The national rollout of screening for the rare genetic condition spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in newborns is to begin earlier…
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A social media user’s painful medical ordeal has sparked an online debate about underwear choices, with thongs being blamed by…
A decision by the UK government to end its financial support for the global fight against polio has placed decades…
Colon cancer, once firmly a disease of older age, is now striking a growing number of younger adults, a quiet…
In a triumphant return to the stage she once dominated, Céline Dion has announced a series of comeback concerts in…
The World Health Organization is facing the loss of more than a quarter of its staff by the end of…
A sudden, sharp pain in the rear, intense enough to make you gasp, is medically termed ‘lightning bum’. It is…
A California dairy, already under scrutiny for spreading a fatal avian flu to household cats, is now implicated in a…
The detection of poliovirus in London’s sewage for the second time this year has emerged just days before the government…
Nearly 6,000 men have now booked appointments to be tested as part of a major new prostate cancer initiative rolling…