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Follow the latest developments in the medical world. Stay informed on the continuing coronavirus pandemic, what’s happening within the NHS and the newest breakthroughs across the industry. Also read up on medical advice from our editorial team, and discover anecdotal accounts from the field, submitted by healthcare professionals and our readers.

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Cases have been recorded in three of South Africa’s nine provinces

Cholera outbreak in South Africa kills 15 people

At least 15 people have died in an outbreak of cholera outside the South African capital Pretoria, where residents...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.00pm, The Times

Eighty per cent of adults back laws to prevent the advertising of unhealthy food to children on TV and online

Voters have big appetite for laws curbing junk food adverts

Voters overwhelmingly support the imposition of tougher curbs on junk food to tackle obesity, research shows.

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Eleanor Hayward

, Health Correspondent

The most effective activity is the one that becomes a habit

The rise of the super-fit fifties (and how to be one)

Two decades ago, the collective fitness levels of those over 50 might best be described as woeful. Fast-forward to...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

The Labour leader warned that “the NHS is unsustainable unless we make serious, deep, long-term changes”

Starmer pledges NHS funding boost and wide-ranging reforms

Sir Keir Starmer has promised to pump more money into the NHS while introducing significant reforms to the service

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Whitehall Editor

NHS junior doctors held 96-hour walkout last month in a dispute over pay

Junior doctors vow to ‘strike throughout the summer’

Junior doctors have vowed to “strike throughout the summer” after upping their pay demand to 49 per cent during...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Eleanor Hayward

, Health Correspondent

Fred Banning became a spearhead for change following his cancer diagnosis in February 2020

Campaigner who won Covid jab priority for terminally ill dies at 40

A marketing executive who successfully campaigned for the terminally ill to be given priority access to Covid...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Aberdeen was up six points to 31 in the table of 50 UK cities and the London boroughs

Health is key factor as Scottish cities slip in PwC’s Good Growth index

Citizens’ poor health and the slow rate of new business creation are holding back Scotland’s biggest cities while...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Scottish Business Editor

Didier Raoult has proposed an anti-malaria drug for treating coronavirus

Daughter denounces ‘anti-vaccine’ professor

The doctor behind a discredited anti-coronavirus treatment given to Donald Trump has been described as “a...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Mindfulness is about clear-sighted awareness, says Danny Penman, a meditation teacher and author

Think this is mindfulness? You’ve got it wrong

The Instagram version of mindfulness has us fooled. We think it’s all yoga poses on white beaches. In fact it is...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

“No steps is an essential of life,” says Judy Graham

‘I had to sell my flat to pay for my carers’

The three dreaded Ds – death, divorce and debt – are common reasons to sell a property. But there’s another D...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Letters page imagery for The Times Website. Pictured are a variety of archive letters to the editor. 4/10/18 ý Mikael Buck for The Times

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Braverman and her speed awareness course

Sir, Whether claims that Suella Braverman broke the ministerial code are a smear or a “mega-distraction” is not...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

WRITE TO LETTERS@THETIMES.CO.UK

Cropped shot of a senior woman holding hands with a nurse

LEADING ARTICLE

Unhealthy Plans

For what all sides agree is one of the greatest challenges facing the country, what is most dispiriting is the lack...

Monday May 22 2023, 9.00pm, The Times

Times Leading Articles

As many as one in three people are thought to suffer from chronic pain in the UK

Brain signals linked to chronic pain identified for the first time

Scientists have directly identified some of the brain signals involved in chronic pain for the first time, in a...

Monday May 22 2023, 5.05pm, The Times

, Science Editor

Martin Amis and the early signs and symptoms of oesophageal cancer

I must admit to never having read a Martin Amis novel, but his death last week has prompted me to write about a...

Monday May 22 2023, 5.00pm, The Times

The presenter, 48, said she had suffered painful symptoms since she was a teenager

Womb condition has caused me a lifetime of pain, says BBC host

The BBC presenter

has revealed she is often left screaming in agony due to a debilitating womb...

Monday May 22 2023, 4.45pm, The Times

Eleanor Hayward

, Health Correspondent

Laura Nuttall, with her father Mark, mother Nicola and sister Gracie, graduated last summer, almost four years after being given just 12 months to live

Cancer campaigner who inspired Peter Kay dies of brain tumour, aged 23

A 23-year-old woman who raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity after being diagnosed with terminal cancer...

Monday May 22 2023, 2.05pm, The Times

Laurence Sleator

The Conservatives and Labour are relying on increased use of private hospitals to reduce NHS waiting times

NHS app to let patients book private healthcare

Patients will be encouraged to use the NHS app to choose treatment in private hospitals as the prime minister sets...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Whitehall Editor

Starmer says that Labour “will fix the NHS”, although details remain sparse

Starmer: I’ll meet all big NHS targets in my first term as PM

All big NHS targets will be reached in the first term of a Labour government, Sir Keir Starmer will promise today.

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Whitehall Editor

Susan Hart, 74, from Bath, disappeared on April 30

Grandmother found dead on Greek island

A grandmother who vanished on a Greek island during a family holiday three weeks ago has been found dead.

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Joshua Patterson completing the last of his 76 marathons in London last week

Joshua Patterson: why I ran 76 marathons in 76 days

Joshua Patterson was 13 when he first thought about killing himself. His parents had just got divorced and he felt...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Georgina Roberts