More than two-thirds of adults (68.6 percent) reported viewing their test results before hearing from a provider. Those who immediately viewed results were more likely to be older and female, and have a higher income, multiple chronic health conditions, higher digital literacy, and greater use of health-related social media. 

People who use cannabis are developing psychosis years earlier than non-users, new research shows, prompting calls for greater health warnings about one of the nation’s most widely used substances.

A review led by researchers at the University of Nottingham has found that contamination from historical metal mining is widespread across former mining regions in the UK, particularly in Wales and the southwest and northwest of England.

Commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the review examined the available evidence on the risks to animal and human health from land contaminated by metals originating from historical metal mines and smelters. The findings have been published on Defra's website.

England and Wales have a long history of metal mining and processing dating back to the Bronze Age. While these industries were central to the country's development, they also left a lasting environmental legacy. Mining, ore processing and smelting have resulted in elevated concentrations of metals in soils, rivers and groundwater, with contamination extending many kilometres beyond former industrial sites.

A new breakthrough stem cell treatment for ARK (aniridia-related keratopathy) has seen patients’ vision improve for this previously untreatable rare genetic eye condition in a first-in-human clinical trial at Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College London (UCL), published in JAMA Ophthalmology.