The world’s largest study on the safety of using mobile phones has been launched by researchers in London. The project will recruit 250,000 phone users across five different European countries including the UK. It will last between 20 and 30 years and aims to provide definitive answers...

Nominations have opened for Scotland’s first elected health boards, with 16 and 17-year-olds able to cast their vote for the first time. NHS Fife and NHS Dumfries and Galloway will be the first to hold elections, as part of a £2.86m pilot scheme. Elected health boards were...

The UK Health Protection Agency (HPA) has said that the cloud of ash from Iceland’s recent volcanic eruption is not a significant public health risk. The plume of volcanic ash has grounded flights across the UK, but the HPA says that it is "trapped" in the atmosphere at high...

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Local health chiefs are too passive and are failing to keep hospitals in England in check, MPs say. The bosses of primary care trusts (PCTs) are responsible for 80% of the £100bn NHS budget. Among its criticisms, the Commons health committee said they did not do enough to make sure...