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Medicine, public health, fitness and the science behind them.
Lung cancer is still the top cancer killer. But new developments are shifting what the future might hold for patients, as one man's cancer journey shows.
Health & WellnessHealthy middle-aged people deemed to be at higher risk of developing condition among those eligible to participate People without memory loss will be offered an experimental Alzheimer’s…
Health & WellnessActivists are calling on the state attorney general to take action against hospitals that have ended gender-affirming care programs after Trump retook office A group of trans activists from…
Health & WellnessIt was a light bulb moment: If monsoon rains keep kids from safely getting to school, let's create a floating school to pick them up! Bangladesh pioneered the idea. How's it doing?
Health & WellnessSocial media, mental health problems, the pandemic and financial instability all contribute to the phenomenon On Tess Lavanda’s YouTube channel there is one video with substantially more…
Health & WellnessDupes of retatrutide are flooding the black market, but the drug is yet to be approved by regulators.
Health & WellnessNPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Allison Aubrey, health and science correspondent for NPR and the author of Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love . You can share your story of midlife…
Health & WellnessThat's the grim assessment from the ground in the wake of the catastrophic flooding, which damaged or destroyed 7 health facilities, interrupted routine care and is affecting mental health.
Health & WellnessOfficials decline to confirm whether death was one of two announced last week as Lancaster county outbreak grows A six-week-old child in Pennsylvania died from measles, the Lancaster county…
Health & WellnessMurder trial underscores how misunderstood postpartum illness is to experts and the general public, advocates say Kristina Delaney was five months postpartum when her husband saw something…
Health & WellnessStudy finds just one drink per day could raise risk of disease with impacts extending far beyond liver cancer Alcohol-related cancer deaths in the US have more than doubled over three…
Health & WellnessThe global effort to end child marriage is in the news. In the U.S., there's a new bill before Congress (but it's controversial). And the U.N. is designating a day dedicated to ending the…
Health & WellnessMy friend Nicola Close, who has died aged 75 of cancer, was a public health leader who made a major contribution to the field as chief executive of the Association of Directors of Public…
Health & WellnessThe judge in Lindsay Clancy's murder case has declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to agree on a verdict.
Health & WellnessThe pressure to self-optimise at the start of the new school year can lead to disappointment and burnout. Instead, here are seven ways to slow things down and reap the benefits It is a…
Health & WellnessHigh food prices are affecting everyone right now, but it turns out they are affecting some people way more than others. Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks at the grocery price situation and…
Health & WellnessResearch published in the journal Science illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism and offers new targets for drug development.
Health & WellnessThe US is an outlier in its approach to prosecuting infanticide. Why?
Health & WellnessA man has lived for a record nine months with a transplanted pig kidney while waiting for a human transplant.
Health & WellnessThe £21m hub brings together primary care, community wellbeing and leisure services in one location.
Health & WellnessSmall changes are what I’m aiming for – 10-minute workouts, cleaning out my handbag. Then I’m less likely to have failed come October Are you a January resolutions or a September reset…
Health & WellnessThe things you're doing to make your sleep better could actually be making your sleep worse.
Health & WellnessRugby legend Ryan Jones talks candidly about his early-onset dementia diagnosis.
Health & WellnessLive debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
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