May 5, 2025
Health & Fitness
May 5, 2025
Doing nothing on social care is untenable, MPs war…
A failure to fix England’s social care system is costing the country in financial and human terms, cross-party MPs have warned. Doing nothing to reform social care for older and disabled adults is an
May 4, 2025
Sybil Shainwald, Lawyer Who Fought for Women’s Hea…
Sybil Shainwald, a lawyer who for nearly half a century represented women whose health had been irreparably and often catastrophically harmed by poorly tested drugs and medical devices, died on April 9 at her
May 4, 2025
How Trump’s Cuts Are Stifling L.G.B.T.Q. Health Re…
The Trump administration has systematically stripped funding from research into the health of L.G.B.T.Q. people. Benjamin Mueller, a reporter covering health and medicine for The New York Times, describes how hundreds of such projects
May 4, 2025
US researchers seek to legitimise AI mental health…
Researchers at Dartmouth College, seen here, believe they have developed a reliable AI-driven app to deliver psychotherapy, addressing a critical need for mental health care. —AFP NEW YORK: Researchers at Dartmouth College believe artificial
May 4, 2025
Karachi sees surge in food poisoning, other diseas…
A woman uses a piece of cardboard to fan her son, while waiting for their turn for a medical checkup, outside Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre during intense hot weather in Karachi. — Reuters/File A
May 4, 2025
Trump’s V.A. Squeezes Mental Health Care in Crowed…
In a Boston V.A. hospital, six social workers are conducting phone and telehealth visits with veterans from a single, crowded room, clinicians say. In Kansas City, providers are planning patient care while facing each
May 4, 2025
Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T…
The Trump administration has scrapped more than $800 million worth of research into the health of L.G.B.T.Q. people, abandoning studies of cancers and viruses that tend to affect members of sexual minority groups and
May 3, 2025
Teen mental health – when to seek help and what pa…
Getty Images Lucy says she’s always been a bit of worrier, but two years ago she began to get anxious and started having panic attacks. “I didn’t know what was happening and my parents
May 3, 2025