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 England’s NHS is set to introduce a chickenpox vaccine from January, officials have announced, a move expected to safeguard children fromContinue Reading
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Cagkan Sayin/Shutterstock In my youth, I spent an unreasonable amount of time questioning why A-level chemistry was a prerequisite for medical school. Why was it as essential as biology? Why did I need to learn about electrons and entropy? The penny finally dropped when my rather brilliant teachers turned myContinue 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 New Mexico health officials reported the state’s first case of plague this year, the latest in a string of cases acrossContinue Reading
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Izf/Shutterstock.com Exercise is a cornerstone of good health and evidence shows it can even help prevent cancers returning following treatment. But new findings are raising an unexpected question: could very high-volume endurance training carry its own risks? At the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting, researchers from Inova ScharContinue Reading
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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 Thousands of people across England have been referred for liver cancer checks following the expansion of mobile scanning trucks. The on-the-spotContinue Reading
