Category: Health

Walk through any supermarket at this time of year and you’ll see shelves stacked with Halloween treats. Halloween and candy go hand in hand but what does all that sugar really mean for children? The World Health Organization recommends that “free sugars” (sugar that is added to foods, plus sugars naturally present in honey, syrups […]

When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated organ transplants might make a person “get younger” and even live to 150. The remark was widely dismissed as science fiction. Yet it coincided with genuine scientific progress. Just days earlier, researchers had identified a molecular “switch” […]

Trick or treat? Something I won’t be hearing at my own door this Halloween. Myself and the other misers of our village will once again be shunning anyone ringing the bell in search of sugar. Apparently, placing a pumpkin outside your house is the standard invitation to call — as much effort as buying the […]

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the halt in hostilities but said “the crisis is far from over and the needs are immense.” He highlighted the toll of months of conflict: more than 170,000 people injured –including 5,000 amputees and 3,600 people with severe burns. At least 42,000 require long-term rehabilitation, and 4,000 women give birth each […]

SEATTLE, Oct. 23, 2025 — A new analysis from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), published in The Lancet, shows that ischemic heart disease has once again overtaken COVID-19 as the leading global cause of death. The findings highlight the enduring toll of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and […]

DUBLIN, Oct. 23, 2025 — Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD has endorsed the publication of new guidance designed to make the cost of medicines and pharmacy services more transparent for patients. The framework, developed by the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI), will require pharmacies to clearly display service fees and provide detailed receipts […]

BOSTON, Oct. 23, 2025 — The sixth edition of the State of Global Air (SoGA) report, published by the Health Effects Institute (HEI) in collaboration with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the NCD Alliance, reveals that air pollution remains the leading environmental risk factor for global mortality, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations […]

UKRI is asking its communities to share their views by taking part in our 2025 stakeholder perspectives survey. The perspectives survey is now in its third year. It provides valuable insight to UKRI on where we are performing well and how we can improve to better meet the needs of our external stakeholders. All types […]

A woman’s fertility usually begins to decline in her mid-30s. This means the chances of becoming pregnant decreases drastically each month. For a long time, scientists thought that the key culprit behind this rapid decline in fertility was egg quality. This is understandable, since women are born with all of the eggs they will ever […]

Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today’s therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy remain vital tools, yet they often damage healthy cells alongside cancerous ones, leaving patients exhausted and vulnerable to long-term side effects. Around the world, researchers are searching […]