What is methanol and how does it affect the body?
Getty Images The UK Foreign Office advises travellers: “Take care if offered, particularly for free, or when buying spirit-based drinks. If labels, smell or taste seem wrong then do not…
Human Cell Atlas project transforms understanding of human body
Getty Images An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we…
Alcohol-mimicking drug found to ease voice spasm that RFK Jr has
Getty Images People with laryngeal dystonia (LD), a condition that makes the voice sound strained and hoarse, might benefit from a drug already used to treat a sleep disorder, researchers…
Women plan UK legal action over talc cancer claims
BBC Cassandra Wardle is one of hundreds of women part of the group action against Johnson & Johnson Hundreds of women in the UK are planning to take on one…
Durham biker crash victim’s wife Samantha tells of ‘pain’
Family photo Widow Samantha Morris says she feels “pain and sadness” being a single parent to three children The wife of a motorcyclist who could have been saved after a…
Surgeries on ‘precipice’ ahead of tax hike, says GP
BBC Dr Andrew Purbrick, who represents thousands of GPs in the south of England, says surgeries are facing a “funding crisis” GP practices could be pushed “over the edge” by…
Streeting orders review to end ‘toxic row’
Getty Images The government has ordered a review of physician associates (PA) and anaesthesia associates (AA) in England after mounting concern about their use in the NHS. The number of…
Coroner says action needed over contaminated baby feed deaths
A senior coroner has warned that more babies could die unless “action is taken”, following the deaths of three infants who had received contaminated feed while being cared for in…
US reports first case of Clade I mpox in California
California has reported the first US case of mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – that is part of a new outbreak. The state’s department of health, the CDPH, said…
Betsi move some vascular surgeries to England after ‘incident’
Getty Images A major surgery which between 10 and 15 patients have each year at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd will no longer take place at the hospital Some major operations will…