FRIDAY, 20 MARCH 2026, 19:24
The agency is proposing allowing other tastes for vapes, like mint, coffees, spices or tea, to appeal to adults. At the same time, illicit candy-flavored types aimed at teenagers have flooded the market.
Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab accidents.
Four days after giving birth, Lizzy Berryman’s psychosis forced her to be taken from York to Derby for specialist care.
The health service said young people who already receive the drugs will continue to do so.
Dr. Vinay Prasad drew criticism for decisions that overrode agency scientists and rejected potential drugs.
It comes after a Lords standards probe into his contacts with ministers and advisers during the pandemic.
Demand for weight-loss drugs is surging in SA, with Mounjaro set to exceed R1.3bn in sales as Aspen eyes expansion into Africa.
She developed Europe’s biggest emporium of erotic goods and opened a three-story sex museum in Germany.
A health campaigner says women’s relationship to pain is shaped by the way they grow up with it as a part of their lives.
Parliament is debating how vapes and smokeless products should be regulated under South Africa’s proposed new tobacco control law.
England’s top doctor says the drugs should be for a minority and more effort is needed to prevent obesity in the first place.
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Ami Clarke shares her experience of living with endometriosis.
A woman arrives back in Plymouth in time to begin her chemotherapy treatment.
Health Connections is to renovate six floors of its new base as spaces for people to come together.
The milestone procedure went well, with patient Paul Buxton saying he felt “fantastic”.
A new analysis of prescription data found that emergency room orders for acetaminophen for pregnant women fell for weeks after the federal warning.
New tests are being developed to spot early signs of breast cancer and endometriosis in urine.
The chair of the independent commission on social care recommends introducing a full-time dementia tsar, and new fast-track passport system for people diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND).
“People have horrendous periods and think they just have to live with it… [but] you don’t,” she says.