Health

Annabel Rackham Health reporter, BBC News Getty Images Health watchdog NICE is asking doctors and other healthcare professionals to identify patients at risk of gambling addiction GPs and other healthcare professionals in England should help identify potential problem gambling, in the same way they look for alcohol and smoking addiction, new guidance says. In its first recommendations on gambling, the …

The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing H.I.V. medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. The directive is part of a broader freeze on foreign aid initiated last week. It includes the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the global health program started …

David Gregory-Kumar Correspondent for science, environment & rural affairs Getty Images At the site of the Shropshire farm outbreak, the killing and disposal of a million egg-laying birds continues A person working on a farm has contracted the human version of avian flu. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the individual “had close and prolonged contact with a large …

A 12-year-old girl died after drinking a milkshake made in an unwashed blender at a cafe in south-east London. Mia St Hilaire had a tree nut allergy and had a severe reaction after her order was believed to contain traces of hazelnuts and almonds from a previous milkshake made in the same machine at the Pop Inn Cafe on Southwark …

The third scene of the new Broadway production of “Eureka Day” could be titled The Way We Discourse Now. As written by the playwright Jonathan Spector, the scene reliably has audiences laughing so loudly that the actors are drowned out. The situation is this: It is 2018. The principal of the progressive private school Eureka Day in Berkeley, Calif., and …

A member of the medical personnel works at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing site which is temporarily set up at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, December 15, 2020. — Reuters  BEIJING: China said Monday it was “extremely unlikely” COVID-19 came from a laboratory, after the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said it believed the virus had more likely …

When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed possible that it might affect a few isolated herds and disappear as quickly as it had appeared. Instead, the virus has infected more than 900 herds and dozens of people, killing one, and the outbreak shows no signs of abating. A pandemic is not inevitable even now, more …

Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images The National Pharmacy Association said it was aware of people, whose body weight is already low, being wrongly prescribed drugs Pharmacy leaders have issued a fresh warning over the online sale of weight-loss jabs insisting there is still a risk to patient safety. The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has called for tougher rules in …

Carol Downer, a leader in the feminist women’s health movement who drew national fame for her role in a case known as the Great Yogurt Conspiracy — so named because she was charged with practicing medicine without a license for dispensing yogurt to treat a yeast infection — died on Jan. 13 in Glendale, Calif. She was 91. Her death, …

A health worker performs a COVID-19 test in the Kennedy neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia. — AFP/File WASHINGTON: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has shifted its official stance on the origin of COVID-19, saying on Saturday that the virus was “more likely” leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals. The new assessment came after John Ratcliffe was confirmed on …