January 16, 2025
Health & Fitness
January 16, 2025
Government to lead UK emergency pandemic exercise …
Emergency service teams, local councils and government officials will take part in a full, multi-day pandemic preparedness exercise, to help the UK prepare for potential future threats. The test, which is likely to take
January 16, 2025
Cancer’s New Face: Younger and Female
More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American Cancer Society reported on Thursday. And despite overall improvements in survival, Black and Native
January 16, 2025
Insulin Prices Dropped. But Some Poor Patients Are…
Maricruz Salgado was bringing her diabetes under control. Thanks to a federal program that allowed health clinics that serve poor people to buy drugs at steeply discounted prices, she was able to pay less
January 16, 2025
Mom’s Gripes About Sister-in-Law Put Daughter in a…
My mother is hypercritical of my brother’s wife, to the point that she blames my sister-in-law for my brother’s “failings” (not getting a better job, not taking better care of his health, etc.). It
January 16, 2025
Tanzania denies suspected Marburg outbreak after W…
Tanzania has dismissed a World Health Organisation (WHO) report of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in the north-west of the country. On Tuesday, the global health agency said a total
January 16, 2025
Rise of vaccine distrust – why more of us ar…
Getty Images Covid vaccines saved lives. Lots of them. Research by the World Health Organization (WHO) now puts the number at 475,000 in the UK with many more kept out of hospital or off
January 16, 2025
Patients dying in hospital corridors, say nurses
Getty Images Patients are dying in corridors and pregnant women are miscarrying in side rooms as overwhelmed hospitals struggle to cope, nurses say. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said evidence provided by more
January 15, 2025
Families failed by Covid vaccines tell inquiry of …
Family handout Jamie and Kate Scott on holiday before the pandemic Families of those harmed by Covid vaccines told the UK Covid Inquiry they were forced to support each other during the pandemic because
January 15, 2025