Browsing: Health

Sixteen states are suing the Trump administration to defend transgender youth healthcare access, which has rapidly eroded across the US due to threats from the federal…

The Trump administration is planning a pilot program to cover “miracle” weight loss drugs under the government health insurance systems for low-income people and retirees, Medicaid…

A downside to hot weather is all the bugs that can feast on or sting us. Is there anything you can do to avoid this? And…

Over the past four weeks, the Covid-19 inquiry has examined how the care sector was affected by a lack of testing and protective equipment and by…

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to bring back the presidential fitness test, a series of physical tests for schoolchildren in the US that…

Nine out of 10 nurses have rejected a 3.6% pay award for this year and warned they could strike later this year unless their salaries are…

A report into the death of a five-year-old Rotherham boy sent home from A&E has called for national guidance to take into account parents’ intuition that…

The year my body revolted, I read all 1,296 pages of War and Peace. I did very little else. My body had become stuck in a…

As five days of strike action by resident doctors come to an end, the BMA has written asking me to return to the negotiating table. I’ve…

Scientists are beginning to understand that ageing is not a simply linear process. Instead, recent research appears to show that we age in three accelerated bursts;…