Waes hael was an Anglo-Saxon greeting meaning be whole or be healthy. From this is derived the modern word health. Paul said ...

Chris was born in Middlesbrough on 11 November 1960, to Judith Ann and Donald Rigg, and grew up in Stockton-on-Tees. He ...

Napier attended Worksop College before winning a scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge, to read medicine. After ...

Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is ...

Experts are concerned by claims—including possible future treatments for autism and diabetes—made about the value of banking baby teeth. Emma Wilkinson reports Video 1 Journalist Emma Wilkinson joins ...

The New York City Health Department has reported five deaths and 108 confirmed cases of legionnaires’ disease, a type of pneumonia, since the outbreak in Harlem was identified on 25 July. It seems to ...

Symptoms should be prioritised ahead of testing A societal transformation of attitudes and beliefs surrounding menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) has outpaced provider education, leaving primary care ...

Maternity and neonatal care services are badly in need of an overhaul at national level to improve safety locally, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) has warned in a review. The ...

Health interventions can help remedy many of the hazards around us, whether disease, discomfort, uncertainty, or instability. Drugs for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have proved useful to ...

More than half a million people in Gaza are now “trapped in famine,” as food and clean water continue to be used as weapons of war as part of Israel’s “genocidal campaign,” aid agencies have said. The ...

The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has issued its own childhood vaccination schedule, including a recommendation for children to receive the covid-19 vaccine, in a major split with the US ...

The union representing UK physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) has said that hostility faced by some PAs from ...