health

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK retailers should sell fresh uncut fruit and vegetables without best before dates or plastic packaging to prevent 14 million shopping baskets…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, US, have developed a blood test that can detect early signs of…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA taskforce has been set up to tackle disparities in maternity care experienced by women belonging to ethnic minorities and those living…

Reading Time: < 1 minute  The NHS does not have the 6,000 staff needed to run its promised array of new testing centres designed to speed up…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGunshots are now the leading cause of death by trauma in the US and have overtaken car crashes for the first time…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA high street pricing war over lateral flow tests broke out today as Superdrug revealed it will undercut rival chain Boots by…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe first ever recording of a dying brain has provided an insight into what might happen in the moments before we die. …

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn extra blood test on suspected heart-attack patients could determine if they are at high risk of dying in the next three…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe U.S. is facing a ‘blood crisis’ during the COVID-19 pandemic, and some hospitals in Massachusetts are setting plans in place to start rationing if…