Entries by BBC News

Vapers overtake smokers for first time in Britain

Some 5.4 million adults use vapes daily or occasionally compared with 4.9 million using cigarettes, figures show.

Calls for legal right to paid leave for IVF treatment

Campaigners say IVF treatment should be less stigmatised in the workplace and come with legal entitlements to time off

Calls for legal right to paid leave for IVF treatment

Campaigners say IVF treatment should be less stigmatised in the workplace and come with legal entitlements to time off

Maldives bans smoking for younger generations

Anyone born on or after 1 January 2007 will be banned from using, buying or selling tobacco products in the archipelago.

Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water sources for 6 million people

The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.

Private baby scan clinics ‘putting expectant mothers at risk’

Some high-street clinics are risking lives by letting untrained staff do baby scans, warn experts.

Traitors star is ‘grateful for abnormal anatomy’

A very rare condition led to an important diagnosis after years of pain for The Traitors star.

Thousands of poorest Scots to receive free weight-loss jabs in trial

Up to 5,000 people in Scotland will take the injections as part of a multi-million pound study being led by Glasgow University.

At 21, I was crushed by a stranger’s joke about going bald. Then the way I looked at myself changed

There are multiple ways for men to combat hair loss now, but should they have to?

Medics got me through cancer but they can’t help with my menopause

When Kat Denisi was diagnosed with breast cancer at 32 she was put into a medically induced menopause.