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September 15, 20253 min readDeath Rates from Chronic Diseases Dropped in Most CountriesA report finds that death rates from cancer and heart disease have declined since…

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Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new…

MRI Accidents Explained: What Causes Deaths and Injuries in ScannersWhen serious accidents happen in magnetic resonance imaging scanners, it’s usually because people ignore one very important…

A few weeks ago, two groups of protesters gathered on the steps of the Senedd in Cardiff Bay. One demonstration was against the war in Gaza,…

Attacks on prison officers and the number of inmate deaths in England and Wales have soared to record levels, according to official figures.Ministry of Justice statistics…

Ethnic minorities and people living in the most deprived areas of England are at increased risk of dying due to excess heat, according to research.A study,…

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‘Knowing there might be an alternative brings relief and hope’When she was only 18, a few months into an undergraduate degree in classics at Warwick University,…

The thousands of civilian deaths in Gaza from Israel’s bombing campaign are “indefensible”, minister Tony Burke has said, after Australia joined 27 other countries condemning Israel…