Philippa Roxby Health reporter For the first time in Great Britain, there are more over-16s using vapes or e-cigarettes than smoking cigarettes, according to the Office for National Statistics. Some 5.4 million adults use vapes daily or occasionally, compared with 4.9 million using cigarettes, an ONS survey for 2024 suggests.Continue Reading
The fall COVID-19 vaccine season is starting slowly for Pfizer, with U.S. sales of its Comirnaty shots sinking 25% after federal regulators narrowed recommendations on who should get them, Read MoreContinue Reading
A standoff in Congress is keeping much of the government shut down as open enrollment begins in most states for Affordable Care Act plans. Democrats are demanding Republicans agree to extend ACA tax credits, but there has been little negotiating — even as customers are learning what they’ll pay forContinue Reading
The Maldives has banned young people born on or after 1 January 2007 from smoking tobacco, becoming the only country in the world to enforce a nationwide generational tobacco prohibition. The archipelago’s health ministry announced on Saturday that it would be illegal for younger generations to use, buy or sellContinue Reading
The head of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center abruptly resigned Sunday amid concerns about his personal conduct, Read MoreContinue Reading
Esme Stallard, Climate and science reporter, BBC News and Becky Dale and Wesley Stephenson, Senior data journalists, BBC Verify Getty Images Water companies have been ordered to tackle potentially harmful levels of so-called forever chemicals in drinking water sources for more than six million people, the BBC can reveal. ForeverContinue Reading
Long lines have formed at food pantries across the U.S. as federal food benefits were cut off due to the government shutdown, Read MoreContinue Reading
Lena-Zaharah Mohammed BBC Wales BBC/PA Elen Wyn has previously called on the Welsh government to offer more funding, better information and greater sensitivity to women’s health The Traitors star and Welsh opera singer Elen Wyn says she is “grateful to have an abnormal anatomy” as it ultimately led to herContinue Reading
Getty Images Thousands of people from some of Scotland’s most deprived areas are to be offered free weight-loss jabs as part of government-funded research. Up to 5,000 people in Scotland will take the injections as part of the multi-million pound study being led by Glasgow University. The findings will provideContinue Reading
Open enrollment began Saturday for healthcare insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces, and policyholders are bracing for big premium increases amid subsidy losses., Read MoreContinue Reading
At 21, I was crushed by a stranger’s joke about going bald. Then the way I looked at myself changed BBC I’m bald, and that bothered me for a long time. It bothered me that I was bothered. But just one swipe down my Instagram feed reveals I’m notContinue Reading
Nature walks are good for you, but can a city stroll be just as good, Read MoreContinue Reading
The Food and Drug Administration is restricting the use of fluoride supplements used to strengthen children’s teeth, Read MoreContinue Reading