Poppy Koronka

London

Health Correspondent at The Times

Health Correspondent @thetimes. Email for tips + stories: [email protected]

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Is Britain heading for a summer of discontent?

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Aubrey Allegretti |Georgia Lambert |Nicola Woolcock |Poppy Koronka
China given access to half a million anonymised NHS GP records

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Poppy Koronka

Chinese researchers could access data from up to half a million NHS health records, as intelligence agencies warned of the security risks regarding authoritarian regimes accessing people's data. The UK Biobank stores the anonymised health data of 500,000 volunteers, which scientists from around the world can apply to use in their research. Analysis from The Guardian has found that one in five successful applications to use the data came from researchers in China.
Skin cancer patients to join 'revolutionary' NHS vaccine trial

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Poppy Koronka
Simple home 'spit test' can spot prostate cancer signs

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Poppy Koronka
Grieving father leads overhaul of suicide risk assessment system

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Charlie Parker |Poppy Koronka
UK's most prescribed drug can reduce dementia risk by 13 per cent

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Poppy Koronka
Why fasting could beat calorie-counting for weight loss

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Poppy Koronka

Intermittent fasting is more effective than calorie restriction for weight loss, new research has suggested. People on a "4:3" intermittent fasting regime, where calorie intake is restricted for three days in a week, lost slightly more weight over a 12-month period than those on a daily calorie restriction diet.
'Nonchalant' Keir Starmer returns to his old Oxford college

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Poppy Koronka
Hybrid workers 'take fewer sick days' than those in the office

4 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Poppy Koronka

A third of hybrid workers say they take fewer sick days than when working full-time in the office, a poll has shown. The survey of 2,002 hybrid workers found that 68 per cent reported having fewer stress-related physical symptoms, such as stomach pain or headaches, while 71 per cent were now better able to attend regular health check-ups and appointments.
Royal Free Hospital to shut maternity unit as birth rates tumble

4 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Poppy Koronka

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