Category: Health

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has stirred debate by calling the familiar five-a-day message “a lie”. Speaking to the Times, he argued that the real health benefits of fruit and vegetables only start to add up at seven, eight or even 11 portions a day. He’s not wrong that more is better. Research shows us that […]

📍 Dublin, Ireland — Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has signaled that expanding healthcare infrastructure will take precedence over recruitment in the upcoming national budget. Speaking ahead of Budget 2025, she emphasized that increasing physical capacity is essential to improving surgical services and reducing waiting lists. “What we need is extra capacity, we need […]

Speaking from the capital Kyiv which was rocked by some of the deadliest attacks of the war last week – and following a visit to the frontline region of Sumy – UN Women’s Representative in Ukraine Sabine Freizer Gunes described to UN News’s Nathalie Minard both the emotional exhaustion and the resilience she had witnessed. The […]

Disorders such as anxiety and depression are exacting a heavy toll on individuals, families and economies, yet most countries are failing to provide adequate support. Mental health problems are widespread across every society and age group and remain the second leading cause of long-term disability. They drive up healthcare costs for families and governments while […]

Many cat owners don’t realise that just like humans, cats can suffer from dementia. A recent paper has even found many similarities between feline and human dementia, finding that cognitive impairment may develop in similar ways. Some of the symptoms of dementia in cats are even similar to what we might see in humans – […]

When we first set out to explore autistic experiences of pregnancy, another topic kept surfacing in the personal accounts we recieved: menopause. Again and again, autistic people described how difficult this life stage had been and how little support they had received. So we expanded our focus and our new review reveals a stark reality. […]

Cancer kills one in five people globally. Yet, except for a one-off increase in 2021, the flow of money for cancer research has trended downward every year since 2016. Our new analysis of more than 100,000 public and philanthropic grants reveals where research funding is being allocated. There are very likely to be reductions in […]

Autism is often thought of as a childhood condition, but this is far from true. Autism is a lifelong condition – and most autistic people are adults. Yet less than 1% of autism research has focused on older autistic people. This means we know very little about the needs of autistic people are they grow […]

A new drug, baxdrostat, has demonstrated significant effectiveness in lowering blood pressure among patients with treatment-resistant hypertension, according to results from the Phase III BaxHTN clinical trial. The study, involving 796 participants across multiple countries, found that patients receiving baxdrostat experienced a reduction in systolic blood pressure of approximately 9–10 mmHg more than those on […]

Distribution of gifts to cancer patients on International Childhood Cancer Day 2025. Photo: WHO 1 September 2025 – Globally, 400 000 children are diagnosed with cancer annually, which means 3 children are diagnosed with cancer every 4 minutes. Of these cases, 90% occur in low- and middle-income countries, where only a fifth of diagnosed children survive. In […]