Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email A new study has revealed how microplastics can cause inflammation in the brain, fuelling neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.Continue Reading
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Antonio Marca/Shutterstock When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths across countries, I found myself pausing as the numbers loaded on the screen. Even as a scientist used to large datasets, the scale was hard to process.Continue Reading
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email After apparently being subjected to a “brutal regime” of force-feeding and physical restraint, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly left wheelchair-bound andContinue Reading
When your doctor thinks you might have an infection or an allergy, a simple blood test should give answers within hours. But for much of the world, that test can take days – or never happen at all. The problem is not usually the test itself, but an overlooked stepContinue Reading
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Heart problems can occur in athletes following long-term periods of intense endurance training. TetianaKtv/ Shutterstock Exercise is one of the best things we can do for a healthy heart. Yet research shows that endurance athletes have up to a four times higher risk of atrial fibrillation (an irregular or fastContinue Reading
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Around 200,000 more children under the age of five are projected to die across the world this year compared with 2024Continue Reading
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