Browsing: Health

A coroner in Pennsylvania announced the death of a 40-year-old woman associated with the state’s ongoing measles outbreak. The death appears to mark the third in…

Ahmed: ‘The lack of privacy has created an emotional silence’Before the war, Ahmed, 39, had a busy life. He was pursuing a PhD in factchecking and…

Silicosis is one of the oldest workplace hazards and public health experts have known for decades how to prevent it. Yet a new wave of workers,…

They suppress your appetite so you never feel hungryFALSE “GLP-1 medications mimic Glucagon-like peptide-1 – one of the hormones involved in appetite regulation. It doesn’t completely suppress…

One person has died from legionnaires’ disease, and four more have been sickened in New York City amid a new cluster of cases only weeks after…

For some it’s a high-pitched mosquito whine; for others it’s a low bass hum. It might come and go with periods of stress, or it might…

Azad*, an asylum seeker from Iran, recounts his story in a gentle and mild manner, seated in the stillness of a therapy room at a trauma…

MPs have been debating a bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. The bill would allow terminally ill adults with less than six months…

Frontline activists and leaders in the fight against female genital mutilation, which has affected more than 230 million women and girls worldwide, have welcomed an unprecedented…

In 2018 Theresa May’s government changed the law to allow the NHS and private providers to prescribe cannabis-based medical products.The NHS prescribes medical cannabis for a…