Browsing: Health

Millions of people aged 50 or over in the UK are predicted to have undiagnosed sight or hearing problems, prompting calls for that age group to…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Being a doctor is challenging enough, but imagine having a patient whose health has direct implications for…

To cat owners, a litter box is a nuisance. But to scientists, it’s a trove of information. A team of researchers at Nestlé Purina PetCare decided…

‘Are you sure you want that one?” asks the assistant in the flagship Waterstones store in Piccadilly, London. I’d picked up a classic self-help book, Thinking,…

Dolly Parton has taken to social media to clarify she “ain’t dead yet!”In a post shared on her Instagram and YouTube channel, the country music star…

Iain Coleman, the former MP for Hammersmith and Fulham, who has died aged 67, was renowned within his west London constituency for a policy of free social…

The Trump administration plans to export its “war on woke” by forcing foreign governments, non-governmental organisations and international bodies to abandon working on diversity, equity and…

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In the UK, it’s estimated that 1.5 million people are on weight loss jabs.For many, as the Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample, explains, they have proved…

I hope you had a good summer: I did not. On the day we were supposed to be going on holiday, I was sitting in A&E…