shutterstock PeopleImages/Shutterstock Around a third of autistic people – children and adults alike – are unable to share what they want using speech. You may have heard the term “non-verbal” to describe them, but that’s nearly always inaccurate. Many people without reliable speech still make noises which those close toContinue 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 Newborn babies in England will now be routinely screened for a rare genetic condition, NHS England has announced. Hereditary tyrosinaemia typeContinue Reading
Vector Hut/Shutterstock.com They were pregnant. Some were prisoners. Others were the poorest of the poor, forgotten in death as in life. Yet dissection and depiction of their bodies have become the foundation of anatomical teaching. Cradled in the pages of anatomy textbooks are figures stripped bare, not only of skinContinue 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 Scientists have grown a human embryo-like structure in a lab which replicates very early human development – including the production ofContinue 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 Around 2.5 million people are using weight loss jabs in the UK, according to a report. Sales of fat-fighting jabs MounjaroContinue Reading
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Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com I recently heard Professor Luigi Ferrucci, an expert on ageing, speak at my local university’s medical school. One line really stuck with me: “The next great step in ageing science will be understanding how lifestyle factors slow down ageing.” That, to me, is the ultimate goal. IfContinue Reading
BLACKWHITEPAILYN/Shutterstock.com A major shift is unfolding in the field of skin cancer prevention, ignited by new research showing that an everyday vitamin supplement may prevent many cases of the world’s most frequently diagnosed cancer. The supplement in question is nicotinamide, a form of vitamin B3. Whereas previous studies hinted atContinue Reading
