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'I left a children's home – and was embraced by love'
"I had no-one else, so to feel part of a family after leaving care is making a huge difference." Poppie was 10 when she was placed in care after a breakdown in her relationship with her mother. She started living with…
Unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths annually, young children at highest risk
Children aged less than five years face almost three times the risk of illness from unsafe food than older children and adults, according to new estimates released today by the World Health Organization (WHO). Despite …
Ebola vaccine candidates being fast-tracked to target rare strain
Three vaccine candidates are being fast-tracked to target the Ebola species spreading in Central Africa. Big organizations and companies are behind the effort, but logistics are complicated.
Wellness influencers are promoting supplements of cow colostrum, the first milk that mammals produce after giving birth, for advancing immunity and a healthy g…
Tens of thousands more black men aged 45-74 are to be invited for prostate cancer checks as part of an ongoing trial in the UK to find better ways of testing f…
New cases of genital herpes are increasing in England, bucking an overall fall in sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the latest data shows. Nearly 29,000…
Brazilian health officials are investigating two suspected Ebola cases in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, potentially the country's first in over 20 years, due t…
Congo confirmed 282 Ebola cases (264 in Ituri province), with a rare strain having no approved vaccine, worsening due to violence and terrain. Only 45% of cont…
The midwife's notes were short and to the point. The three letters - "FOH" - that she had written on a whiteboard next to names of heavily pregnant women were…
A pill has been found to almost double the survival time for advanced pancreatic cancer patients, with experts describing the trial as a game changer. The dru…
Brazil quarantined two travelers with possible Ebola symptoms from Congo, one testing negative, while Congo’s outbreak exceeds 1,000 cases, raising global tran…
Simple checks are spotting young women with silent heart issues that puts them at risk of their heart stopping suddenly, known as sudden cardiac death (SCD), s…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and WHO are leading efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus, which lacks a licensed vaccine or…
Claude Lemieux, 3x Stanley Cup winner, will donate his brain to Boston University’s CTE Center to aid research on repeated head trauma. His donation highlights…
