Browsing: Health

Rachel Dixon’s piece about “dusking” (‘All you need is a chair and a view’: could daily ‘dusking’ make us healthier and happier?, 1 March) gave a…

Weight-loss jabs such as Wegovy and Ozempic could be made for just $3 a month, according to new analysis, potentially making the treatment available to millions…

Did you drink ice water today? If you did, that was “not very Chinese of you”, according to Sherry Zhu, a 23-year-old Chinese American creator based…

The alert came around 7pm.Brittani Phillips checked her phone. A middle school counselor in Putnam county, Florida, Phillips receives messages from an artificial intelligence-enabled therapy platform…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup.First up, a worrying prediction…

Myfanwy Webb remembers her son Jeremy was “always getting ticks” because he spent a lot of time in the bush, camping and mountain bike riding, around…

Lucy Foulkes explores the possibility that the rising numbers of young people receiving a diagnosis of mental illness or ADHD are subjects of overdiagnosis (Are we…

Of all the pesticides out there, few have sparked more controversy than glyphosate. The world’s most used weed killer, glyphosate is perhaps better known by the…

Patients with eating disorders are being discharged from mental health units even though they are still very thin and have “dangerously low” body mass index levels.Some…

A series of bilateral health agreements being negotiated between African countries and the administration of President Donald Trump have been labelled “clearly lop-sided” and “immoral” amid…