Browsing: health

More than 40 million Americans will stop receiving food stamps on 1 November, as the US government shutdown enters its…

On World Cities Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on national and city leaders to transform urban areas into…

Human bodies are like cities, teeming with microcitizens – vast communities of viruses, fungi and bacteria that live all over…

Protestors gathered outside Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in February after President Trump’s executive order to stop federal funding for hospitals…

Prostate cancer screening can reduce deaths by 13%, a study suggests.Cancer screening experts are assessing whether the UK should introduce…

The adolescent brain is still developing, and the use of cannabis regularly may disrupt healthy neural development. Sara Ruiz//iStockphoto/Getty Images…

David Gritten,Jerusalem and Rushdi Abualouf,Gaza correspondent, in IstanbulWatch: Explosions seen in Gaza after Netanyahu orders strikesAt least 104 Palestinians were…

Withings first announced its U-Scan, a non-invasive device you install in your toilet to track various health metrics, at CES…

Watt addresses BoM website backlashJosh ButlerThe new Bureau of Meteorology website is “not meeting many users’ expectations”, environment minister Murray…

Every few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks…