Expectant mothers encouraged to use ‘vital’ NHS service
Kris HollandBBC News, East of EnglandGetty ImagesWomen across the East of England are now able to self-refer to their local ...
Skin Not Canvas: Deadly Sun Tattoo Craze
Health authorities in France have raised alarms about a dangerous new social media trend that promotes the creation of temporary ...
UK cases of mosquito-borne chikungunya virus more than double
There has been a significant increase in the number of UK cases of a mosquito-borne virus that can cause sudden ...
ADHD drugs reduce risk of criminal behaviour, drug abuse and accidents
Symptoms of ADHD can be managed with medicines, as well as through talking therapiesAlex Di Stasi/Shutterstock People with ADHD who ...
ADHD drugs have wider life benefits, study suggests
Philippa RoxbyHealth ReporterGetty ImagesDrug treatment can help people newly diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) to reduce their risk ...
Early ADHD Treatment Tied to Less Risk of Crime, Car Accidents
(MedPage Today) -- Drug treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was tied to reduced risks for a handful of dangerous ...
Quitting Smoking Tied to Better Odds of Recovery From Other Addictions
(MedPage Today) -- Smokers with substance use disorders (SUDs) who quit cigarettes were more likely to report recovery from their ...
‘Makes No Sense’: Experts Push Back On RFK Jr.’s Doubts About Hepatitis B Vaccine
(MedPage Today) -- Public health experts are pushing back against doubts and criticisms about the hepatitis B vaccine spread by ...
No Chemo Benefit in Older Women With High-Risk HR-Positive Breast Cancer
(MedPage Today) -- Older women with genomically high-risk hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer did not benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy, which ...
GLP-1 Drugs May Hold Benefit in Painful Skin Disease
(MedPage Today) -- Patients with hidradenitis suppurativa who started taking GLP-1 receptor agonists experienced reductions in a long list of ...
Want to Make America Healthy? Dump RFK Jr., New Public Health Group Says
(MedPage Today) -- As the U.S. awaits the release of the second report from the Trump administration's Make America Healthy ...
Early Treatment Shows Benefit in Infants With Presymptomatic Genetic Disease
(MedPage Today) -- Infants up to 6 weeks old with genetically diagnosed presymptomatic spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treated with oral ...
Why Many Americans Are Rethinking Alcohol, According to a New Gallup Poll
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fewer Americans are reporting that they drink alcohol amid a growing belief that even ...
Jacket that gets thinner when you sweat could help avoid overheating
The jacket is thicker when dry (left) and thinner when moist (right)Xiaofeng Jiang/Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2023 If ...
mRNA drugs could protect against almost any kind of viral infection
An illustration of a protein complex binding to DNA in the production of the key signalling molecule interferonMartin McCarthy/Getty Images ...
Patient Falls for Her Psychiatrist; Novel Insomnia Drug; Purpose Anxiety?
(MedPage Today) -- In a now-viral, 34-part TikTok series, a woman detailed how she fell in love with her psychiatrist. ...
Bill McKibben makes a powerful pitch for solar in optimistic new book
A solar future for this Sichuan pepper field in Bijie, ChinaSTR/AFP via Getty Images Here Comes the Sun(Bill McKibben W. W. Norton, UK, 16 ...
How the World Flows: This book could convince you to become an engineer
Microfluidics makes it possible for devices like this chip to simulate biological organsWLADIMIR BULGAR/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY How the World Flows(Albert Folch, ...
Stark images show water’s role in human strife and survival
Wellcome Collection A man gazes at the water level in a well in Morocco as the dunes of the Sahara ...
Trees have a microbiome inside them? This is both obvious and profound
“Inside the wood of each tree on Earth are vast numbers of microorganisms, many of them new to science”Shutterstock/Emvat Mosakovskis ...
