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Don't call it a 'super flu' – but the NHS is right to be worried this winter | Devi Sridhar

An early flu season, a new variant and poor takeup of vaccines leave the already vulnerable health service in a dangerous positionProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghYou might be feeling stressed out seeing the headlines about “super flu” and comparing th…

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Japan's former emperor turns 92 as heart condition stabilizes after health concerns

Japan’s beloved former Emperor Akihito is marking his 92nd birthday as his heart condition stabilizes, palace officials say, following health concerns earlier this year

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Take our quiz on the year in health and biotechnology

In just a couple of weeks, we’ll be bidding farewell to 2025. And what a year it has been! Artificial intelligence is being incorporated into more aspects of our lives, weight-loss drugs have expanded in scope, and there have been some real “omg” biotech stories from the fields of gene therapy, IVF,…

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Feeling burned out at work? Here’s the fix.

McKinsey has labeled the pattern “the Great Exhaustion,” noting that one in five workers now report outright burnout.

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Reform council’s plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people’

Announcement after proposed sale falls through prompts backlash and union says more than 200 jobs at riskA Reform UK-led council plan to shut eight of its residential care homes has been condemned as “a betrayal of local people”.Days before Christmas, Derbyshire county council announced that the ho…

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Barry Manilow reveals lung cancer diagnosis

The singer said Monday that he had been sick for several weeks, prompting an MRI.

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83K bags of frozen shrimp recalled over radioactive concerns

The recalled shrimp was sold nationwide under the Market 32 and Waterfront Bistro brands.

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Gene therapy for Huntington’s disease showed great promise in 2025

An experimental gene therapy seems to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease by about 75 per cent, and researchers are working to make its complicated delivery much more practical

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‘It’s a heavy, heavy load’ helping aging parents who live far away. Here’s how you can make it work.

It takes travel, time and money.

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Sudan's worsening humanitarian crisis: Doctors struggle to respond

Luis Angel Argote Rodriguez, MSF Fed coordinator, is out guest.

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Artificial Sweeteners, Cognitive Concerns

Mauro Proença, ACSH Our preference for sweet tastes represents an elegant evolutionary adaptation. The ability to detect sweet substances likely evolved to identify energy-rich sources,...

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How High-Fat Diets Make Liver Cells More Likely to Become Cancerous

MIT One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet rewires liver cells and makes them more prone to becoming...

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Japan's former emperor turns 92 as heart condition stabilizes after health concerns

Japan’s beloved former Emperor Akihito is marking his 92nd birthday as his heart condition stabilizes, palace officials say, following health concerns earlier this year

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Novo Gets Approval to Sell Wegovy Obesity Pill in the US

Novo Nordisk A/S won approval to sell a pill version of its obesity shot Wegovy in the US. Novo will start selling the pill, the first of the blockbuster GLP-1 class, in the US in early January. It is approved to help people lose weight or maintain previous weight loss over the long term. Bloomberg’…

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People in poorest areas of England ‘more likely to need emergency care for lung conditions’

Analysis finds those from most deprived backgrounds almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital for respiratory conditionsPeople from the poorest backgrounds in England with serious lung conditions are more likely to be admitted to hospital for emergency care than their more affluent counterpa…

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Revisited: why do we age in dramatic bursts, and what can we do about it? – podcast

Scientists are beginning to understand that ageing is not simply a linear process and we age, according to recent research, in three accelerated bursts: at about 40, 60 and 80 years old. In this episode from July, Ian Sample talks to Stanford University’s Prof Michael Snyder, who explains what the d…

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New Drug Stalls Alzheimer's Development in Breakthrough Trial

"These results are stunning."

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FDA approves first GLP-1 pill for weight loss

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a daily pill version of Novo Nordisk's blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy that the company said will be available early in the new year. Why it matters: It's the first oral GLP-1 drug approved for weight loss and could provide a more convenient an…

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Diesel pollution particles impair lysosomal functions of iPSC-derived microglia

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Novo Nordisk weight-loss drug wins US approval as a daily pill

Danish company will be first to market with oral obesity treatment but rival Eli Lilly is not far behind