Browsing: Health

Surgeons have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain dead human recipient for the first time and found it functioned for nine…

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has accused pharmaceutical companies of being “shortsighted” and undermining their relationships with the government after the two sides failed to come…

Thank you for Arwa Mahdawi’s article (Would an ‘Unsexiest Women Alive’ list be published today? Maybe not – but body-shaming is definitely back, 19 August). I…

New research shows alarming levels of Pfas in the blood of people living or working near a US air force base responsible for polluting drinking water…

A rise in the number of sweet, food-scented perfumes on the market could be linked to an increase in the use of weight-loss medication, according to…

The first thing Raymond Martin looks for in a toilet, he says, is cleanliness. Does the tissue paper on the floor mean this public lavatory has…

The measles outbreak in Texas has officially ended, but as cases continue to be detected in other parts of the US state health experts are warning…

The World Health Organization has declared corporal punishment a global public health concern that causes serious harm to children’s physical and mental wellbeing, and can lead…

Baby food manufacturers have been given 18 months to improve the quality of their products in England, amid mounting concerns that leading brands are nutritionally poor.The…

With reference to the letters on Rose Stokes’ article (I thought we’d entered the age of body positivity. Then came ‘shrinking girl summer’ – is everyone…