January 14, 2025
Health & Fitness
January 14, 2025
Alcohol Offers Some Health Benefits but Raises Can…
Among both men and women, drinking just one alcoholic beverage a day increases the risk of liver cirrhosis, esophageal cancer, oral cancer and various types of injuries, according to a federal analysis of alcohol’s
January 14, 2025
Kate thanks staff at cancer hospital where she was…
Kate meets patients at cancer hospital where she was treated The Princess of Wales has made a personal visit to thank staff and support patients at the hospital where she was treated for cancer.
January 14, 2025
GPs turn to AI to help with patient workload
Deepali Misra-Sharp Dr Deepali Misra-Sharp uses AI to help take notes This is the fifth feature in a six-part series that is looking at how AI is changing medical research and treatments. The difficulty
January 14, 2025
NHS home bowel-cancer tests to be extended to over…
All 50-74-year-olds in England will now receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years. NHS England has been posting the faecal-immunochemical test (Fit) to all 54-74-year-olds since 2021 and anyone older can
January 14, 2025
Women seeking abortions after using ‘natural…
Getty Images There has been a rise in the proportion of women seeking abortions despite using “natural” methods to prevent pregnancy, like fertility tracking apps, a study in England and Wales suggests. The data,
January 14, 2025
‘We re-mortgaged to fund our children’…
BBC Jannine described her son’s ADHD as “debilitating” Nearly 400,000 private prescriptions for ADHD medication were issued last year as patients sought to bypass lengthy NHS waiting lists, with people spending millions of pounds
January 13, 2025
RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Obscures America’s Unhealt…
“We will make Americans healthy again,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has declared. A political action committee that has promoted Mr. Kennedy, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for health and human services secretary, says his
January 13, 2025
Dementia Cases in the U.S. Will Surge in the Comin…
The number of people in the United States who develop dementia each year will double over the next 35 years to about one million annually by 2060, a new study estimates, and the number
January 13, 2025