Category Health & Wellness

I am 72 years old and do not watch TV. I listen to LBC radio all day and read books and magazines. I still have access to my late husband’s iPlayer account and, after logging in at my neighbour’s house,…

(MedPage Today) — Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general said Tuesday. Thomas… Source link

Jamie Foxx is currently recovering from an unspecified medical emergency that reportedly hospitalized him. On Wednesday, Corinne Foxx, the daughter of the Oscar-winning actor, posted a statement to Instagram on behalf of the Foxx family that said he had “experienced…

When congressional Republicans in 2017 pushed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and slash Medicaid, dozens of physician groups, patient advocates, hospitals, and others rallied to defend the law and the safety-net program. Eight years later, two industry groups have…

Later this year, a handful of people with a rare eye condition will receive a novel injection that is designed to quite literally turn back time.  Nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy—known as NAION—can cause sudden blindness when blood flow to…

Once upon a time, a strong, attractive hero lost one or both of his parents. He then overcame a series of obstacles and faced off against a monster that had terrorised his community. The hero vanquished the monster and was…

If you were to ask us where our mind goes when you say “Hailey Bieber,” we’d either think of her beauty brand Rhode (in the last couple weeks, we’ve been especially stuck on her new lip liners), or her ever-iconic…

Ten people have died from cancer and up to 10 more have been been diagnosed with the disease after a blunder meant they were not invited to NHS screening programmes. Health officials failed to invite more than 5,000 patients in…

BENGALURU, India — Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found. Switzerland-based air quality monitoring database IQAir analyzed data from 40,000 air quality monitoring stations in 138…

Philippa Roxby Health reporter Getty Images People who give blood regularly are more likely to have genetic changes in their blood that could cut the risk of cancer developing, a study suggests. The researchers, from the Francis Crick Institute, say…