Health

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online More than 125,000 people have been displaced in Yemen since the beginning of September as renewed fighting pushes families from their homes and places additional pressure on communities already struggling with years of conflict and humanitarian hardship. The latest wave of displacement has been particularly severe in and around Taiz, where fighting has spread through rural districts and...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A cross-party House of Lords committee has called for a comprehensive ban on gambling advertising in Great Britain, arguing that much stronger action is needed to reduce gambling-related harm and respond to the rapid expansion of digital marketing. The recommendation is contained in a new 173-page follow-up report from the House of Lords Liaison Committee, which examined developments...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Access to parks, rivers, woodlands and other natural spaces remains uneven across England, with new research highlighting a significant gap between communities that can easily reach nature and those that cannot. The findings have renewed pressure on the government to move faster on its commitment to ensure people can reach green or blue space within a 15-minute walk...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Thousands of people with advanced breast cancer in England are set to gain access to the targeted cancer medicine Enhertu after a new agreement cleared the way for its routine use on the National Health Service. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, known as NICE, has recommended trastuzumab deruxtecan, sold under the brand name Enhertu, for...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Fiji has declared a national HIV emergency after a sharp increase in infections raised concerns about the country’s ability to contain a rapidly changing epidemic. The Pacific island nation, home to fewer than one million people, is facing one of the fastest increases in new HIV infections recorded globally, according to UNAIDS. The emergency declaration was announced by...

Published: 15 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have announced that the country’s latest Ebola outbreak has reached its peak, offering a measure of hope after months of rapidly spreading disease, thousands of infections and a heavy death toll. Health officials say the number of new cases is now declining, although they have stressed that preventive measures must...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online More than two decades after the September 11 attacks, the consequences of the World Trade Center disaster continue to emerge in the lives of people who survived it. For one British journalist who reported from New York in the immediate aftermath, returning to the Ground Zero memorial this year carried a deeply personal significance. He was no longer...

Published: 07 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Britain’s largest private hospital operator, Spire Healthcare, has agreed to a £1.03bn takeover by an investment group led by Toscafund Asset Management, placing one of the country’s biggest independent healthcare providers under the control of a private investment firm amid renewed debate over the growing role of private companies in delivering medical services linked to the National Health...

**Published: 01 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online** The alarm goes off earlier than expected. The suitcase is back in the cupboard, the holiday clothes are being put away and an inbox filled with unread messages is waiting. Only days earlier, mornings may have started slowly, evenings stretched late into the night and everyday responsibilities seemed less urgent. Returning to work can make that relaxed routine...

**Published: 28 August 2026 | The English Chronicle Desk | The English Chronicle Online** A senior nurse from Kent has been reported missing in Nepal after devastating flash flooding struck near the Nepal-Tibet border, leaving hundreds of people dead or unaccounted for and triggering an urgent search for survivors. Sarada Simkhada, a senior nurse at Darent Valley Hospital, was travelling in the region as part of a pilgrimage to Mount...