Browsing: Health

The number of young people living with debilitating and incurable bowel conditions worldwide is growing, but researchers now hope a one-of-a-kind microscope will help them understand…

Ahmed: ‘The lack of privacy has created an emotional silence’Before the war, Ahmed, 39, had a busy life. He was pursuing a PhD in factchecking and…

For some it’s a high-pitched mosquito whine; for others it’s a low bass hum. It might come and go with periods of stress, or it might…

In 2018 Theresa May’s government changed the law to allow the NHS and private providers to prescribe cannabis-based medical products.The NHS prescribes medical cannabis for a…

Concern is being raised about Palantir’s work with the NHS as new figures showed tens of thousands of patients have withdrawn their data from use in…

State health officials were so alarmed by a controversial federal government aged-care funding tool that they kept a log of hundreds of cases where vulnerable older…

Anita Bazell had never coped with the heat very well, her family said. So they were worried about her when temperatures across the UK soared to…

Devi Sridhar is right to welcome free cholesterol testing on the NHS in England and blood pressure checks in pharmacies. Such measures can help identify health…

You write that instead of fearing cognitive decline, “changing the way you think about the brain cliff can literally change the way you think and remember”.…

Mental health organisations have “failed to acknowledge” the risk of violence from a minority of people with severe mental illnesses, the chief executive of Mind has…