Thousands died because of this summer’s extreme hot weather – a product of the climate crisis. Anita Bazell, taken to hospital during June’s heatwave with a body temperature of 41.2C, was one of them

Bodies of two teenagers recovered by emergency workers following separate incidents in Kent and Oxford The number of water-related deaths during the UK’s recent heatwave has risen to 11 after the bodies of two teenage boys were recovered in Kent and Oxford. Emergency workers recovered the body of a 14-year-old boy from the River Thames near Donnington Bridge, Oxford, at about 5.30pm on Wednesday. Thames Valley police said the boy’s family had been informed and that his death was being treated as “unexplained but not suspicious”. Continue reading...

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Scottish doctor and academic Sir Kenneth Calman has died, his family have announced.

The global health community recognises climate change as a public health emergency due to its direct and indirect impacts on health and wellbeing. This study explores sociodemographic differences i...

Sepa has warned that 11 bodies of water in Scotland are reaching significant levels of water scarcity.

The global health community recognises climate change as a public health emergency due to its direct and indirect impacts on health and wellbeing. This study explores sociodemographic differences i...

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Background Climate change affects people’s mental health directly and indirectly. Climate anxiety, characterised by persistent worry and distress about environmental changes, is increasingly recognise...

Background Climate change affects people’s mental health directly and indirectly. Climate anxiety, characterised by persistent worry and distress about environmental changes, is increasingly recognise...

Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of clim...

Climate change is a global health emergency, with extreme heat events increasing morbidity, mortality, and hospitalisations, and exacerbating health a…

Climate change is a global health emergency, with extreme heat events increasing morbidity, mortality, and hospitalisations, and exacerbating health a…

Trump administration pulling references online ‘won’t make crisis’ stop affecting Americans’ lives, say experts

Modeled analyses of 854 European cities show that net temperature-related mortality will increase because of an increase in heat-related mortality exceeding future reductions in cold-related mortality...

It is thirty years since I didn’t go to Auschwitz. The memory of not going has never left me. In 1985, I was living in Kraków, just 40 miles on the slow stopping train from Oświęcim. I could …

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In this issue, Visram et al1 make a significant advancement in the controversy of screening of multiple myeloma (MM) by providing an initial answer to the