Category: Health

The bladder is easy to overlook – until it starts causing trouble. This small, balloon-like organ in the lower urinary tract quietly stores and releases urine, helping the body eliminate waste and maintain fluid balance. But just like your heart or lungs, your bladder needs care. Neglect it and you risk discomfort, urinary tract infections […]

Actress, singer and makeup mogul Selena Gomez has been candid about her experience of living with lupus. Since 2015, Gomez has documented on social media and in interviews the effect the condition has had on her health. In 2017, the actress shared that she’d undergone a kidney transplant due to lupus-related organ damage. Then, earlier […]

“These life changing injuries account for one quarter of all reported injuries, of a total of over 167,300 people injured since October 2023,” said Rik Peeperkorn, WHO Representative in the West Bank and Gaza. Over 5,000 people have faced amputation and other severe injuries to arms, legs and the spinal cord. Briefing journalists in New […]

Further information Ofgem SIF: cycle three beta, summary of projects approved Round three, challenge three: unlocking energy system flexibility to accelerate electrification of heat Cooldown Cooldown will explore if space cooling can be harnessed for flexibility through trials of space cooling demand response across both commercial and residential archetypes. It aims to better understand customer […]

Being able to instantly and accurately predict the trajectory of a person’s health in the years to come has long been seen as the pinnacle of medicine. This kind of information would have a profound effect on healthcare systems as a whole – shifting care from treatment to prevention. According to the findings of a […]

And because healthcare spending is also under pressure around the world, it should be a priority to develop so-called combination vaccines, the panel insisted.  WHO immunisation chief Dr. Kate O’Brien, stressed that the combination MMR jab that protects against measles, mumps and rubella, is safe for children. ‘Significant risks’ “What is really critical is that rubella and measles […]

Dublin, 1 October 2025 — LaNua Medical, a University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out, has secured €6 million in funding under Ireland’s Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF) to accelerate development of its pioneering ECORE™ device, designed to modernise embolisation procedures. Embolisation is a minimally invasive technique used by surgeons and interventional radiologists to control blood flow […]

Um Muhammad al-Masri, displaced from the northern town of Beit Hanoun, never lets go of her asthma inhaler. She says she would die without it. Smoke fills her tent, where she runs a primitive furnace fuelled by trash. “I was prescribed medicine, but I couldn’t afford it, so UNRWA [the UN agency for Palestine refugees] […]

When her 11-year-old daughter, Noel-Dina, was struck by fever and unbearable abdominal pain, Oriata didn’t hesitate. She immediately took her child to the nearest hospital. “She couldn’t walk anymore because she was so weak. I had to carry her on my back. I was terribly worried and thought I was going to lose her,” said Oriata, […]