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Latest news on Pneumonia, a lung infection that can range from mild symptoms to life-threatening circumstances. For those at serious risk (generally older people, babies, or the immunocompromised) a vaccination is available that can help prevent the infection.

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Toddler, two, put into coma after 'getting food poisoning' on 5 star Tui holiday

Channel: UK UK November 10, 2024 By Jen Mills
Hospital bosses have since apologised to Martin Wakely

Great-grandad slept on A&E floor in agony while waiting 12-hours for trolley

Channel: UK UK November 3, 2024 By Oliver Jones

Asylum seeker 'hopes he'll recover' after hundreds leave Bibby Stockholm 'prison'

Channel: UK UK October 30, 2024 By Danny Rigg

Girl, 10, saved mum by calling 999 pleading 'I don't want to lose her'

Channel: UK UK October 20, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Inmate requests decadent final meal before lethal injection after killing pregnant woman

Channel: US US October 19, 2024 By Jessica Kwong
Robert Roberson photographed through plexiglass at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit

Autistic dad hours away from execution after being 'convicted by junk science'

Channel: US US October 18, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
Young woman laying in bed and using smart phone.

Grim warning issued over using your phone in bed

Channel: Tech Tech October 15, 2024 By Hiyah Zaidi
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Number of people in hospital with Covid rises again after new XEC strain emerges

Channel: UK UK October 13, 2024 By Sam Corbishley
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My daughter died from sepsis at 13 — her words will haunt me forever

Channel: UK UK October 12, 2024 By Danny Rigg

Woman, 73, choked to death on ham sandwich in care home

Channel: UK UK September 25, 2024 By Brooke Davies
Covid19 vaccine in injection ready for vaccination. The syringe represent various healthcare and medicine concepts.

Fears of a ‘tripledemic’ of Covid, flu, and RSV this winter

Channel: Tech Tech September 23, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
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The silent killer that could wipe out 40,000,000 people in just 25 years

Channel: Tech Tech September 19, 2024 By Hiyah Zaidi
Stock image of a pregnant woman receiving a vaccine as the NHS rollout of RSV jabs begins in the UK

All you need to know about the new RSV vaccine rolled out this month

Channel: UK UK September 2, 2024 By Jen Mills
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No one knows source of stealth disease that's killed four so far in Milan

Channel: World World August 26, 2024 By Danny Rigg

Dementia sufferer, 93, died after eating laundry pods that looked like sweets

Channel: UK UK August 17, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
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Three dead after outbreak of Legionnaires' disease at tourist hotspot

Channel: World World August 14, 2024 By Sam Corbishley

Labour may target pensions but we all need to pay more tax say Metro readers

Channel: Letters Letters August 4, 2024 By Letters Editor
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Student 'died for 25 minutes' after suffering extreme sunburn

Channel: UK UK August 3, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
Seth Rider of United States reacts after finishing the Paris Olympics men's single triathlon race

Doctor has his say on Olympian who 'doesn't wash his hands after the loo'

Channel: Tech Tech August 13, 2024 By Jen Mills

Were Reform UK's candidates even real?

Channel: Politics Politics July 9, 2024 By Danny Rigg