Category: Health

Sir Stephen Powis says points-based tool was drawn up should need to prioritise patients have arisen.

The Covid inquiry restarts its live hearings this week, after senior staff in the NHS revealed just how close some hospitals were to collapse

People affected by rare blood clots say they feel they have been airbrushed out of the pandemic.

UK health officials are encouraging gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men to be vaccinated.

With doctors returning to work after five-day walkout, is there an opportunity for talks to re-start?

The man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services has died in federal custody

The debate has sparked a wider dilemma about the broader purpose of welfare

Drinking a maximum of 3–4 cups of coffee a day may slow the “biological” aging of people with severe mental illness, by lengthening their telomeres—indicators

Fame itself may be a critical factor in shortening singers’ lives beyond the hazards of the job—at least those in the UK/Europe and North America—suggests

Former health secretary tells inquiry some healthcare settings did run out – “and it was awful”.

NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard says the decision, in July 2020, was very disappointing.

Lecanemab, sold under the name Leqembi, is a monoclonal antibody therapy for Alzheimer’s disease that clears toxic amyloid plaques and delays cognitive decline.

With aging, the intestine gradually loses its ability to regenerate after damage. An international research team involving the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann

An international research team led by scientists from Bern and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has identified a previously unknown function of the intestinal nervous system.