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First patient in UK tests new treatment for loss of sense of smell

Chrissi Kelly, who says anosmia is a ‘like a bereavement’, is trialling a simple procedure that could help those who lost sense of smell during Covid or other viral infections Smell loss was a de

Texas Judge Fines New York Doc for Prescribing Abortion Pills to Dallas-Area Woman

(MedPage Today) -- A Texas judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor to pay more than $100,000 in penalties for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, a ruling that could test "shield l

British professor makes ‘thrilling’ breakthrough for cancer that killed his mother

Paul Workman has researched untreatable chordoma for years.

Saying ‘women’ is not allowed, but ‘men’ and ‘white’ are OK? I’m (not) shocked

Thanks to Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders attacking a number of terms, ‘women’ is literally being erasedThanks to the intolerant left, nobody can say the word “women” anymore! Do yo

JD Vance decried as extremist over attack on UK abortion clinic safe zones

US vice-president’s comments, part of a wide-ranging tirade against Europe, called inaccurate and misogynistic JD Vance has been labelled an “extremist” after he launched a broadside against the

‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis

Republican-run states may see worst fallout from slashes to NIH medical funding as maternal mortality climbs in USOn Tuesday, a few days after the Trump administration announced its plan to slash bill

From overly tight underwear to conceiving after 35 – experts bust fertility myths

We sort the scientific facts from the misconceptionsIt can take around three menstrual cycles for someone’s expected fertility to return once they stop taking the pill, but there’s no long-te

Opinion: A physician and author’s 1984 tribute to the NIH feels all the more valuable today

“The National Institutes of Health is not only the largest institution for biomedical science on earth, it is one of this nation's great treasures,” physician-humanist Lewis Thomas wrote in 1984.

Musk’s takeover of US health agencies raises pandemic threat, experts warn

Doge wreaks havoc on HHS and CDC as Trump seeks to grant committee sweeping governmental powersThe “department of government efficiency”, the Donald Trump-created program known as Doge and headed

‘I didn’t want to spend time with my children. I was just going through the motions’: the pain of parental burnout

Most people with small children are worn out – but for some, the pressure of striving to be perfect parents can drive them to the edge‘I cried like someone had died,” Rachel Stern says of the da

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