Hong Kong Defends Sex Ed Advice That Includes Playing Badminton
Top officials in the Chinese territory have defended new sex education guidance that critics call regressive. Young people are amused.A…
Will the NHS ever pay for the new era of dementia drugs?
The NHS has said it will not pay for the first drug shown to slow the destruction of the brain…
Promising lung cancer vaccine trial begins in UK
A 67-year-old man has become the first person in the UK to try what doctors hope will be a revolutionary…
‘Our daughter should not have died from Covid jab’
BBCThe parents of a young woman who died after being given an AstraZeneca Covid jab have accused the NHS of…
Thailand Confirms Its First Case of New, Deadlier Mpox Version
The Clade Ib version of the virus had not been detected outside Africa until last week, when a case in…
First drug to slow Alzheimer’s too costly for NHS
Getty ImagesThe first drug to slow the progression of early stage Alzheimer’s won’t be available on the NHS in England…
Geri Taylor, a Voice for Alzheimer’s, Is Dead at 81
She turned her diagnosis into a command to live life passionately, leading to a 12-page New York Times profile and…
How worried should we be about mpox?
ReutersThe rapid spread of mpox – what used to be called monkeypox – in Africa has been declared a global…
Congress Presses Health Insurance Regulators on ‘Troubling’ Billing Tactics
Lawmakers are zeroing in on MultiPlan, a firm that has helped insurers cut payments while sometimes leaving patients with large…
Doctors cast doubt on ham-sandwich diabetes warning
Getty ImagesNewspaper headlines are warning eating "a ham sandwich a day" increases a the risk of type 2 diabetes -…