After a fourth case of meningitis B has been confirmed in Reading, BBC South's health correspondent Alastair Fee shares what you need to know. Source link : https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cvgz1pl3x73o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss Author :...

Half a million children and young people have attended A&E in mental health crisis since 2019, new RCN research shows. Press Association Source link : https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/500-000-children-mental-health-crisis-turn-a-e-2026a1000ged?src=rss Author : Publish date...

An aerial view of Stonehenge (not taken by James)Russell Brown/Alamy The easiest and quickest way to see Stonehenge is to join the traffic jam of cars on the UK’s A303...

Photos reveal unexpected details from the world's first atomic test | New Scientist Close Close Source link : https://www.newscientist.com/article/2526891-photos-reveal-unexpected-details-from-the-worlds-first-atomic-test/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Author : Publish date : 2026-05-20 18:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content...

If you have even a passing interest in your health, you can’t spend long on social media before the algorithm brings you into contact with the infamous Q-word. Are you...

A honeybee flies with pollen balls stored in pollen baskets on its legsJennie Durant Bitter HoneyJennie DurantPrinceton University Press (US, 26 May; UK, 28 July) Industrial farming, at its worst,...

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Caesar (Andy Serkis) leads the fight in Rise of the Planet of the Apes20thC.Fox/Everett/Shutterstock Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and its sequelsOn demand AS A sci-fi fan, you...

CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP/Alamy What do researchers of artificial intelligence, medicine and climate change have in common? They could all learn from the story of Rumpelstiltskin. As the fairy tale teaches us,...

Patients presenting with foreign bodies are on the rise; most impactions pass on their own, but clinicians should be ready to act fast if necessary. Medscape Medical News Source link...

A transbronchial lung biopsy cryoprobe 1.1 mm in diameter outperformed standard 2.0-mm forceps for diagnostic yield, the FROSTBITE-2 randomized trial showed. Diagnostic yield came in nearly 10 percentage points higher...

The Carbfix facility in IcelandOksana Baliukeviciene/Alamy We desperately need clean hydrogen for processes that cannot be powered by renewable electricity – and it might be possible to generate vast quantities...

The Carbfix facility in IcelandOksana Baliukeviciene/Alamy We desperately need clean hydrogen for processes that cannot be powered by renewable electricity – and it might be possible to generate vast quantities...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the chair and vice chair of the influential task force that decides what preventive medical care should be ⁠provided at no... Reuters...

A major complication of transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) could be prevented using a newer percutaneous leaflet modification technique, according to registry data. Early adopters of the so-called "BATMAN" (balloon-assisted...

The CDC's temporary leader ordered two Americans to quarantine at a Nebraska hospital following their high-risk hantavirus exposures on an outbreak-hit cruise ship. Eighteen recently repatriated U.S. passengers from the...

If you're anything like me, you've been inundated recently with stories of mass shootings. On April 19, for instance, a Louisiana man entered a house in the middle of the...

Three top officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases were given a choice between reassignment outside the institute or resignation. This now means that eight of 10...

First responders fighting Democratic Republic of Congo's 17th Ebola outbreak say even basic supplies are scarce - from pain medicine, to motorbikes for contact tracing and... Reuters Health Information Source...

Intravascular lithotripsy was noninferior to rotational atherectomy for preparing severely calcified coronary lesions for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to a head-to-head trial. On optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI), acute...