Health

The NHS has been directing pregnant women to a website that connected them to the Free Birth Society, an organisation that has been linked to baby deaths around the world after promoting labour without medical support. A number of NHS trusts are directing women who are contemplating a “free birth” to a charity website that until Monday referred to FBS ...

Gabriela was trying to lose the weight she’d gained during the Covid pandemic. But a few stubborn kilos just wouldn’t budge. She had tried everything, she says. Going on a stricter diet; being more consistent with her high-intensity workouts six days a week. But “nothing worked” for the Brazilian lawyer who weighed 76kg (11st 13lb) and is 1.69m tall (5ft ...

Prostate cancer screening should not be made available to the vast majority of men across the UK, a panel of expert government health advisers has said, to the “deep disappointment” of several charities and campaigners. The UK National Screening Committee (UKNSC) has instead recommended that there should be a targeted screening programme for men with a confirmed BRCA1 or BRCA2 ...

Fascia, the connective tissue that holds together the body’s internal structure, really hasn’t spent all that long in the limelight. Anatomists have known about its existence since before the Hippocratic oath was a thing, but until the 1980s it was routinely tossed in the bin during human dissections, regarded as little more than the wrapping that gets in the way ...

An NHS doctor accused of antisemitism has been suspended for 15 months pending an investigation, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) in the UK has ruled. The General Medical Council (GMC) is investigating Dr Rahmeh Aladwan over posts and comments made across various social media platforms after several complaints, including from the Jewish Medical Association UK and the Campaign Against ...

Brazilian authorities on Wednesday approved the world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine, which they hailed as a “historic” achievement as cases of the mosquito-borne disease soar globally due to rising temperatures. Dengue, known for intense flu-like symptoms, crushing fatigue and body aches, reached record global levels in 2024 and researchers have attributed its spread to climate change. Brazil’s health regulatory agency ...

The first time I started dancing at home was a happy accident. I’d just had a terse conversation with an ex, and my body was reacting in its usual way: racing heart, quivering breath and trembling fingers. I needed to calm down. Looking around for quick fixes in my flat – my bed, some stale chocolate digestives and a packet ...

A new national surveillance report has revealed that antibiotics are failing in 41 percent of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in Bangladesh. The findings were released on Monday as the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) formally published the National AMR Surveillance Report 2025. According to the report, misuse and uncontrolled consumption of antibiotics, along with ...

Former Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer. Lord Cameron, 59, told the Times newspaper his wife had insisted he go for a check-up after they listened to a BBC radio interview with entrepreneur Nick Jones, who was campaigning for more men to be tested after being diagnosed himself. The Tory peer had a ...

International Congress on Innovations and applications of artificial intelligence in modern dentistry held The first-ever International Scientific Congress titled Revolutionizing Dentistry with AI: Innovations and Insights” was held on Sunday (23 November). The event took place at the 3D Hall of KIB in Farmgate, Dhaka, organized by Social Healthcare Foundation Bangladesh with the support of Mandy Dental College and Hospital. ...