January 20, 2025
Health & Fitness
January 20, 2025
Cervical screening knowledge gap ‘costing li…
Getty Images Cervical screening tests save thousands of lives each year in the UK, but many women do not take up invitations for screenings A knowledge gap around cervical screenings is currently “costing lives”,
January 18, 2025
Kennedy’s Plan for the Drug Crisis: A Network of ‘…
Though Mr. Kennedy’s embrace of recovery farms may be novel, the concept stretches back almost a century. In 1935, the government opened the United States Narcotic Farm in LexingtonKy., to research and treat addiction.
January 18, 2025
When the Retirement Community Goes Bankrupt
Three years ago, when Bob and Sandy Curtis moved into an upscale continuing care retirement community in Port Washington, N.Y., he thought they had found the best possible elder care solution. In exchange for
January 17, 2025
RFK Jr. Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the nation’s health agencies, formally asked the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the authorization of all Covid vaccines during a deadly phase
January 17, 2025
Medicare to Negotiate Lower Prices for Weight-Loss…
That would slow the growth of the government’s spending on obesity drugs even as more people on Medicare started using them. New prices for the 10 drugs in the first round of price negotiations
January 17, 2025
Calorie labelling has modest effect, latest eviden…
Getty Images Calories must now appear on menus in large restaurants and take-aways Putting calories on food labels and menus “is no silver bullet” say researchers, who analysed the best evidence to date on
January 17, 2025
Sick Prisoners in New York Were Granted Parole but…
When the letter arrived at Westil Gonzalez’s prison cell saying that he had been granted parole, he couldn’t read it. Over the 33 years he had been locked up for murder, multiple sclerosis had
January 17, 2025
Deaths of 56 babies at Leeds hospitals may have be…
MARTIN MCQUADE / BBC Amarjit Kaur and Mandip Singh Matharoo’s daughter Asees was stillborn in January 2024 The deaths of at least 56 babies, and two mothers, at an NHS trust over the past
January 17, 2025