Doctors were told yesterday to be blunt with their overweight older patients to save taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds. They were accused of failing to be frank with obese patients whose medical conditions stem mainly from their weight. Instead of persuading their patients to lose weight, doctors are taking …...Read More

Almost one in three GCSE pupils could get top marks today following the exam U-turn fiasco. The proportion with a grade 7 or higher – the equivalent of an old A/A* – is set to rise by almost 30 per cent due to the switch to teacher assessments. This could …...Read More

Senator Kamala Harris has now accepted the Democratic nomination for vice-president in a speech that centred around two themes – the historic nature of her own candidacy and the coming election being a referendum on the presidency of Donald Trump. On the first front, as her autobiographical sketch ranged over …...Read More

The Union home ministry’s decision to withdraw more than 10,000 security personnel from Jammu and Kashmir is welcome. The troops had been deployed in the erstwhile state before August 5 last year, when the central government had nullified Article 370 of the Constitution that gave J&K special status. In all …...Read More

Gavin Williamson was warned the exams algorithm was 'doomed' and could see thousands of students receive the wrong results, a senior Department for Education source has revealed. The source said former director-general Sir Jon Coles wrote to Mr Williamson six weeks ago to reveal his concerns about the Ofqual algorithm, …...Read More

Facebook has come under fire recently for allowing medical misinformation to run rampant on its platform and a new report finds it may be worse than previously believed. Non-profit group Avaaz found 84 percent of posts with false claims and advice have gone unlabeled to warn users of the misleading …...Read More

It’s the last tolerated prejudice. But Femail’s had enough. It’s time we called out those day-to-day moments when we’re patronised for no longer being young... Will theatre ever return to the way it was? A stage actor friend who came for tea last week sadly thinks not. One thing he …...Read More

A coronavirus vaccine could be widely available to much of the American public as early as April of next year, Operation Warp Speed chief Dr Moncef Slaoui told Business Insider in an exclusive interview. His program aims to have a shot anytime between then and June, which Dr Slaoui believes …...Read More

It is already known to make children’s asthma symptoms worse. Now a study has found that air pollution may also cause youngsters to develop the condition in the first place. Scientists said children who grow up with high levels of dirty air – due to factors such as living next …...Read More

Women who give birth to a premature baby are around twice as likely to die young, a study has revealed. The greater risk of death is highest in the first decade after birth but it persists for up to 40 years, researchers found. The study, published in the British Medical …...Read More