Unregulated ‘innovation’: India’s medicine problem
If India is the pharmacy of the world, it’s not doing a good job of providing safe products. A large...
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Bird flu has made a comeback, driving up prices for holiday turkeys
Healthy turkeys on a farm in West Newfield, Maine. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald via Getty ImagesAn outbreak of highly...
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Doctors often aren’t trained on the preventive health care needs of gender-diverse people – as a result, many patients don’t get the care they need
Gender-diverse adults have a harder time getting effective primary and preventive health care than their nontransgender counterparts. Peter Dazeley/The Image...
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We’ve been studying the same people for 76 years – this is what we’ve found out about Alzheimer’s disease
This article is part of the Insight’s Uncharted Brain series. In March 1946, just months after the end of the...
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XBB and BQ.1: what we know about these two omicron ‘cousins’
Mahir KART/ShutterstockIn late October, the UK Health Security Agency assigned variant designations to two new omicron “grandchildren”: BQ.1 and XBB....
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Menopause: HRT linked to depression – here’s what the evidence actually says
Women use HRT to manage a variety of menopause symptoms. Image Point Fr/ ShutterstockA growing number of women are turning...
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High blood pressure linked to 22% greater risk of severe COVID – new research
pikselstock/ShutterstockFrom early on in the pandemic it was apparent that older adults and those with underlying health problems were more...
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Concussions can cause disruptions to everyday life in both the short and long term – a neurophysiologist explains what to watch for
Sleep plays a critically important role in the recovery process in the days following a concussion. nicolamargaret/E+ via Getty ImagesThe...
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8 billion people: Four ways climate change and population growth combine to threaten public health, with global consequences
Infectious diseases like COVID-19 top the list of health concerns. Marco Longari/AFP via Getty ImagesThere are questions that worry me...
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Three ways to become more resilient to failure
Resilience can be built in a variety of ways. fizkes/ ShutterstockFailure may be an inevitable part of life, but that...
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