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For some patients the risk of death within five years is as low as 0.2%, according to large-scale research

Another day, another study claiming that breastfed babies are vastly intellectually superior to their poor, bedraggled dim-witted simpleton bottle-fed pals. This study, by the University of Oxford no less, involving almost 5,000 children in England, concluded that those breastfed for at least a year were 38 per cent more likely…

A number of institutions have ended their relationships with the Sackler family over its association with the US opioid crisis

Sir John Bell told the inaugural Rhodes Policy Summit that starting from scratch would be very difficult.

The new tool could help send patients for screening earlier and lead which could provide and early diagnosis and save lives.

The CanPredict tool works by examining existing patient health records.

Programmes to help people lose weight through changes to their diet, exercise or both, are mainstays of weight management. Despite their widespread use, many people worry that after the programmes end they will regain the weight they lost – or more - removing the health benefits.

It is hard to shake the intuition that there’s a real and objective physical world out there. If I see an umbrella on top of a shelf, I assume you do too. And if I don’t look at the umbrella, I expect it to remain there as long as nobody…

While these drugs carry a greater breast cancer risk, those chances are very small for people under 40