Health

Published: 25 August 2025. The English Chronicle Desk A major health scare has struck the popular resort town of La Manga near Murcia, Spain, where more than one hundred tourists – including several children and a 15-month-old baby – have fallen ill with suspected salmonella poisoning at the four-star Izan Cavanna Hotel. The outbreak, which unfolded over the weekend, has left holidaymakers reeling, with dozens requiring hospital treatment and others...

Published: 22 August 2025. The English Chronicle Desk Baby food manufacturers in England have been given an 18-month window to enhance the nutritional quality of their products and improve labelling practices, following concerns over high sugar content and misleading marketing claims. The government’s new voluntary guidance calls for reduced sugar and salt levels in food for infants and toddlers, along with clearer labelling to prevent parents being misled into thinking...

Published: 22 August 2025. The English Chronicle Desk An experienced skydiver, Jade Damarell, 32, deliberately fell to her death from 15,500 feet the day after ending a relationship, an inquest in County Durham has concluded. The hearing revealed that Ms Damarell, a marketing manager and accomplished parachutist, did not deploy either her main or reserve parachute and had deliberately switched off an automatic activation device (AAD) before descending onto farmland...

Published: 21 August '2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Campaigners and child welfare organisations are renewing calls for a total ban on smacking in England, citing growing public support and mounting evidence of the harm caused by physical punishment. Recent polling indicates that attitudes among young adults have shifted significantly in recent years, with an increasing majority considering any form of force against children unacceptable. While Wales...

Published: 21 August '2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Emergency departments across the NHS are facing an unprecedented surge in patients seeking urgent care due to hunger, according to recent analyses of national health data. Over the past five years, admissions linked directly to lack of food have more than tripled, rising by nearly 219 percent between 2018-19 and 2023-24, as rising food prices and poverty levels...

Published: 20th August 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The idea of a man over 60 stepping into a yoga class — particularly one that takes place in a heated inflatable studio — might once have sounded improbable. Yoga in Britain, after all, has often been perceived as the preserve of Lycra-clad twenty- and thirty-somethings, with an air of smugness that deters older newcomers. Yet, as mounting...

Published: 20 August 2025. The English Chronicle Desk Boys and girls should be taught about periods together in schools to foster a better understanding of menstruation, according to new research conducted by academics at University College London (UCL). The study highlights significant gaps in current school curricula, where many students reportedly receive only two lessons on periods throughout their entire education – one in primary school and one in secondary...

Published: 20 August 2025 | The English Chronicle Desk A comprehensive new study has revealed that young people who use e-cigarettes are three times more likely to start smoking, experience asthma, and face mental health challenges compared with their peers who do not vape. The findings provide compelling evidence of the health risks associated with youth vaping and raise urgent questions about the need for stricter public health measures. The...

Published: 19th August 2025 .The English Chronicle Desk European health authorities are raising fresh concerns over the growing threat of so-called “suitcase viruses” as outbreaks of chikungunya and dengue fever spread across popular holiday destinations. Both illnesses, transmitted by infected aedes mosquitoes, are increasingly being detected in parts of Europe, heightening the risk that travellers could inadvertently carry them into countries such as the United Kingdom. Medical experts warn that...

Published: 19 August 2025 | The English Chronicle Desk The scale of harmful and degrading online pornography being viewed by children in the UK has intensified sharply in recent years, according to alarming new findings released by the Children’s Commissioner. The report, compiled under Dame Rachel de Souza, paints a troubling picture of how violent and extreme content is increasingly reaching children, often without them ever searching for it. The...