health

Reading Time: < 1 minuteChina has reported two deaths from avian flu after confirming five new cases of H5N6, with the World Health Organisation calling for ‘urgent’ action.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt just 13 years old, Emily Waldron is a poster girl for transgender children’s rights.   Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs he faced the multitude of news cameras and reporters during a 2015 press conference grappling with a potentially fatal cancer diagnosis,…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA nine-year-old African boy accidentally amputated part of his penis with a pestle and mortar while crushing vegetables. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlmost 300,000 people in the UK could have a potentially deadly heart valve disease – with close to 100,000 not even showing…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTumours could be almost completely eradicated by refining an existing cancer treatment, a study on mice suggests.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen a Colorado woman in need of a kidney transplant was denied the procedure last fall because she refused to get vaccinated against…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteChildren who grow up in poorer households show slower activity in key brain regions linked to both thinking and learning, a study has…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists have regrown the legs of frogs, helping the trailblazing amphibians to swim again, while giving hope to amputees that their limbs could…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMost women in England and Wales no longer have a child before they are 30, official figures show for the first time. …