Martin Bagot

British Medical Association announces four-day doctors’ strike next month - immediately after first meeting today with new Health Secretary James Murray

Diabetes UK says Type 2 diabetes is on the increase in young women because pregnant women cannot produce enough insulin, leading to gestational diabetes which poses a higher risk of developing Type 2

UK National Screening Committee rejects call from Olympic legend Sir Chris Hoy to offer PSA test to all men at higher risk of prostate cancer

A study in the Lancet looked at whether a blood test could indicate the most common form of dementia and diagnose people decades before symptoms are clear enough to be identified by medics

Major NHS reform will create the single patient record so people don’t have to ‘repeat their stories’ to staff at every GP and hospital appointment - the £10billion digitisation of the NHS has been dubbed a “game changer”

World Cup winner Lewis Moody will do a 500-mile charity cycle for motor neurone disease (MND), along with the wife and son of rugby icon Doddie Weir, who died from the condition

As it stands, hospitals cannot access the full medical history of a patient

Study in British Journal of Sports Medicine shows importance of strength training such as dumbbell work, squats and lunges

Read this exciting story from Scottish Daily Express June 03, 2026 issue. DOING weight training each week helps us live longer, research suggests.

Regulators warn of skin products scraped from the skin of a live giant monkey frog and traditionally used in shamanic rituals which has been linked to deaths