Summarize this content to 1000 words A ban on junk food adverts being shown on TV before 21:00 will come into force on 1 October 2025, the government has confirmed. Labour said the watershed on junk food advertising would be enforced alongside a total ban on paid-for online adverts, both aimed at tackling childhood obesity.The Conservatives had previously committed to the ban in 2021 when Boris Johnson was prime minister,
Summarize this content to 1000 words Getty ImagesThe first “citizens’ jury” on assisted dying in England has backed a change in the law to allow people who are terminally ill to end their life.A jury of 28 people concluded it should be an option for those judged to have capacity to make their own decisions.While it has no legal powers, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which set up the jury,
Summarize this content to 1000 words Getty Images"Ballooning" NHS waiting times and delays getting vital treatment in A&E and cancer care is harming health and costing lives, according to a critical government-commissioned report on the service in England.People have "every right to be angry," Sir Keir Starmer will warn on Thursday, adding the health service must "reform or die".Health Secretary Wes Streeting vowed to "turn the NHS around" after the
Summarize this content to 1000 words Glody MurhabaziMore and more babies with mpox are being admitted to Lwiro community hospitalMedical staff on the front line of the battle against mpox in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have told the BBC they are desperate for vaccines to arrive so they can stem the rate of new infections.At a treatment centre in South Kivu province that the BBC visited in the epicentre
Summarize this content to 1000 words Gareth WilliamsRhiannon Williams had been receiving counselling for depression and anxiety.A father has said his 24-year-old daughter’s suicide hit him like a "depth charge" which "shred things in ways that are difficult to describe".One year on from Rhiannon’s death, Gareth Williams wants other parents to know how "seriously dangerous" poor mental health can be.The latest figures show the suicide rate in Wales in 2023
Summarize this content to 1000 words BBCMandi Masters, a community midwife, was hospitalised with Covid in the pandemic.The public inquiry into the pandemic will start 10 weeks of hearings on Monday looking at the impact on patients, healthcare workers and the wider NHS. Covid patients have been admitted to hospital more than a million times in the UK since the virus emerged in 2020, while countless others have had care
Summarize this content to 1000 words Getty ImagesThe government’s plan to tackle the hospital backlog in England will fail without a fundamental reform in how services work, health leaders say.Labour aims to increase the number of appointments and operations done each week by 40,000, to help hit the 18-week waiting time target.But NHS Confederation research found that would only deliver about 15% of the extra capacity needed to get back
Summarize this content to 1000 words Getty ImagesScientists have studied more than 2,000 samples of poo from babies in the UK to get a clearer idea of which types of bacteria first colonise a newborn's gut.Researchers say they were surprised to find baby poo fell into three distinct microbiological profiles, with different "pioneer bacteria" being abundant in each.One in particular, called B. breve, could help babies make the most of
Summarize this content to 1000 words Getty ImagesMen taking sodium valproate are being warned to use contraception while on the medicine, because of a "potential small increased risk" of autism and other neurodevelopmental problems for any children conceived. They should continue to do so - and cannot donate sperm - until three months after they have stopped taking the drug.Sodium valproate, prescribed under brand names including Epilim, Belvo, Convulex and
Summarize this content to 1000 words BBCSafia Ahmadei has always maintained her innocenceA student nurse cleared of plotting to kidnap a baby from a neonatal ward said her experience of the justice system had left her "smashed".Safia Ahmadei was accused of "scouting" New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton for a baby she could pass off as her own.But following an 11-day trial a jury found her not guilty of attempted kidnap
