Browsing: Medical

People who take a mobile phone to the loo should keep to a two TikTok limit, according to doctors who found that toilet scrollers are more…

A three-minute brainwave test can detect memory problems linked to Alzheimer’s disease long before people are typically diagnosed, raising hopes that the approach could help identify…

Doubts have surfaced over Kemi Badenoch’s claim to have been offered a place at a prestigious US medical school at 16, with admissions staff unable to…

In his first term, President Donald Trump touted the “medical miracle” of the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine that he helped deliver to market through the unprecedented public-private…

Surgeons have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain dead human recipient for the first time and found it functioned for nine…

An influential US medical journal is rejecting a call from the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to retract…

Dominic Calvert-Lewin is undergoing a medical at Leeds with a view to sealing a free transfer to the promoted Premier League club.The 28-year-old centre-forward has been…

Jonathan CoffeyBBC PanoramaBBCWhen it comes to the Lucy Letby case, there are two parallel universes. In one, the question of her guilt is settled. She is…

People aged over 75 are being excluded from health research due to arbitrary age cut-offs, potentially stalling the development of life-saving treatments, leading charities and research…

As human-spaceflight missions grow longer and travel farther from Earth, keeping crews healthy gets more challenging. Astronauts on the International Space Station can depend on real-time…