466 news posts in Health

Health

29 Jan 2026

Reducing drug deaths from novel psychoactive substances relies on foreign legislation, but here’s how it can be tackled closer to home

Guest editorial by Ric Treble and Caroline Copeland, authors of a new Frontiers in Pharmacology article that examined the impact of national and international legislation on the emergence of new psychoactive substances in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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19 Jan 2026

Decades of suffering: Long-term mental health outcomes of Kurdish chemical gas attacks

Researchers found exceptionally high levels of trauma among survivors of a notorious atrocity: the 1988 chemical attack on Halabja in Kurdistan.

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18 Dec 2025

Global food systems driving twin crises of obesity and global heating

A major review in Frontiers in Science highlights how tackling unsustainable food systems—reflected by our changing food environment—is urgent for both health and climate.

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16 Dec 2025

Sports injuries sustained during your period might be more severe

Professional female football players aren’t more likely to injure themselves during menstruation, but injuries that are sustained could be more disruptive, causing three times more days off the field

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15 Dec 2025

Cannabis derivatives could provide new ovarian cancer treatments

Lab studies find that a combination of THC and CBD kills ovarian cancer cells without harming healthy cells

Health

10 Dec 2025

Anxiety and insomnia may lower natural killer cell count, potentially repressing immune function

Women who suffer from anxiety symptoms may have fewer circulatory natural killer cells, while those reporting insomnia had fewer total natural killer cells, showing that these disorders could decrease immune response

Health

01 Dec 2025

Mini lung organoids made in bulk could help test personalized cancer treatments

Scientists find a simple, automated way of making lung organoids, which could help find new lung disease drugs and personalize patients’ treatments

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18 Nov 2025

Teeth of babies of stressed mothers come out earlier, suggests study

Infants of mothers with high levels of stress hormone age faster and typically have more teeth by six months of age

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11 Nov 2025

Vegan diet can halve your carbon footprint, study shows

Vegan diet cuts carbon emissions by 46% and land use by 33%, while delivering nearly all essential nutrients

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10 Nov 2025

Link found between chronic fatigue and abnormal breathing could lead to new treatments

New study finds that many people with chronic fatigue syndrome experience disordered breathing which may be worsening symptoms

Health

07 Nov 2025

How diabetes affects sleep patterns: here are five articles for World Diabetes Day

Over 800 million people globally have a type of diabetes, with numbers steadily rising. November 14 marks World Diabetes Day. We’re highlighting five recently published articles on aging and diabetes.

Health

30 Oct 2025

Scientists on ‘urgent’ quest to explain consciousness as AI gathers pace

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever.

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23 Oct 2025

Drug which stops tumors' blood supply could help kids with bone cancer live longer

Children with multi-metastatic Ewing’s sarcoma face very poor survival rates — now an early trial of pazopanib shows promise for helping them live longer, healthier lives

Health

21 Oct 2025

This is how happy we need to be to have lower chronic disease mortality risk

Researchers used data from 123 countries to identify a ‘happiness threshold’ beyond which nations’ non-communicable disease mortality rate decreases, making happiness a public health resource

Health

07 Oct 2025

AI and omics unlock personalized drugs and RNA therapies for heart disease

Reducing industrial animal use can help to shrink our carbon footprint and boost health—but doing so means we need nutritious meat alternatives that are also tasty and affordable.