March 25, 2025
Health & Fitness
March 25, 2025
Washington Bends to RFK Jr.’s ‘MAHA’ Agenda on Mea…
Babies are not ordinarily a fixture of closed-door White House meetings. But when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, convened a group of women this month for a discussion on nutrition and other
March 25, 2025
Who can get a Covid booster this spring and what d…
A number of High Street chemists and private clinics sell and administer the Pfizer Covid vaccine directly to the public. The cost per single dose varies but is typically between £75 and £99. You
March 25, 2025
UK draws up new disease-threat watch list
Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News Getty Images Oropouche virus, spread by biting midges and some mosquitoes, is on the list The UK has a new watch list of 24 infectious diseases that
March 25, 2025
Doctors and charities call for ‘gonorrhoea v…
Andrew Rogers BBC Newsbeat BBC Max shared his recent gonorrhoea diagnosis online and wants to end some of the stigma around the STI Max was in the shower when he got a call few
March 24, 2025
Trump to Nominate Susan Monarez to Lead C.D.C.
President Trump has selected Susan Monarez, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to lead the agency permanently. The president withdrew his first nominee, Dr. Dave Weldon, just hours before
March 24, 2025
Bird flu spreads to mammals, fears of human transm…
Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human transmission and turn into a new pandemic. Cases
March 24, 2025
FDA-Approved Artificial Blood Vessel Stirs Concern…
When the biotech company Humacyte designed a study to see if its lab-grown blood vessel worked, it decided to measure whether blood was flowing freely through the high-tech tube 30 days after it was
March 24, 2025
World’s first case of bird flu in sheep foun…
Steve Jones BBC News, Yorkshire Getty Images The case was found in a single sheep on a farm in Yorkshire (stock image) The world’s first case of bird flu in sheep has been found
March 24, 2025