NHS staff across England have been placed on high alert for a potential outbreak of the Ebola virus, with hospitals, GP surgeries and clinics instructed to check stocks of personal…
Author: Sophie Hargreaves
Sophie Hargreaves
Health Correspondent
Sophie Hargreaves covers medical research, new treatments, disease outbreaks and prevention for Health News Daily. She holds a Master's degree in Health Sciences from the University of Leeds and has spent several years translating complex medical science into clear, accessible reporting for a general audience. Sophie focuses on the latest clinical trials, NICE and MHRA approvals, vaccination programmes and emerging health threats, always with an eye on what these developments mean for people in the UK.
· MSc Health Sciences (University of Leeds), science communication volunteer, medical research literacy
· Clinical trials and drug approvals (NICE, MHRA), cancer screening programmes, vaccination and outbreak response, women's health (endometriosis, PCOS, menopause), weight management treatments, AI in diagnostics
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The NHS has spent more than £3 million over the past five years removing foreign objects from patients’ rectums, new figures reveal. Data obtained by Erobella under a Freedom of…
Three scientific papers that questioned vaccine safety and were used by the Trump administration to justify controversial changes to US vaccine policy have been retracted, removed or placed under investigation…
Philanthropist Melinda French Gates has pledged an additional $215 million to expand her global work on women’s health, taking her total contributions in the field to more than $600 million…
Three vaccine developers have been awarded $60m (£45m) in emergency funding as scientists race to contain the largest documented outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, which is spreading across…
Genital herpes cases bucked the wider downward trend in sexually transmitted infections last year, with the UK Health Security Agency reporting a three per cent rise in first-time diagnoses to…
A new ovarian cancer drug offers hope to hundreds of women in England whose disease has stopped responding to chemotherapy, after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice)…
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may have begun as early as January, giving the virus a substantial head start before it was even identified, the…
Two British doctors will testify before a powerful US Senate subcommittee today, bringing their claims of serious harms linked to Covid-19 vaccines — including potential connections to cancer — to…