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Have you ever been in a bathroom stall and needed to throw away a used tampon or pad, but realized there was nowhere to put it? I have ― almost every single day that I have my period. Why? Because I use the men’s bathroom. I am a nonbinary trans menstruator ― someone with a […]
“Huntsville Family Buys Teacher a Car.” “Co-workers Donate Vacation Time to New Moms for Maternity Leave.” “Riverside Police Donate Sick Days to Officer Battling Cancer.” “How to Crowdfund Your Kid’s Medical Expenses.” “A Teacher Battling Cancer Ran Out of Sick Days. School Employees Showered Him With Theirs.” These are real headlines for real news stories […]
NHS reorganisations are not very popular – but Tom Locke probably owes his life to one. The 41-year-old was inspecting pigeon nests on his roof at home in Hythe on the Kent coast last October when disaster struck. He fell from his ladder on his balcony plummeting three storeys on to his patio below, breaking […]
Non-smoking adults have a higher risk of dying from serious lung disease if they grew up with parents who smoked, according to US research. The researchers said childhood passive smoking was “likely to add seven deaths to every 100,000 non-smoking adults dying annually”. The study of 70,900 non-smoking men and women was led by the […]
The number of children and young people being treated for type 2 diabetes in England and Wales has gone up from 507 to 715 in four years, new figures show. More than three-quarters were also obese, according to the NHS data. Child health experts said the rise was “alarming” and the childhood obesity epidemic was […]
Aretha Franklin, the beloved “Queen of Soul,” died Thursday at age 76 from pancreatic cancer. As the singer is mourned worldwide, her tragic death is also helping shed some light on a disease experts say is particularly deadly and in need of funding, research and overall awareness. Pancreatic cancer is difficult to detect early, spreads […]
Both accidental and violent deaths and injuries had been on the decline for decades — but that trend reversed, with a particularly large spike in firearm-related homicides and suicides and motor vehicle accidents between 2014 and 2016, according to new research. The increase, which reduced survival gains that the United States had seen since 2001, is […]
‘When a Co-Worker Said I Shouldn’t Miss Work Because I ’Don’t Feel Good’ was originally published on The Mighty. By Katherine Harris “We all don’t feel good sometimes, but we still have to go to work and pay the bills.” I stood across the kitchen from the person who spoke these words, dumbfounded, as she […]
You can be an absolute expert within the field of finding happiness and still need a little help yourself. “We have the same problems as our patients,” said David D. Burns, a clinical psychiatrist and author of bestselling psychology book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. And sometimes that means dealing with negative thoughts, anxiety […]
A woman has had a contact lens removed from her eyelid 28 years after it was thought to have fallen out. The discovery was made by doctors in Dundee after the patient, now aged 42, complained of swelling over her eye. The lens was found lodged in a cyst which had mysteriously flared up after […]
A mother who has lost four babies in four years is calling for greater support from the Welsh NHS for women who suffer recurrent miscarriages. Jessica Evans said she suffered a “harrowing experience” after she was refused a referral to a specialist miscarriage consultant in Wales. Ms Evans was able to access the specialist services […]
Rules around e-cigarettes should be relaxed so they can be more widely used and accepted in society, says a report by a committee of MPs. Vaping is much less harmful than normal cigarettes and e-cigarettes should be made available on prescription to help more people quit smoking, it said. The report also calls on the […]
A low-carb diet could shorten life expectancy by up to four years, a study suggests. Low-carb diets, such as Atkins, have become increasingly popular for weight loss and have shown promise for lowering the risk of some illnesses. But a US study over 25 years indicates that a moderate cut in carb consumption – or […]
The New York University School of Medicine will provide free tuition for all present and future students, the university announced. Citing the risk of “overwhelming” debt, it says every student will qualify regardless of merit or financial need. NYU said financial worries were driving graduates to more lucrative specialities, pushing doctors away from more general […]
(Reuters) ― The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd’s generic version of Mylan NV’s life-saving allergy injection, EpiPen, at a time when regulators are looking to lower healthcare costs. U.S.-listed shares of Teva jumped 6 percent to $ 23.88, while those of Mylan were down 1.3 percent at $ […]