‘What terminal cancer has taught me about life’ Image source, Rex Mackrill Image caption, Rex used to love mountain climbing but now says he tries to enjoy every small thing like the taste of food or even the rain By Kate Clark Reporting fromGloucestershire and Polly March Reporting fromWest ofContinue Reading
Read our article on hang-xiety and what alcohol does to your brain. Subsection Health Published 13 hours ago Related topics Alcohol Anxiety Health Human body, from the BBC Read MoreContinue Reading
Tests like full-body scans marketed directly to consumers are pitched as a way to detect diseases early and establish a baseline of health markers. But there are financial, physical, and psychological risks to all medical tests — and in some cases, not getting a test could be better for yourContinue Reading
Life coach Yann Dang, who coaches senior women in male-dominated fields, says constructive anger can actually boost women’s standing in the workplace. Women who people-please and don’t show negative emotion can progress to a certain level on the career ladder, but to make it to the top you need toContinue Reading
Zimbabwean teenager Kelly Nhedega once dreamed of finishing school and starting a career before having a family, Read MoreContinue Reading
There are “ominous signs” that winter pressures are already affecting the NHS in England, according to senior health leaders. The warning comes as new data reveals the waiting list for routine hospital treatment in England rose for the second month in a row. An estimated 7.37 million treatments were waitingContinue Reading
Staff raced against rising floodwater to evacuate 36 residents from a nursing home in New Richland, Minnesota. It’s one of 100 facilities KFF Health News identified as facing some of the nation’s worst flood risk…Read MoreContinue Reading
Police have arrested thousands of young people in France during protests demanding better school funding, Read MoreContinue Reading
The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year, Read MoreContinue Reading
The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year, Read MoreContinue Reading
A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk in 2000 has been executed, a week after a failed lethal injection in Tennessee, Read MoreContinue Reading
Estimates suggest 170 million children and adolescents worldwide are obese. That includes 70 million children aged 5–9. Obesity prevalence in this age group has quadrupled since 1990, rising from 2% to 8%. In 2024, 35 million children under the age of five were overweight. Obesity increases the risk of manyContinue Reading
The plague, a rare bacterial infection known for its deadly impact in 14th-century Europe, still exists today, Read MoreContinue Reading