Category: Health

Laws in the Isle of Man to let terminally ill adults end their own lives are in the last stages of debate.

Increasing numbers of young people are using the drug, experts say. The health impacts can be catastrophic.

The BBC speaks to six people about their first cervical screening, and what they wish they’d known beforehand.

Doctors say Tatiana Schlossberg’s struggle – even with the best care as a member of a prominent family – emphasises the need for more research.

Nearly 10% of U.S. adults say they have been diagnosed with cancer, the highest figure since Gallup began tracking the disease over 17 years.

Some tumors are almost impossible to treat. That’s especially true for carcinomas, which don’t behave like other malignancies.

Rutgers neuroscientist Peng Jiang was visiting his hometown of Qianshan, a city in China’s Anhui province, when a neighbor came to his parents’ house with

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin

Amid concerns about the simultaneous spread of multiple respiratory diseases, such as colds and influenza, with the change of seasons in current times, a recent

With victims numbering in the millions, malaria is an infectious disease caused by the bite of a mosquito carrying the malaria parasite.

There were initial hopes that the drug in weight loss jab Wegovy could slow progression of dementia.

Pelvic organ prolapse (POP), a condition whose development is shaped by both genetic and clinical risk factors, significantly impairs women’s quality of life, yet genetic

Eating a vegan diet increases consumption of plant-based foods-including those defined as “unhealthy” by the plant-based diet index-leading to greater weight loss than the Mediterranean

Detailed mapping of CD4⁺ T cells from children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has revealed distinct immune cell subsets with likely roles in disease pathogenesis