Browsing: Health

As Emily Waldorf languished in an Arkansas hospital, she felt like “a ticking time bomb”. It was 2024, and the physical therapist was in the midst…

A pilot programme aimed at diagnosing heart disease among people from ethnic minority backgrounds should be rolled out across the whole of the NHS, the doctors…

Peter Bradshaw missed out an important cultural feature of Letchmore Heath (‘The Village of the Damned was shot here – then George Harrison bought a house’:…

Poet laureate Simon Armitage reads a poem called ‘The Campaign’. It was commissioned by Yorkshire Cancer Research, a charity that funds research and works with people…

A new European study has found high levels of maternal ill health, alongside persistent work-life balance and career penalties, in the UK and mainland Europe.How bad…

Seven out of 10 mothers in the UK feel overloaded and almost half have a mental health issue such as anxiety or depression, new research has…

Cancer is a subject the poet laureate Simon Armitage has always shied away from. “I find it very daunting,” he said. “I’ve lost friends and family…

Christina Brown was 18 years old the first time she had to correct a doctor when advocating for health.Breast cancer runs in her family, so she…

In southern California, where rates of homelessness are among the highest in the nation, a private company, Akido Labs, is running clinics for unhoused patients and…

The main test for the UK’s second deadliest cancer is being made more accurate in England, in a move NHS bosses believe will save hundreds of…