Health

Andrew Rogers BBC Newsbeat BBC Max shared his recent gonorrhoea diagnosis online and wants to end some of the stigma around the STI Max was in the shower when he got a call few would want. “My phone is connected to a speaker in the shower. That goes off, and I’m like: ‘Oh no’,” he says. He was told he’d …

President Trump has selected Susan Monarez, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to lead the agency permanently. The president withdrew his first nominee, Dr. Dave Weldon, just hours before his confirmation hearing. If confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Monarez, an infectious-disease researcher, will be the first nonphysician to lead the agency in more than 50 …

When the biotech company Humacyte designed a study to see if its lab-grown blood vessel worked, it decided to measure whether blood was flowing freely through the high-tech tube 30 days after it was implanted in a person. As those days passed, some of the 54 patients in the study ran into trouble. Doctors lost track of one. Four died. …

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human transmission and turn into a new pandemic. Cases of the disease in mammals have mostly been detected in the Americas and Europe. Sheep were added to the list on Monday with the UK government …

Steve Jones BBC News, Yorkshire Getty Images The case was found in a single sheep on a farm in Yorkshire (stock image) The world’s first case of bird flu in sheep has been found in the UK, the nation’s chief veterinary officer has confirmed. The exact location of the farm has not been revealed, but a government spokesperson said the …

A test tube labelled “Mpox virus positive” is held in this illustration taken August 20, 2024. — Reuters KARACHI: After surfacing of the first monkeypox (Mpox) case in Karachi, health authorities have taken immediate measures, asking for expediting the screening process of incoming and outgoing passengers in the country. The director general of Sindh Health Department has instructed the Border …

A week after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, a senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health was preparing to give an invited talk at a scientific meeting when an urgent call came in from an administrative assistant. There is a total communications ban, the scientist was told, and you cannot give the speech. As soon as the scientist got …

Alison Holt Social affairs editor BBC Phil Brown was able to get an ultrasound scan quickly and easily in a Barnsley shopping centre “That was really quick – straight in, straight out,” says Phil Brown as he leaves a smart glass building in a shopping centre in Barnsley. He has just had an ultrasound scan at an NHS centre which …

Michael Buchanan Social Affairs Correspondent BBC By the entrance to Furness General Hospital in Barrow-in-Furness sits a sculpture of a moon with 11 stars. It is a memorial to the mother and babies who died unnecessarily due to poor care at the hospital between 2004 and 2013. Inscribed underneath is a short verse: “Forever in our hearts; Forever held in …

Princess Beatrice has described the premature birth of her daughter as “humbling”. Her daughter Athena Elizabeth Rose was born several weeks premature at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 22 January. She weighed 4lb 5oz (2kg). “Nothing quite prepares you for the moment when you realise your baby is going to arrive early,” the granddaughter of the late Queen Elizabeth …