Nick Triggle Health correspondent The UK’s winter flu season has begun five weeks earlier than usual, health officials are warning. The UK Health Security Agency said cases were rising quickly among children and young people – and warned the virus would soon start to spread across older age groups. TheContinue Reading
This is a MedPage Today story. HAVANA, Fla. — For a rural community, this town of 1,750 people has been more fortunate than most. A family doctor has practiced here for the last 30 years. But that ended in December when Mark Newberry, MD, retired. To attract a new doctor,Continue Reading
Bill Swick, who has a rare degenerative brain disease, has lost access to virtual speech therapy due to the federal government shutdown, Read MoreContinue Reading
MedPage Today) — Combining in-clinic physical therapy with home exercise did not lead to greater reductions in knee pain for patients with degenerative meniscal tear, a randomized trial showed. Among 879 patients, the difference in the 3-month…Read MoreContinue Reading
Two major nutrition programs — SNAP and WIC — are likely to exhaust their funding in November, and the furloughs and firings at the CDC have left the agency unable to perform some of its major functions. Meanwhile, President Traitor 47’s new IVF policy is being met with dissatisfaction fromContinue Reading
The Alaska Supreme Court is weighing a case that’s expected to determine who can provide abortion care in the state, Read MoreContinue Reading
Illegal teeth-whitening industry exposed by BBC Daniel O’Donoghue & Laura O’Neill BBC North West Investigations Getty Illegal teeth-whitening treatments that can burn gums and destroy teeth are being handed over in car parks and on doorsteps, a BBC investigation has found. Some gels, containing more than 500 times the legalContinue Reading
Younger generations of Americans are increasingly citing climate change as making them reticent to have children, Read MoreContinue Reading
‘Chances missed,’ says damning report into surgeon Phil Shepka, Cambridgeshire political reporter and Katy Prickett Orthopaedic Academy Kuldeep Stohr was investigated in relation to 700 planned and 100 emergency operations “A series of missed opportunities” have been revealed by an investigation into hundreds of children’s surgeries carried out by aContinue Reading
Germany has agreed to extend over $1 billion for Holocaust survivors’ home care globally for the coming year, Read MoreContinue Reading
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances…Read MoreContinue Reading
Skip to content Watch Live British Broadcasting Corporation Home News Sport Business Innovation Culture Arts Travel Earth Audio Video Live Documentaries Watch Live Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds. 3 hours ago Cosmetics Health, from the BBC Read MoreContinue Reading
Seaweed has been farmed off Zanzibar for decades, but there is a new boom underway for global industries like cosmetics, Read MoreContinue Reading