British women living with a partner are more than twice as likely to lack interest in sex compared to men living with a partner.

In 2015 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) caused 3.2m deaths and asthma 0.4m deaths worldwide.

Two major new projects providing an alternative approach to address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to public health have each received £1.7 million grants under the Cross Research Council Tackling AMR Initiative.