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International health experts say Canada is no longer measles-free because of ongoing outbreaks, as childhood vaccination rates fall and the highly contagious virus spreads across North and South America, Read MoreContinue Reading

Graham Fraser BBC Scotland University of Dundee Prof Iris Grunwald demonstrates the technology which she says now shows that a specialist doesn’t need to be “in the same hospital, or even in the same country, to help you” Doctors from Scotland and the US have completed what is thought toContinue Reading

The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday it would remove the black box warning on hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women., Read MoreContinue Reading

This is a MedPage Today story. Cleveland Clinic officials fired back at a conservative organization’s “Woke Alert” attack ad that asked if the large health system was “the wokest hospital in America,” saying the ad’s claims are “riddled with inaccuracies and lies.” The ad, by Consumers’ Research, says clinic officialsContinue Reading

States are facing uncertainty about providing full monthly benefits for a federal food program serving 42 million Americans, Read MoreContinue Reading

Episode details Radio 4 , 09 Nov 2025 , 28 mins Available for over a year Emily Berry leads us on an exploration of agoraphobia: a poetic journey through the lives of people who don’t like going on journeys. Agoraphobia is elusive and elastic – and it’s very probably notContinue Reading

Rebecca Curran, BBC Scotland and Ken Banks, North east Scotland reporter Getty Images Thousands of North Sea oil workers are being told they must lose weight if they are to keep flying offshore – or face losing their jobs. From November next year, industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) saidContinue Reading

Madeline Halpert and Christal Hayes Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, has died aged 97. In one of the greatest breakthroughs of the 20th Century, he identified the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953 alongside British scientist Francis Crick, setting theContinue Reading