Category: Health

The disposable vape ban is designed to reduce environmental damage and protect children’s health.

As a study casts doubt on the daily steps maxim, we take a look at some other health benchmarks we’re often told to strive for.

Current cardiac screening tools used to prevent heart attacks fail to identify nearly half of the people who are actually at risk of having one

Improving diet and increasing physical activity levels together may be more effective at preventing weight gain—particularly harmful fat inside the abdomen—than just changing one of

The inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic has heard from politicians, civil servants, experts and bereaved families.

That Time of the Month with Leila Nathoo, Dr Nighat Arif and Dr Christine Ekechi

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is one of the leading causes of dementia worldwide, and currently has no definitive cure. Although antibody-based therapies

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have clarified how spermine – a small molecule that regulates many processes in the body’s cells – can

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the brains of mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease

In research, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are derived from skin, urine, or blood samples and developed into other cells, like heart tissue, that researchers

A landmark study has revealed that gluten sensitivity, which affects approximately 10 per cent of the global population, is not actually about gluten but part

Jules Fielder is using Instagram to raise awareness of lung cancer in young women.

The World Health Organization has declared Indonesia’s polio outbreak officially over following nearly three years of intensive response efforts

Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and Matt Hanock are all criticised for contributing to poor Covid decision-making.