Infections that are resistant to antibiotics continue to threaten global health experts warn, as hospitals report an alarming rise in the number of deaths driven by drug resistant strains.
Heartburn, indigestion, feeling bloated and general unease that lingers longer after your meal are all-too-common gut complaints that have become a regular part of life.
Have you had the razor throat, hacking cough or the endlessly runny nose yet? If not, count yourself lucky. For everyone else, it seems, is coughing and spluttering - and the numbers back that up.
Getting into a hot bath after a day working from home, Sally-Anne Hawkins finally felt some relief from the pain she'd been experiencing in her abdomen for some months.
A lifesaving prostate screening programme would require only five more MRI scanners and 75 extra staff, including four urologists, Prostate Cancer Research says.