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Heavy consumption of energy drinks may raise the risk of heart disease and pose a serious risk of stroke, doctors have warned.Millions of people worldwide regularly…

Name: Parasite cleanses.Age: The earliest written records of what were probably parasitic infections in humans are from Egyptian medicine, between around 3000 and 400BC.Hardly news then.…

Reporting Highlights Suing the Poor: At one community health center in Kansas, many patients sued were uninsured and made so little money they qualified for discounted…

Health officials have identified a new variant of mpox in England after a person who recently travelled to Asia was tested for the virus.Genome sequencing showed…

New rules on access to single-sex spaces could pose a significant risk to the mental health of trans and non-binary people, according to 15 of the…

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Couples undergoing IVF in the UK are exploiting an apparent legal loophole to rank their embryos based on genetic predictions of IQ, height and health, the…

A groundbreaking soil-health measuring technique could help avert famine and drought, scientists have said.At the moment, scientists have to dig lots of holes to study the…

TikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation.The…