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Health secretary says projects instead involve ‘a range of things’ including new wings and refurbishmentsThe health secretary has admitted the government is not building 40 new hospitals by 2030, as long promised, but said the projects involved “a range of things” including new wings and&hel

Karima Saïdi’s documentary movingly tries to shore up memories from her mother’s life, but the ethics of the process are uneasyWhile caring for her mother Aïcha who has Alzheimer’s, film-maker Karima Saïdi often asks her the simple yet loaded question: “Where do you live?” At one&hellip

For World Menstrual Hygiene Day, Child Rights and You’s releases findings from a study on awareness of menstrual hygiene and health amongst adolescent girls in India

Recent research shows that most pregnancy-related deaths occur in the year after a baby is born. The discovery is changing how doctors care for new mothers.

New mothers are at risk for up to a year, research has shown. But the first six weeks are the most perilous.

More and more of us suffer from allergies, and medicine is struggling to keep up. Rebecca Seal talks to medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhailWhen Theresa MacPhail was four, her brother was killed in an accident. When she was 14, her mother died in a car crash. And when she was 24, her father died&

We must be wary of publicly declaring why people take their own life. It can do harmWhen someone talks about taking their own life, it’s very often an anguished distress signal. But sometimes repeated suicide threats are used as the ultimate means of control in a coercive relationship. “If you&h

As outgoings exceed income, people can’t afford to pay for the support they need along with normal expensesDisabled people are paying “a tax on disability” by being forced to fund soaring care charges out of their benefits as the cost of living pushes care users into financial…

An electrode implant helps a 40-year-old paralysed man walk by re-storing the digital bridge between brain and spine

While India has continued to do well on menstrual hygiene management, social taboos about menstruating women and girls remain significant barriers to achieving period equity.

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Observer investigation reveals Meta Pixel tool passed on private details of web browsing on medical sitesNHS trusts are sharing intimate details about patients’ medical conditions, appointments and treatments with Facebook without consent and despite promising never to do so.An Observer…

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The Yale professor and long Covid expert on why the virus is causing ongoing illness for so many, and the challenges she faces as a woman of colour in scienceAccording to the most recent estimates, more than 65 million people worldwide may be living with some form of long Covid, a startling number&h

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The enhanced risk of dengue has been propelled by several factors, including climate change, urbanised environments that are temperature controlled, and increased travel

(MedPage Today) -- On January 9 of this year, the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) published their "Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Obesity." With this guidance, the AAP is advising...

Smarter Food ramps up production of its GRextra plant strain that helps lower elevated blood glucose levelsImagine eating a bowl of soup once a week that could help bring down your blood sugar levels and so reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.This may sound like wishful thinking or the&he

A total of 271 complaints of medical negligence against doctors and staff working at private and government hospitals in Gurugram have been recorded from January 2019 to April 15, 2023.

Having a toothache at night can make falling asleep or staying asleep incredibly challenging. Even though you just want to fall asleep, the discomfort makes it difficult to do. Even worse, your dentist isn’t open this late. You should definitely call your dentist in the morning, but in the&hel

To glimpse the future of medicine, step inside Mayo Clinic's cutting-edge Center for Individualized Medicine. There, physicians, researchers, data scientists, artificial intelligence engineers and bioethicists are working side-by-side to investigate massive "omics" data sets. The innovative&hel

Alnylam is again seeking an unspecified share of royalties from the companies' vaccine sales.

The centre will immunize against various vaccine-preventable diseases such as Pneumococcal disease, Hepatitis A and B, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), Influenza, and more.