Dostarlimab's 2022 Trial in a Specific Form of Rectal Cancer
First published September 30, 2022. What the trial showed in 2022, and what followed The initial paper reported complete clinical response...
Health & Medical Research
A health headline is a starting point, not the whole story. Browse writing about wellbeing and medical research with a few useful questions in mind: when was it published, who was studied and what did the evidence actually show? Personal treatment decisions belong in a conversation with a qualified clinician.
Twin Born at 1lb 1oz Kept Fighting After Cuddles With His Brother
Originally published 2022-09-26. Chester and Otis are identical twins from Benfleet in Essex, England, who were born 12 weeks early, at 28...
The Man Who Took In His Dying 89-Year-Old Neighbour, Norma Cook
Originally published 2022-09-26. In the last months of her life, a 31-year-old actor in West Hollywood, Chris Salvatore, invited his 89-y...
Bill Gates's $20 Billion Gift to the Gates Foundation
Originally published 2022-07-14. In July 2022, Bill Gates announced that he was giving $20 billion of his personal fortune to the Bill ...
Nitrites in Processed Meat and Bowel Cancer: France's ANSES Findings
Originally published 2022-07-14. Do the nitrites in ham and bacon raise the risk of bowel cancer? In July 2022 France's food and health...
Nine Signs You May Be an Overthinker, and How to Ease It
Originally published 2022-07-05. In July 2022, Dr Lalitaa Suglani, a chartered psychologist based in Birmingham, England, shared a list on ...
Tideglusib: The Alzheimer's Drug That Helped Mouse Teeth Repair
Originally published 2022-07-03. Can a drug make teeth repair themselves? In mice, at least partly, yes. In a study published in Scientifi...
Polio Found in London Sewage in 2022: What It Meant and What Followed
Originally published 2022-06-23. In June 2022 the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced that poliovirus had been found in sewage sam...
Face Transplant Recipient Cameron Underwood's Remarkable Recovery
Originally published 2022-06-12. In January 2018, surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York gave Cameron Underwood, a 26-year-old man f...
Spain's 2022 Menstrual-Leave Proposal
Originally published 2022-06-03. The proposal and enacted entitlement Eligibility, certification and payment terms can change during legis...
Belgium's 21-Day Monkeypox Isolation Rule and the 2022 Outbreak
Originally published 2022-05-23. On 20 May 2022 Belgium became the first country to make isolation compulsory for people infected with monk...
Obesogens: How Everyday Chemicals May Contribute to Obesity
Originally published 2022-05-19. Can chemicals in plastics, pesticides and polluted air make people gain weight? A large 2022 scientific r...
Microplastics Found in Human Blood: What the 2022 Study Showed
Originally published 2022-03-30. Yes, plastic particles have been measured in human blood. In March 2022 Dutch scientists reported in the...
HIV Cure in a Woman: The New York Patient's Cord-Blood Transplant
Originally published 2022-02-20. In February 2022 researchers reported that a middle-aged American woman appeared to have been cured of HI...
Uterus Didelphys: Evelyn Miller's Story and the Medical Facts
Originally published 2022-01-22. Evelyn Miller in a swimsuit and in black lace lingerie, in photos she shared publicly in 2022 (via Media ...
Do Cannabis Compounds Block COVID? What the Oregon State Study Found
Originally published 2022-01-15. Dates, ages and announcements in this article refer to January 2022. In January 2022, a team led by Richar...
The First Pig-Heart Transplant Into a Living Patient: What Happened
Originally published 2022-01-13. On 7 January 2022, surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore replaced the failin...
Did Keanu Reeves Give 70% of His Matrix Pay to Leukaemia Research?
Originally published 2022-01-05. Keanu Reeves has a long-standing reputation for quiet generosity, which helped a single tabloid claim abo...
Ashanti Smith, Teen With Progeria, Remembered by Her Family at 18
Originally published 2021-12-28. Ashanti Smith, a British teenager who lived with the rare rapid-ageing condition progeria , died on 17 Ju...
Viagra and Alzheimer’s Risk: What the Research Really Shows
Originally published 2021-12-12. Does Viagra lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? The honest answer is: possibly, a little, but nobody ha...
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Cartoonist Pablo Stanley turned John Lennon’s Imagine into a webcomic in which each line of the song is paired with a drawing of people fr... -
Brad Pitt did not write the famous list of twenty marriage tips that circulates under his name. The real author is Gerald Rogers, a Brigham... -
First published January 14, 2017. Many people who describe themselves as empaths say they feel tense, tongue-tied or worn out around someo... -
"Who are you?" is the question at the heart of I Am Nature , an 81-second campaign film made for the conservation group WWF and p... -
First published March 14, 2017. Thyme cannot cure strep throat, herpes, a yeast infection or the flu. That is the honest answer to a claim ...
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Originally published 2017-12-02. "If you love her, don't destroy her" is the title of a widely shared 2017 letter by the Leb... -
If you want a home workout that needs no equipment, five moves cover almost the whole body: the plank, the squat, the bird-dog, the glute b... -
Originally published 2017-02-09. Letting go means deciding to stop carrying something that drains you: an expectation, a grudge, a habit o... -
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In early 2018 a young Thai woman named Atittaya Chumkeaw drew attention online for something simple: she kept posting happy photos with her...