The High Street pharmacy chain Boots is asking customers to return packs of 500-milligram paracetamol tablets because a labelling error incorrectly states they are a different painkiller, aspirin. More than 110,000 packs, with the
The new head of the Food and Drug Administration division that regulates infant formula was in recent months a corporate lawyer defending a top formula maker from claims that its product gave rise to
A man crosses a main road as pedestrians walk along the footpath in central Sydney, Australia. — Reuters/File Nearly 60% of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be
Carolyn Atkinson and Ben Robinson File on 4 Investigates Getty Images It took a clinical psychologist and others nine years to get Kasibba released (stock photo) An autistic woman with a learning disability was
In the weeks since President Trump signed an executive order dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, Andrea Minaj Casablanca’s phone has been inundated with desperate pleas for help. A counselor who works with
James Grant BBC News, Northamptonshire Getty Images Families won a landmark legal battle in 2009 after being exposed to toxic chemicals in Corby Netflix’s new drama Toxic Town revisits one of the UK’s biggest
Christine Jeavans Data journalist, BBC Verify Getty Images Improvements in death rates largely reflect better health at older age groups The UK death rate reached a record low last year, according to exclusive analysis
More than half of all adults and a third of children, teenagers and young adults around the world are predicted to be overweight or obese by 2050. The findings come in a new study
Plus size people are seen at work in bright, open office workplace. — Unsplash/File LONDON: A new study warns that obesity and overweight rates are rapidly increasing worldwide, with more than half of all
A child receives a polio vaccination during an anti-polio campaign on the outskirts of Jalalabad, March 16, 2015. — Reuters LONDON: The eradication of polio as a global health threat may be delayed unless US