Category: Health

An offer was made to avert the resident doctors’ strike but the union said it did not go far enough.

Smoking rates among adults have declined in Aotearoa New Zealand over recent decades, from 18% smoking regularly in 2011/12 to 8% in 2023/24.

Chronic stress is on the rise—the result of an evolutionary mismatch that our bodies and brains, adapted over hundreds of thousands of years to hunter-gatherer

Freyja Green died in March 2019 after a traumatic birth at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds.

If you’re getting a pattern of milder, recurring headaches here are four things you can do to help manage it.

A BBC investigation finds that a host of areas in England are closing waiting lists and others are rationing care.

“Why do immune cells that are supposed to eliminate viruses suddenly turn against our own body?”

In preclinical studies, researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, have tested a new combination therapy

The pursuit of a longer life may currently be trending for tech bros, but the notion of a fountain of youth, or even immortality, has

A recent study has established clear, practical cutoff points for body fat measurements that are strongly associated with physical performance of male professional soccer players.

Researchers have revealed that viral epidemic potential is not evenly distributed across bat lineages, with transmissibility, virulence, and death burden clustered in specific clades. The

Music can evoke powerful memories and offers a sense of normality for people dealing with illness or death.

Gaslighting, unmet needs, and a sense of being left behind—long COVID patients paint a bleak picture of their experiences with the Aotearoa New Zealand health

Menstrual health remains critically underprioritized in global research and programming, according to a new study titled “Attention to Menarche, Puberty Education, and Menstrual Health Monitoring