England

Casgevy is the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR. The approval could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling illness in the U.K.

Rishi Sunak’s office said the incremental changes could almost completely phase out smoking in young people as soon as 2040.

Three respected health think tanks warned that the NHS is “in critical condition” and won’t make it to 100 years without more money and better long-term planning.

The experimental technique is an effort to prevent children from inheriting rare genetic diseases. Critics warn that tweaking the genetic code this way could be a slippery slope that leads to designer babies.

The walkout by Junior doctors, who make up 45% of all doctors in the National Health Service, means that operations and appointments will be canceled for thousands of patients.

Britain’s Health Security Agency said it had detected polio viruses derived from the oral polio vaccine in sewage water from eight boroughs of London, but had not identified any cases.

Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said the government planned to dispose of 15,000 pallets a month of the gear “via a combination of recycling and burning to generate power.”

Abortions in England, Wales and Scotland are allowed until 24 weeks, but the law says terminations can be allowed until birth if there’s “a substantial risk" the child would be "seriously handicapped."

Professor Paul Elliott, director of the React program at Imperial’s School of Public Health, speculated that men gathering at homes and pubs to watch the European Championship was one reason for the trend.