Image source, Getty Images By Michelle Roberts Digital health editor From Monday, the NHS will take bookings from people in England wanting a free spring Covid booster vaccine. Those eligible, including everyone aged 75 or older or with a weak immune system, can book via the NHS website, app orContinue Reading
Thousands of Polish opponents of abortion are marching in Warsaw to protest recent steps by the new government to liberalize the predominantly Catholic nation’s strict laws and allow termination of pregnancy until the 12th week, Read MoreContinue Reading
The wife of a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has pleaded guilty to a federal charge after investigators said she shipped stolen human body parts to buyers, Read MoreContinue Reading
New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, Read MoreContinue Reading
Image source, PA Media Jeremy Paxman said Parkinson’s “makes you wish you hadn’t been born” as he delivered a list of recommendations about the disease to Downing Street. The TV presenter, who was diagnosed in 2021, marked World Parkinson’s Day by presenting a “Parky Charter” to No 10. The charterContinue Reading
The first drug shown to slow Alzheimer’s hit the U.S. market over a year ago, but sales have lagged and diagnosis and treatment remain complicated, Read MoreContinue Reading
A federal appeals court is considering whether to reinstate Arkansas’ first-in the-nation ban on gender affirming care for minors after hearing arguments, Read MoreContinue Reading
A bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows has spread to more than two dozen herds in eight states, Read MoreContinue Reading
A growing number of progressive candidates are choosing to tell their own abortion stories, Read MoreContinue Reading
Polish lawmakers have voted to continue work on proposals to lift a near-total ban on abortion, a highly divisive issue in the traditionally Roman Catholic country, Read MoreContinue Reading
Poland’s lawmakers vote to move forward with work on lifting a near-total abortion ban, Read MoreContinue Reading
A dozen additional victims say they were victimized by a medical assistant who falsely said he was nurse when they sought treatment in recent months at an urgent care facility outside Philadelphia, Read MoreContinue Reading
A Houston hospital has halted its liver and kidney transplant programs after it says a doctor manipulated a database for liver transplant patients, making them ineligible to receive a new organ, Read MoreContinue Reading