(Photo Illustration by The Bulwark / Photos: Shutterstock) “WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE for a much better—if not the best—American health care system?” That was the question I posed to a large

The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence Want to speed up your recovery after an injury or a

A team of scientists has created a daily scalp hair growth serum, using a tropical plant-based extract, that has proven to regrow hair and improve hair thickness in just 56 days. The test enrolled 60

Liberian women are misusing antibiotics with catastrophic consequences for their health and the health of the country according to doctors. Credit: Gloria Wleh with New Narratives Summary: In a wide

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A new study conducted by the University of Southern California found that a group of 187 lung cancer patients under the age of 50, most of whom had never smoked, were found to have healthier-than-aver

Children aged 17 or younger in the UK will face a lifelong ban on buying cigarettes, as Parliament agrees on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill. Both the Commons and Lords have settled on a final draft of th

Antibiotics changed everything. They turned fatal infections into routine fixes and made modern surgery, cancer care, and premature infant survival possible. But the spell is breaking. Around the wor

A new study suggests a common weed killer may be linked to the mysterious global rise of young colorectal cancer. Loading audio narration... The first-of-its kind study published Tuesday in the jour

The vaccine uses the same mRNA technology used in current Covid jabs, with scientists saying this enables the vaccine to be created quickly and at scale, in the event of a pandemic.

In May 2025 another judgment was published where Albon's application for custody of two children was turned down. Mr Justice Poole said: "He seeks to control others to prove that he is right, to secur

Available for over a year Today we’re talking talc… that white powder that is sometimes found in make-up. There’s been a lot of chat recently about the safety of talc. So, in this episode we find out

Available for over a year Food Chain presenter Ruth Alexander was confident that she was eating a healthy diet, in particular, a diet that included enough fibre. But it turns out, like many of us, he

Available for over a year There have been nearly 200 cases of measles in the UK so far this year. Measles can be prevented with vaccines - but the proportion of children being immunised is declining

Available for over a year More than 30,000 people are being contacted in the Canterbury area regarding the outbreak of bacterial meningitis in Kent. Two people have died, and others are seriously ill

Available for over a year Little over a week on from the first meningitis cases in Canterbury, many crucial questions remain. So this week we're taking an in-depth look at those questions and what we

Available for over a year A new non-hormonal drug has been approved to treat menopausal hot flushes. It works by regulating the body's cooling signals and is now available on the NHS in England for t

In a letter to health managers, NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey said while it was still early days in the six-day strike, which began on Tuesday, the NHS was in "as good a place as we could

"It's the whole fundamental reasoning behind wanting to have this procedure, to allow me to get some of my health back - to allow me to get back into employment and get back into a productive lifestyl

And a former lion from Longleat is being immortalised by an inventor who has recreated her paw print in tyre form, which could help improve the grip of Nasa's rover vehicles that work on Mars.

Now that the latest doctors' strike has ended, some NHS trust leaders who have spoken to BBC News are reflecting again that the system has run more efficiently - with some saying it has been smoother

"This government is committed to learning the lessons of the Covid Inquiry - we are investing in and reforming the health service to make it fit for the future, so it's there for people when they need

There were long delays for Covid patients using the NHS and waiting for ambulances, it says, while some patients could not be admitted to intensive care despite their serious condition because of a la

Within months ministers said they would extend that to all health and care staff. But they scrapped that policy before it was introduced and revoked the mandate on care homes staff amid mounting evide

She said: "Some of these people we've met throughout this journey, and they're only here for a certain period of time, but we get so close to them throughout art and I feel like art is the kind of thi

"I wanted to tackle loneliness, and we feel like this group can do that. It embraces all people in the community. Whether you are new to the area [or] to the country, don't have many friends or have l

The team aims to find out how people are using the spaces and what it is about them that makes them feel better.

Here's why you might want to be rained on Humans are more sensitive to the smell of rain than sharks are to blood. And rain has some surprising benefits for our bodies too – especially when it comes

Writing to the charity in March, the MP said: "It is remarkable that a charity established to advocate for women's health would appoint a man, without female anatomy or experience of this disease, to

According to Endometriosis UK, one in 10 people have the condition but because of waiting times, it's more likely one in 7 - if not more - for people who do not realise they have it.

Evie does not want other women to experience the same loneliness she did and said "without systems being created like this and networks, it's never going to change".

Professor Deirdre Fowler, chief nurse and chief midwife at the trust, said: "We are really confident we have done what we need to do to really meet the standards we need."

He says if our urine is dark, in the general healthy population, we shouldn't panic that we haven't drunk enough - that is the kidney doing its job. It is reserving water in our body, he explains, and

But with a single pouch containing as much caffeine as two cups of regular coffee, it could be easy to take too much and get bad side effects, he says.

It is a live vaccine which means it contains a weakened version of the chickenpox virus. As such, it is not recommended for those with a compromised immune system because of an illness like HIV or as

O'Farrell said his weight loss with the drug was "almost instant" and that, as well as losing more than five stone (34kg) so far, he has more energy and has been able to exercise for the first time in