hailed ...