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Opinion: Former surgeon general: Vaccine-preventable diseases are still a major threat

“You can’t die of heart disease at 50 if you died of polio at 5,” Jerome Adams, former surgeon general, warns.

Is it true that … stress makes you gain weight?

Food quells anxieties, but is a short-term fix that leads to excess weight.

China intraocular lens market to grow at 2% CAGR through 2033, forecasts GlobalData

As myopia rates rise, China's intraocular lens market is poised for growth, driven by the need for long-term, effective vision correction solutions

I’m an A&E nurse – and in my hospital right now, we can’t give patients the dignified care they need | Susie

Injured people are being seen in viewing rooms for dead bodies.

University of Strathclyde-led study to explore AI’s role in accelerating vaccine and medicine development

Research to examine machine learning applications in genomic medicine production

‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies? – podcast

Doctors are pushing the limits of science and human biology to save more extremely premature babies than ever before.

Brain implant that could boost mood by using ultrasound to go under NHS trial

Devices may have potential to help patients with conditions such as depression, addiction, OCD and epilepsyA groundbreaking NHS trial will attempt to boost patients’ mood using a brain-computer-inte

Medics remove tumour using keyhole surgery through eye socket in UK first

Leeds surgeons first to use new type of surgery that gives hope to patients whose cancers were previously inoperableMedics have performed a UK-first operation to remove a previously inoperable brain t

Johnson plan to build 40 new hospitals ‘unachievable’, Streeting told

Health secretary to set out revised plans in Commons after warning from the Infrastructure and Projects AuthorityBoris Johnson’s 2019 pledge to build 40 new NHS hospitals by 2030 across England “

'We Lost Our Community, We Lost Our Neighborhood': What We Heard This Week

(MedPage Today) -- "Not only did we lose our home. We lost our community, we lost our neighborhood." -- Sion Roy, MD, of Harbor UCLA Medical Center, on the devastation from the California fires.

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