health

Reading Time: < 1 minuteType 2 diabetes often goes undiagnosed for many years because the mechanism that drives it – high blood sugar levels  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minutereg Egg-freezing is experiencing a pandemic boost – with soaring numbers of women putting motherhood on ice during the Covid crisis.  Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVisceral fat, also known as belly fat, accumulates near important organs in the body, such as the liver and intestines. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGreater online protection for girls is urgently needed, say experts, after new analysis revealed that 84% of grooming offences recorded under a…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdults living with HIV and receiving treatment at 14 clinics in Washington, DC, were found to have a risk of anal carcinoma after…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHundreds of women are rushing to Tigray’s hospitals in northern Ethiopia for emergency contraception and HIV prevention drugs Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA report submitted to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and regional bodies shows the strain has 10 more mutations than found on…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn unidentified disease has killed one girl and left more than 30 pupils feeling ill at a Nigerian boarding school.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfrican swine fever is a viral disease that can be caught by pigs and wild boar.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAround 6,100 deaths among those aged 70 and over have been averted due to the Covid-19 vaccination programme so far, a new…