Treatment should be based on medical need not risk control The independent sentencing review, led by former lord chancellor ...

Waes hael was an Anglo-Saxon greeting meaning be whole or be healthy. From this is derived the modern word health. Paul said ...

Napier attended Worksop College before winning a scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge, to read medicine. After ...

Chris was born in Middlesbrough on 11 November 1960, to Judith Ann and Donald Rigg, and grew up in Stockton-on-Tees. He ...

Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is ...

What you need to know The World Health Organization (WHO) defines infertility as the lack of a pregnancy after at least 12 ...

Experts are concerned by claims—including possible future treatments for autism and diabetes—made about the value of banking baby teeth. Emma Wilkinson reports Video 1 Journalist Emma Wilkinson joins ...

Symptoms should be prioritised ahead of testing A societal transformation of attitudes and beliefs surrounding menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) has outpaced provider education, leaving primary care ...

The New York City Health Department has reported five deaths and 108 confirmed cases of legionnaires’ disease, a type of pneumonia, since the outbreak in Harlem was identified on 25 July. It seems to ...

Maternity and neonatal care services are badly in need of an overhaul at national level to improve safety locally, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) has warned in a review. The ...

Health interventions can help remedy many of the hazards around us, whether disease, discomfort, uncertainty, or instability. Drugs for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have proved useful to ...

More than half a million people in Gaza are now “trapped in famine,” as food and clean water continue to be used as weapons of war as part of Israel’s “genocidal campaign,” aid agencies have said. The ...