Browsing: Health

It is a hangover from our school days that September can feel like a time for getting back to the grind. As in January, there is…

My friend Nicola Close, who has died aged 75 of cancer, was a public health leader who made a major contribution to the field as chief…

Kristina Delaney was five months postpartum when her husband saw something was very, very wrong. It was a Friday afternoon, and her husband had gone outside…

In 2000, I had been living in London for just over a decade and working at EMI Records for five years. I had moved to Brixton…

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” Benjamin Franklin’s adage goes. Yet that simple prescription has been hard to follow in the current…

Top US health officials and government agencies are currently not including the two recent measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania in their counts.“This is highly unusual,” said Debra…

Annie Andrews was a dark horse Democrat challenging a five-term Republican in the US Senate when 314 Action, a political action fund devoted to electing scientists…

The UK’s leading farming organisations and animal health experts have called for an urgent ban on imports of Brazilian meat, in light of concerns over the…

A common sweetener used in products such as chewing gum, toothpaste, jam, yoghurts and ice-cream has been linked to an increased risk of strokes, heart attacks…

Thousands of UK women develop undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after childbirth every year, research has found.The frightening and dangerous condition is being missed in at…