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First human case of Shamonda virus 2026-10-28 · 26m
Solving the mystery of allergies 2026-10-21 · 26m
What happens in the ovaries postmenopause? 2026-10-14 · 26m
Should we be worried about the plague? 2026-10-07 · 26m
Do men and women receive different medical treatment? 2026-09-30 · 26m
Could AI improve healthcare in low-income communities? 2026-09-23 · 27m
Expanding reproductive choice in women's sports 2026-09-16 · 26m
Addressing the risks of period pain in childhood 2026-09-09 · 26m
Vaccinating against skin cancer 2026-09-02 · 28m
Understanding OCD 2026-08-26 · 27m
The health threat of rising temperatures 2026-08-19 · 26m
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2026-08-12 · 26m
Why are some people microdosing weight loss drugs? 2026-08-05 · 27m
Steering in the right direction to road safety 2026-07-29 · 26m
USA military launches testosterone screening programme 2026-07-22 · 27m
HIV fears due to Niger’s anti-gay laws 2026-07-15 · 26m
Health challenges after Venezuela earthquakes 2026-07-08 · 26m
Ebola drug trials in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2026-07-01 · 26m
Lack of evidence most IVF ‘add-ons’ improve fertility 2026-06-24 · 26m
The global toll of food poisoning 2026-06-17 · 26m
How reading fiction impacts our mental health 2026-06-10 · 26m
Health at the football World Cup 2026-06-03 · 26m
Seafarer welfare in the Strait of Hormuz 2026-05-27 · 26m
Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2026-05-20 · 26m
Why renaming a health condition matters 2026-05-13 · 26m
Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship 2026-05-06 · 26m
Psychedelic drugs as treatment 2026-04-29 · 26m
Making surgery safer for infants 2026-04-22 · 26m
Risky requests for unvaccinated blood on the rise 2026-04-15 · 26m
How awe can boost your health 2026-04-08 · 26m
What next for sunscreen in Australia? 2026-04-01 · 26m
Antimicrobial resistance in conflict zones 2026-03-25 · 26m
Does your home country impact your cancer risk? 2026-03-18 · 26m
Using lasers to fight brain cancer 2026-03-11 · 27m
Do collagen supplements really do anything? 2026-03-04 · 26m
Could a single vaccine block nearly all viruses? 2026-02-25 · 26m
Surviving without lungs for 48 hours 2026-02-18 · 26m
Are statins safer than we thought? 2026-02-11 · 26m
Why do some people hoard? 2026-02-04 · 26m
South African coming-of-age initiations 2026-01-28 · 26m
Could the shingles vaccine really slow down the ageing process? 2026-01-21 · 27m
What effect does exercise really have on depression? 2026-01-14 · 26m
China’s latest bid to boost its birth rate 2026-01-07 · 26m
How can we eliminate malaria? 2025-12-31 · 27m
2025: A big year for tackling malaria 2025-12-24 · 26m
Behind the Huntington’s disease breakthrough 2025-12-17 · 27m
Shingles vaccine slows the progression of dementia 2025-12-10 · 26m
The risky use of skin lightening in children 2025-12-03 · 26m
Childhood hypertension becomes more common 2025-11-26 · 26m
The disappearing mid-life crisis 2025-11-19 · 27m
Canada loses measles elimination status 2025-11-12 · 26m
Cloud seeding to cut air pollution in Delhi 2025-11-05 · 26m
What surpassing 1.5°C means for global health 2025-10-29 · 26m
How impostors distort medical research 2025-10-22 · 26m
How to prioritise aid in Gaza 2025-10-15 · 26m
Immune system researchers win Nobel Prize 2025-10-08 · 27m
Creating human eggs from skin cells 2025-10-01 · 26m
Trump’s unproven claims on autism and paracetamol 2025-09-24 · 26m
More children are obese than underweight 2025-09-17 · 27m
The psychology of curiosity 2025-09-10 · 26m
Have we found a better alternative to aspirin? 2025-09-03 · 26m
A breakthrough in treating chronic pain 2025-08-27 · 27m
Using AI to discover new antibiotics 2025-08-20 · 26m
How plastic harms health 2025-08-13 · 26m
Malnutrition in Gaza 2025-08-06 · 27m
Making human blood deadly to mosquitoes 2025-07-30 · 27m
Do you really have a penicillin allergy? 2025-07-23 · 27m
HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir recommended by WHO 2025-07-16 · 27m
First malaria treatment approved for newborns 2025-07-09 · 27m
Can bacteria-eating viruses be used to fight superbugs? 2025-07-02 · 26m
Childhood vaccination coverage stalls worldwide 2025-06-25 · 26m
Future thinking 2025-06-18 · 26m
Mpox surging in Sierra Leone 2025-06-11 · 26m
Exercise and immunotherapy improving cancer outcomes 2025-06-04 · 26m
A new way to screen for cancer in dense breasts 2025-05-28 · 26m
A promising new antimalarial 2025-05-21 · 26m
Listening to your body's signals 2025-05-14 · 26m
Shingles vaccine lowers risk of heart disease 2025-05-07 · 26m
Mycetoma’s only research centre destroyed 2025-04-30 · 26m
WHO agrees to a pandemic treaty 2025-04-23 · 26m
Have we found an animal reservoir of mpox? 2025-04-16 · 26m
The Kidney Waiting Game 2025-04-09 · 26m
Zimbabwe government takes on ‘friendship benches’ 2025-04-02 · 26m
How do funding cuts feel? 2025-03-27 · 26m
Judge blocks further USAID shutdown 2025-03-19 · 26m
Measles spreads in the Americas 2025-03-12 · 26m
Ninety percent of USAID programs cut 2025-03-05 · 26m
Improving global encephalitis care 2025-02-26 · 26m
The global oxygen crisis 2025-02-19 · 26m
The psychology of nostalgia 2025-02-12 · 26m
Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness 2025-02-05 · 26m
USA issues stop-work order on global aid 2025-01-30 · 26m
A WHO without the United States 2025-01-22 · 26m
The toll of wildfires on health 2025-01-15 · 26m
Should we be worried about HMPV? 2025-01-08 · 26m
A Malawi ‘Spay Day’ 2025-01-01 · 27m
One Health in Malawi 2024-12-25 · 26m
2024 in global health: a review 2024-12-18 · 26m
Expanding the anti-malaria toolkit 2024-12-11 · 26m
Genetic risk of diabetes in South Asian populations 2024-12-04 · 26m
Health crisis in Sudan 2024-11-27 · 26m
Resistance to leading malaria drug 2024-11-20 · 26m
What a Trump presidency means for global health 2024-11-13 · 26m
Tuberculosis returns as top infectious disease 2024-11-06 · 26m
Weight loss gold rush 2024-10-30 · 26m
Organ transplant in HIV+ patients 2024-10-23 · 26m
Rapid malaria diagnoses 2024-10-16 · 26m
Micro RNA wins Nobel 2024-10-09 · 26m
Mpox widens its reach 2024-10-02 · 26m
Vector-borne diseases 2024-09-25 · 26m
Polio Vaccination in Afghanistan 2024-09-18 · 26m
Haiti: Healthcare in the Midst of Conflict 2024-09-11 · 26m
The race to distribute Mpox vaccines 2024-09-04 · 26m
Living with a new brain 2024-08-28 · 26m
The latest on the mpox public health emergency 2024-08-21 · 26m
Catching up with Covid 2024-08-14 · 26m
MPox outbreak worsens 2024-08-07 · 26m
World’s first Oropouche deaths in Brazil 2024-07-31 · 26m
Systemic racism in health care 2024-07-24 · 26m
Toxic positivity 2024-07-17 · 26m
Steps forward and back in the battle again HIV 2024-07-10 · 26m
Can light emitting bandages treat cancer? 2024-07-03 · 26m
New MPox strain in DRC 2024-06-26 · 26m
Why is exercise good for your mental health? 2024-06-19 · 27m
Is using the internet good for us? 2024-06-12 · 26m
New human cases of bird flu 2024-06-05 · 26m
How long will we live in future? 2024-05-29 · 27m
Medical Innovations 2024-05-22 · 26m
Whooping cough on the rise 2024-05-15 · 27m
Conflict's impact on a neglected disease 2024-05-08 · 26m
What’s happening with girls’ mental health? 2024-05-01 · 26m
Is turbulence injuring more and more flyers? 2024-04-24 · 26m
Nigeria rolls out world’s first 5-in-1 meningitis vaccine 2024-04-17 · 26m
How we hope 2024-04-10 · 26m
Puerto Rico declares dengue fever emergency 2024-04-03 · 26m
Pig kidney transplanted into patient 2024-03-27 · 27m
Should we stop talking about long Covid? 2024-03-20 · 27m
A promising new cancer treatment 2024-03-13 · 26m
One billion obese people 2024-03-06 · 26m
Junior doctors strike in South Korea 2024-02-28 · 26m
Global Trade v Health Equality 2024-02-21 · 26m
Dengue outbreak in Latin America 2024-02-14 · 26m
Getting vaccinations to remote South Sudan 2024-02-07 · 26m
Surviving Noma disease 2024-01-31 · 28m
Cape Verde eliminates malaria 2024-01-24 · 26m
Endurance 2024-01-17 · 26m
Are outcomes better with female surgeons? 2024-01-10 · 26m
2024 in global health 2024-01-03 · 26m
A year in health in review 2023-12-27 · 26m
When will we have an HIV vaccine? 2023-12-20 · 26m
Closer to a cure for morning sickness 2023-12-13 · 26m
How do we know when a mystery illness is serious? 2023-12-06 · 26m
New Zealand backtracks on smoking ban 2023-11-29 · 26m
Gene editing treatment approved for sickle cell 2023-11-22 · 26m
Vaccinating children against chickenpox 2023-11-15 · 26m
A drug to prevent breast cancer 2023-11-08 · 26m
Warnings over antibiotic resistance in children 2023-11-01 · 28m
A musician’s story of coping with schizophrenia 2023-10-25 · 26m
Cholera cases surge in Zimbabwe 2023-10-18 · 26m
US proposes world first policy to reduce STIs 2023-10-11 · 26m
Malaria vaccine backed by WHO 2023-10-04 · 26m
The deadly practice of gum lancing 2023-09-27 · 27m
Could global Aids program be cut? 2023-09-20 · 27m
Do men have a friendship problem? 2023-09-13 · 26m
Opioid overdose antidote made available in US 2023-09-06 · 26m
What happened to babies with Zika virus 2023-08-30 · 26m
Disgraced surgeon appeals prison sentence 2023-08-23 · 26m
Contaminated cough syrup found in Iraq 2023-08-16 · 26m
A closer look at leprosy 2023-08-09 · 26m
Henrietta Lacks’ family settle lawsuit 2023-08-02 · 26m
Playing catch up on childhood immunisations 2023-07-26 · 26m
A new era for Alzheimer’s drugs? 2023-07-19 · 26m
Sickle cell disease: Fighting for the future 2023-07-12 · 26m
Drumming for a healthy life 2023-07-05 · 26m
The future of HIV research in Africa 2023-06-28 · 28m
Healthcare under threat in Myanmar 2023-06-21 · 28m
A step closer to a Chikungunya vaccine 2023-06-14 · 26m
China's Covid-19 lockdown: What happened next? 2023-06-07 · 26m
Uganda's anti-gay law and healthcare 2023-05-31 · 27m
What can we do about back pain? 2023-05-24 · 27m
Home testing kits for disease screening 2023-05-17 · 27m
Giving small babies a better start 2023-05-10 · 26m
Keeping hospitals open in Khartoum 2023-05-03 · 27m
Why we need more black doctors 2023-04-26 · 27m
Malaria vaccines approved first in West Africa 2023-04-19 · 27m
New way of giving lifesaving drug in childbirth 2023-04-12 · 29m
Women aren’t being promoted in healthcare 2023-04-05 · 28m
Could armpit sweat help tackle anxiety? 2023-03-29 · 28m
How giving babies peanut butter could cut allergy 2023-03-22 · 28m
Obesity drug: New hope for weight loss? 2023-03-15 · 28m
How to cope with earthquake trauma 2023-03-08 · 28m
Vaccines: A tale of the unexpected 2023-03-01 · 28m
Supporting Ukrainian children 2023-02-22 · 26m
Biting back: The fight against snakebite 2023-02-15 · 28m
Can heat affect mental health? 2023-02-08 · 26m
Back from the brink 2023-02-01 · 26m
After the floods 2023-01-25 · 28m
The ‘Endo-Monster inside me’ 2023-01-18 · 28m
Family’s gene therapy journey 2023-01-11 · 28m
Regret 2023-01-04 · 26m
Can you knit away your worries? 2022-12-28 · 26m
Biggest health stories of the year 2022-12-21 · 28m
Liver drug could be repurposed for Covid 2022-12-14 · 27m
How words can save lives 2022-12-07 · 26m
'Historic' turning point for Alzheimer's 2022-11-30 · 26m
How to make surgery safer 2022-11-23 · 26m
Genetic disorders and US abortion bans 2022-11-16 · 26m
Psychological nudges for HIV treatment 2022-11-09 · 26m
Livers that live longer than we do 2022-11-02 · 26m
Long Covid – the latest 2022-10-26 · 26m
Women and children’s health hit by disasters and Covid 2022-10-19 · 26m
Can a new star system help us to eat healthily? 2022-10-12 · 26m
'Historic' claims for new Alzheimer’s drug 2022-10-05 · 28m
Floods spreading disease in Pakistan 2022-09-28 · 26m
Egypt’s hepatitis C success story 2022-09-21 · 26m
Malaria vaccine effective 2022-09-14 · 26m
China approves first inhaled Covid vaccine 2022-09-07 · 26m
Statins rarely cause muscle pain 2022-08-31 · 26m
Deaths cut with recommended Ebola treatments 2022-08-24 · 26m
Transplant hope as kidney blood groups swapped 2022-08-17 · 26m
“Virtual” hospital visits cut relatives’ distress 2022-08-10 · 26m
Can you be a kind boss? 2022-08-03 · 27m
Pure kindness 2022-07-27 · 26m
Marburg virus cases confirmed 2022-07-20 · 26m
New Covid booster recommendations 2022-07-13 · 27m
Handy third thumb 2022-07-06 · 26m
Polio misinformation 2022-06-29 · 27m
Poor Covid immunity after Omicron 2022-06-22 · 26m
Next generation Covid vaccines 2022-06-15 · 28m
What brain scans tell us 2022-06-08 · 26m
Monkeypox misinformation and stigma 2022-06-01 · 26m
Monkeypox in central Africa 2022-05-25 · 26m
Healthcare provision in North Korea 2022-05-18 · 26m
New trial results of a fourth Covid booster 2022-05-11 · 26m
Combined protection of Covid vaccination and prior infection 2022-05-04 · 26m
New Covid Research 2022-04-27 · 26m
Are we kinder to people like us? 2022-04-20 · 26m
More cases of Covid in Africa than official figures suggest 2022-04-06 · 26m
Treating stress and anxiety in Ukraine 2022-03-30 · 28m
What should Hong Kong do about Covid-19? 2022-03-23 · 33m
The kindness test: The results 2022-03-16 · 29m
How children think about maths and time 2022-03-10 · 26m
Helping children cope with anxiety about war in Ukraine 2022-03-03 · 27m
Why measles is sweeping through Afghanistan 2022-02-23 · 39m
Pig organs for transplant patients 2022-02-16 · 28m
Black women and breast cancer 2022-02-09 · 27m
Bringing death back into life 2022-02-02 · 26m
Gene therapy hope for sickle cell patients 2022-01-26 · 27m
Are people with asthma who exercise healthier? 2022-01-19 · 26m
Omicron set to infect half of Europe 2022-01-12 · 26m
Home working versus the office 2022-01-05 · 26m
Do our pets care about us? 2021-12-29 · 27m
New research on the Omicron variant 2021-12-22 · 27m
Omicron update 2021-12-15 · 26m
Omicron variant news 2021-12-08 · 26m
Omicron Covid variant – what do we know? 2021-12-01 · 26m
Covid cases across Europe 2021-11-24 · 27m
T-cell Covid protection before the pandemic 2021-11-17 · 26m
New antiviral pills to treat Covid 2021-11-10 · 26m
Hunt for rare resistance to SARS CoV-2 2021-11-03 · 26m
Mix and match Covid vaccines 2021-10-27 · 26m
New Covid vaccine 2021-10-20 · 27m
The legacy of Henrietta Lacks 2021-10-13 · 26m
New antiviral Covid pill 2021-10-06 · 29m
Reducing mental health stigma 2021-09-22 · 31m
Covid in Vietnam 2021-09-15 · 28m
Art, gardening and wellbeing during Covid 2021-09-08 · 28m
The Kindness Test 2021-09-01 · 33m
Antibody cocktails against Covid 2021-08-25 · 28m
The psychology of courage and bravery 2021-08-18 · 26m
Impact of wildfires 2021-08-11 · 32m
Twisties and sporting mental health 2021-08-04 · 26m
Covid vaccination in prisons 2021-07-28 · 26m
Could the flu vaccine protect against severe Covid-19? 2021-07-21 · 26m
Mental health recovery stories 2021-07-14 · 26m
Lambda variant of Sars-Cov-2 2021-07-07 · 27m
Mixing Covid vaccines 2021-06-30 · 26m
Tanzania joins Covax 2021-06-23 · 26m
New treatment for Covid 2021-06-16 · 26m
FDA approves new Alzheimer’s drug 2021-06-09 · 26m
Black Fungus epidemic in India 2021-06-02 · 26m
Is kindness contagious? 2021-05-26 · 26m
When to have your second vaccine dose? 2021-05-19 · 26m
Is BMI an outdated risk measure? 2021-05-12 · 26m
Tanzania's new Covid prevention measures 2021-05-05 · 27m
India’s Covid-19 surge 2021-04-28 · 26m
Medical mysteries with neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan 2021-04-21 · 33m
Chile’s vaccine roll out 2021-04-14 · 27m
Mental Health and the long term implications of Covid 2021-04-07 · 26m
Can we eradicate leprosy? 2021-04-01 · 26m
Covid vaccines for children 2021-03-31 · 26m
Working with disability 2021-03-26 · 26m
Can the common cold prevent Covid? 2021-03-24 · 26m
Combatting mental illness 2021-03-19 · 26m
Vaccine and blood clots 2021-03-17 · 26m
Covid-19 vaccination in Africa 2021-03-12 · 26m
Do vaccines cure Long Covid? 2021-03-10 · 26m
Modern medicine versus the spirits 2021-03-05 · 26m
Pregnancy and Covid-19 vaccination 2021-03-03 · 30m
Africa’s blood shortage 2021-02-26 · 26m
Long Covid: solving the mysteries 2021-02-24 · 36m
Sexual health, Covid-19 vaccines 2021-02-19 · 26m
Covid surge in Mozambique 2021-02-17 · 33m
Superbugs and superfoods 2021-02-15 · 26m
Covid vaccines: bad news, good news 2021-02-10 · 38m
Vaccinating Africa against Covid-19 2021-02-08 · 27m
Covid-19 vaccines prevent 100% of deaths 2021-02-03 · 33m
Brazilian city’s Covid crisis: ‘It’s like Hell’ 2021-01-27 · 38m
First days of India’s Covid vaccination programme 2021-01-20 · 36m
WHO warns against vaccine rollout unfairness 2021-01-13 · 34m
The first year of the pandemic 2021-01-06 · 39m
How children think about maths and time 2020-12-30 · 28m
Ambiguous loss: a different kind of grief 2020-12-23 · 26m
In Iran, one in five infected by coronavirus 2020-12-16 · 31m
Gene therapy for sickle cell disease 2020-12-09 · 36m
Milestone in HIV prevention for women 2020-12-02 · 35m
Another week, another Covid-19 vaccine success 2020-11-25 · 35m
Measles outbreak threat due to Covid 2020-11-18 · 36m
Covid vaccine ‘90% effective’ 2020-11-11 · 26m
Covid-19 vaccines: Unknowns and dilemmas 2020-11-04 · 35m
Covid-19 plasma therapy trial results ‘disappointing’ 2020-10-28 · 37m
Do the Covid-19 drugs work? 2020-10-21
Have you ever hugged your doctor? 2020-10-14
Touch Test results 2020-10-07
How long should Covid quarantine last? 2020-09-30 · 27m
The latest on global Coronavirus cases 2020-09-23 · 27m
Have we reached the peak of Wellness? 2020-09-16 · 26m
What is Wellness and does it make you healthy? 2020-09-09 · 26m
Covid-19 sniffer dogs being trained 2020-09-02 · 27m
Newborn deaths in US 2020-08-26 · 28m
Covid immunity clues from a fishing boat in the Pacific 2020-08-19 · 28m
Coronavirus update 2020-03-25 · 26m
Autism: the problems of fitting in 2019-07-31 · 33m
Lighting the brain after birth 2019-07-03 · 27m
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