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Esther Addley reports on a class action suit of more than 3,000 cancer survivors and their loved ones against Johnson & Johnson
‘I remember lying on a bed,’ says Sue Rizello of her earliest memory nearly 60 years ago, ‘with my mum leaning over me and using baby powder on me.’
Baby powder, or, more specifically, the talcum powder sold by pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, is ‘one of...
Three-year study will test biopsy analysis tool shown in trials to identify men likely to benefit from certain drugs
A tool that uses artificial intelligence to help diagnose men with prostate cancer and guide decisions about treatment is to be tested in NHS hospitals, researchers have announced.
The £1.9m Vanguard Path study, funded by Prostate Cancer UK and led by researchers at the...
Xi Jinping gave two cellphones to South Korea’s president, who asked how secure they were. “You can check if there’s a backdoor,” he said with a laugh.
Researchers tracking large cohorts are discovering the effects of sleep, light and therapy on people impacted by winter’s arrival
For some, the darkening days of autumn bring more than the annual ritual of reviving woolly jumpers and turning on the central heating. As the evenings close in and the mornings grow murky, energy ebbs and a heavy sadness settles in.
Although seasonal affective...
The BBC’s Tom Gerken plays the new version of the sports management video game after it faced delays and cancellations.
Risk to general public is low but cases in California suggest virus is spreading undetected in some communities
A newer variant of mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, is now spreading through some communities in the US and Europe.
The risk to the general public is low, but community transmission in new places signals greater challenges for public health to detect cases and stop the...
Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain
Britain is one of the least “nature connected” nations in the world, according to the first ever global study of how people relate to the natural world.
Britain ranks 55th out of 61 countries in the study of 57,000 people, which looks at how attitudes towards nature are shaped by social,...
Huge increase in tree-killing disease is result of climate crisis, experts say
A golden mushroom that grows in clusters and can attack and kill trees has increased by 200% in the UK in a year because of the hot summer and damp autumn.
Recorded sightings of honey fungus are up by almost 200% compared with the same period last year, according to iNaturalist.
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Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.
“We are living through a dramatic contraction in the access that teenagers have to technology online.”
Jensen Huang, the Nvidia chief executive, and the leaders of Samsung and Hyundai staged a regular-folks outing in Seoul before announcing a business deal.
Despite the risk of a bubble, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon plan to spend billions more on artificial intelligence than they already do.
Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world
Human bodies are like cities, teeming with microcitizens – vast communities of viruses, fungi and bacteria that live all over our skin and inside us. Unsung public servants help us digest food, regulate our immune system,...
Nasa chief Sean Duffy confirms 1969 landing was indeed real after US celebrity on TV show says ‘I think it was fake’
Nasa has rejected comments made by Kim Kardashian about the 1969 moon landing and confirmed that it did, in fact, happen.
During Thursday’s episode of The Kardashians, the Skims founder questioned whether the space mission ever took place while noting her interest in conspiracy...
The site tells BBC News it believes people are viewing riskier sites – but they may just be using VPNs.
After unexpectedly strong sales and profits across its consumer and cloud businesses, the tech giant said another strong quarter might be ahead.
The company’s revenue rose to above $100 billion in the quarter for the first time and profit soared 86 percent.
Analysis of Montana fossils shows the battling predator was a fully grown Nanotyrannus, not a young T rex
The fossilised remains of two dinosaurs locked in combat have unleashed a fresh drama, suggesting diminutive specimens thought to be teenagers of Tyrannosaurus rex could instead belong to separate, smaller species.
The “duelling dinosaurs” fossil, which reveals a triceratops in battle...
Europe’s largest automaker said that a shortage of semiconductors could further hurt productivity.
Virgin Media O2 has partnered with Elon Musk firm Starlink to offer the service.
The pricing standoff between government and industry has stalled research and put thousands of jobs at risk
‘We want to see more investment flow to Britain,” the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, urged of big pharmaceutical companies this month, as she indicated that the government was willing to increase the price it pays for NHS drugs. Ministers are likely to announce a rethink on pricing soon,...