Health

Experts say colder weather and reduced activity can increase joint pain, and they report that gentle movement can stimulate joints and may ease discomfort.

Dr Amir Khan said clicking or 'crepitus' in knees is often not serious if it is not painful, and he reported that movement may help joint fluid and cushioning; NHS and Arthritis Research UK note osteoarthritis is a common, age‑related joint condition.

Itchy or uncomfortable skin on the feet, legs or ankles is reported as a common complication in people with diabetes, and health sources say prolonged high blood sugar and related issues can be linked to such symptoms.

Selected pharmacies in England are offering free NHS blood pressure checks to people aged over 40 who do not already have recent monitoring; readings for those registered with a GP are recorded in the GP health record.

A three-piece Charlotte Tilbury set includes a hydrating cleanser, a Glow Toner and a Magic Water Cream; shoppers report it helped hydrate dry and sensitive winter skin.

A global analysis estimates about 799 million adults meet clinical thresholds for prescription weight‑loss injections, based on surveys of more than 810,000 people across 99 countries. The World Health Organization is examining ways to broaden access while cost and supply remain barriers.

Doctors and nutrition experts told the reporter that oats, because of the soluble fibre beta‑glucan, are widely recommended to help reduce LDL ('bad') cholesterol; they also mentioned nuts, beans, lentils, oily fish and swapping saturated fats for unsaturated fats.

A psychologist clarified that 'mixed dementia' means a person has more than one form of dementia, and UK figures cited in the report put dementia prevalence at over 944,000 with about one in 10 people with dementia having mixed dementia.

Government data show small declines in some flu indicators, while hospitalizations and deaths remain elevated and a mostly new H3N2 variant differs from this season's vaccine.

British Army veteran Hari Budha Magar reached the 4,892-metre summit of Mount Vinson in Antarctica to complete the Seven Summits, becoming the first double above‑knee amputee to do so. He lost both legs in 2010 while serving with the Gurkha regiment and has used the challenge to raise disability awareness and funds for veterans' charities.

Today show contributor Jill Martin announced on Jan. 9 that she will have an urgent reconstructive procedure to repair skin damage from prior radiation; her doctors said the operation is preventative and that her cancer is not back.

A Florida nurse was arrested twice after her ex-partner allegedly used AI-generated texts to accuse her; prosecutors later dropped a bond violation and she was acquitted of the battery charge in December 2025.

The NHS reported hospital admissions for flu in England rose nine per cent in the week after Christmas, reversing a recent downward trend, and officials said Christmas and New Year parties caused a 'bounce back'.

Freedom of Information data shows private clinics prescribed 659,293 unlicensed cannabis products in 2024 and 88,214 in the first two months of 2025, often for conditions such as anxiety and depression.

A pupil is reported to have discharged an imitation firearm at Ravensfield Primary School during strike action; the school said no one was injured and Greater Manchester Police have been informed.

Public health data show 702 imported cases of typhoid and paratyphoid in the UK in 2024, an 8% increase from 2023. Reports note a transferable resistance gene, blaNDM-5, and prior outbreaks of extensively drug-resistant typhoid in South Asia.

The article reports the Simple app is offering 60% off its weight-loss programmes with the code REACH60, and it cites a user, Rebecca Littles, who said she lost 76 pounds using the platform.

TV doctor Punam Krishan disclosed a breast cancer diagnosis received five months ago and said she often cried while coping; she praised NHS care and described feeling healed and still 'navigating' life after treatment.

Amazon Pharmacy will offer Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy pill to customers with commercial insurance for $25 per month and to cash-pay customers starting at $149 per month, and the company said the pill will appear at Amazon Pharmacy kiosks in the coming weeks.

Aria Thorpe, aged nine, was reported to have died at her home on 15 December from a single chest wound; a 15-year-old has been charged and remanded ahead of a trial provisionally set for June.

A study in Cell Reports reports that suppressing a ventral striatum→ventral pallidum pathway in macaque monkeys reduced hesitation to begin tasks that might include unpleasant outcomes, without changing how rewards and punishments were weighed. The circuit is described as acting like a 'motivation brake' and researchers note possible relevance to motivation problems in conditions such as depression and schizophrenia.

Labour MP Peter Prinsley criticised more than a thousand House of Lords amendments to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill as delay tactics and urged Commons leaders to consider extending the parliamentary session to prevent the measure from falling.

A man previously convicted of throwing a six-year-old from the Tate Modern has been jailed for 16 weeks after assaulting two nurses at Broadmoor hospital; the sentence will run concurrently with his existing life term.

A time-series analysis of Australia from 1950–2018 reports that reductions in population-level alcohol consumption could substantially lower deaths from upper aerodigestive tract, colorectal, male liver and female breast cancers, particularly among older adults, with models accounting for tobacco use and health expenditure.

Andre Yarham, 24, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal early-onset dementia after scans showed frontal lobe atrophy, died on December 27; his family have donated his brain to research.

CDC data shows the H3N2 subclade K 'super flu' is circulating widely with rising test positivity and hospitalisations, and experts note red bell peppers contain higher vitamin C and antioxidants than other pepper colours.

Defra confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 at a commercial poultry site north of Langford, near Newark; birds at the site will be humanely culled and protection and surveillance zones have been imposed.

A comprehensive review of more than 450,000 participants finds the APOE gene’s E3 and E4 variants together may account for an estimated 72–93% of Alzheimer’s cases, and that about 45% of all dementia cases link to APOE.

Western donors' sharp retreat from aid funding is reported as undermining progress against major infectious threats, and health authorities recently declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai province over.

A December 2025 memorandum led to the removal of six vaccines from the US childhood schedule on 5 January 2026, while the MMR vaccine remains scheduled at 12 months; measles cases in the US have risen above 2,000 amid declining MMR coverage.