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A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by “la Caixa,” has estimated the disease burden for various environmental exposure factors among the child population of Europe, and once again highlights the risk posed by air pollution. The study calculates that every year exposure to particulate matter of less

Ebola virus particles (red) on a larger cell. Credit: NIAID The number of cases in a nearly eight-month-old epidemic of Ebola in eastern DR Congo now exceeds 1,000, almost two-thirds of whom have died, the health ministry said late Sunday. “The accumulated number of cases is 1,009,” of which 629 cases were fatal, it said.

Cancer diagnosis scandal: 17,000 Britons die needlessly every year due to delays in spotting the disease, experts warn Delays in diagnosis means the UK lags behind Europe on cancer survival rates Millions more people need to be sent for testing if Britain is to catch up  Yet GPs are being pressured to become ‘gatekeepers’ and

For the first time scientists have been able to put a figure on how many faces people actually know- a staggering 5,000 on average. The research team, from the University of York, tested study participants on how many faces they could recall from their personal lives and the media, as well as the number of

Thousands will be denied £19,000-a-year drug for multiple sclerosis Thousands will be denied £19,000-a-year drug for multiple sclerosis which could keep them out of a wheelchair because it’s too expensive for the NHS Ocrelizumab is the first-ever drug to effectively treat primary progressive MS But NHS rationing watchdog NICE said £9,600 price rag did not

An increased use of clot-busting medicines prevented 4,000 strokes in England between 2015 and 2016, according to new research. The drugs were given to patients who were suffering from an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation (AF) which can result in a five-fold increased risk of a stroke, compared to people who do not have the

Sophie Gray’s Instagram feed is a haven of body positivity and self acceptance, but it wasn’t always this way – the former personal trainer gained a ha-uge number of devoted fans posting #fitspo snaps and ripped ab selfies. And it was this evolution that saw her followers drop from 430,000 to 367,000. “This is not

Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons are forced to recall 200,000 bottles of supermarket own-brand child cough syrups over fears they contain MOULD Parents were urged to return any affected own-brand bottles by the MHRA Syrups sold at Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons are among those affected The MHRA warned a colouring agent in the syrups may

When Alok Narayan was training as an orthopedic surgeon, patients would fixate on his red, inflamed hands from eczema and ask, "Is it contagious?" It wasn't. But the questions, the pain, the discomfort and the relentless itchiness –  his eczema first appeared as spots on his face nine years ago, spread to his hands and

Mother with incurable breast cancer is forced to raise £1,000 each month for a drug not available on the NHS because she ‘is not ready’ to say goodbye to her three children Lesley Kennedy, of Belfast, is now taking palbociclib to keep her alive for longer It is hailed as the ‘closest thing to a

Some 15,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed in Brazil each year, and researchers have found that approximately 4 percent of these cases could be avoided by reducing overweight and obesity. The epidemiological study was conducted by scientists at the Preventive Medicine Department of the University of São Paulo’s Medical School (FM-USP) in Brazil in collaboration

Almost a quarter-of-a-million girls younger than five die in India every year due to neglect resulting from society’s preference for sons, a gender discrimination study found on Tuesday. This was over and above those aborted simply for being female, researchers wrote in The Lancet medical journal. “Gender-based discrimination towards girls doesn’t simply prevent them from

Aphrodisi-yuk: Dodgy oysters poison 12,000 Britons a year with more than two-thirds of the shellfish on sale infected with the contagious norovirus Nearly 12,000 people a year are being poisoned by eating contaminated oysters Scientists discovered that more than two-thirds of oysters on sale are infected  Oysters are causing about 11,800 cases of norovirus poisoning

Sunday Riley’s lactic acid treatment has racked up some serious anti-aging love. Each day brings with it another aging concern. Am I forgetful because I’m older, or have I always been this way? I can’t remember; ah, it must be old age! Perhaps more frequently on our (forgetful) minds than internal aging worries are the