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Elen HughesNPCC emphasised the legislation was complex and varied across the UK and only in cases where someone had told the police there was a suspicion of a crime would there be an investigation.It added police officers were encouraged...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tt-yLnZ34sCockatoos in Sydney, Australia, have learned to use public water fountains...

After years of largely predictable norovirus waves, the emergence of a new strain might have disrupted the seasonal pattern of outbreaks from this notorious stomach bug, suggests a new report by the Centers for Disease...

Dominic HughesHealth CorrespondentAnnabel RackhamHealth ReporterGetty ImagesNew cases of the sexually transmitted infection syphilis have risen again in England, continuing a trend dating back to the early 2000s.While the overall number of people diagnosed with gonorrhoea has fallen, there has...

Marie-Louise Connolly, Denise O'Connor and David HunterBBC SpotlightBBCConsultant perinatal psychiatrist, Dr Jo Black, who is originally from Cookstown, was instrumental in setting up a mother and baby unit in Devon.An eight-bed unit, the layout and decor of Jasmine Lodge...

In the United States, one in three people face memory loss or dementia.In life, you never know what cards you'll be dealt. Linde Jacobs lost her mother in 2022, which makes being a mother to...

Every year, thousands of students take courses that teach them how to deploy artificial intelligence models that...

An exercise programme for colon cancer patients can cut the risk of dying by a third, a major international trial shows.The researchers said it was "not a large amount" of exercise and any type of workout from swimming to...

Getty ImagesPharmacists have warned that "one of the worst" examples of medicine shortages is affecting cancer patients.Creon, a pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (Pert), helps digestion and is required by patients with pancreatic cancer, cystic fibrosis, and chronic pancreatitis. It...