Health

Doctors and nurses who love Max’s “The Pitt” remember the moment they realized it wasn’t like other medical shows. Caitlin Dwyer, a charge nurse in Milwaukee, took note of a character’s decision — counterintuitive but medically correct — not to defibrillate a patient with a particular type of heart failure. Dr. Elizabeth Rempfer, an attending physician in Maryland, felt a …

The viruses we know best are the ones that make us sick — the influenza viruses that send us to bed and the smallpox viruses that may send us to the grave. But healthy people are rife with viruses that don’t make us ill. Scientists estimate that tens of trillions of viruses live inside of us, though they’ve identified just …

Doctors and nurses who love Max’s “The Pitt” remember the moment they realized it wasn’t like other medical shows. Caitlin Dwyer, a charge nurse in Milwaukee, took note of a character’s decision — counterintuitive but medically correct — not to defibrillate a patient with no pulse. Dr. Elizabeth Rempfer, an attending physician in Maryland, felt a pang of recognition at …

Cash Murphy BBC News, South East Ian Palmer/BBC The sauna has been permanently located at Walpole Bay in Margate since 2020 A free-to-use sauna in Kent has become a “real community hub” due to its accessibility, its manager has said. In 2014, the company People Care. Planet Care – formerly known as Haeckels – launched a fundraising campaign to build …

A representational image for HIV. — Reuters/File Sindh’s Mirpurkhas district is rapidly emerging as “another Larkana” in terms of rising human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) cases among children, with 150 children testing positive for the virus in 2024 alone, official data revealed on Tuesday. The district now accounts for over 26% of the 568 paediatric HIV cases reported in Sindh last …

A representational image shows a person’s hands being tied up by their phone. — Canva Geo.tv illustration Hi Haya, I’m addicted to Instagram and TikTok. It’s been a while since I got so obsessed that I literally have started losing my sleep over it, which is now impacting my physical health. This habit has also started affecting my work, as …

BBC Emma Griffiths was about 11 when she developed symptoms for lipoedema For years, Emma Griffiths was self-conscious about the fact her legs had grown out of proportion with the rest of her body. But it wasn’t until she was watching Love Island one night that the nurse noticed contestant Shaughna Phillips had the same shape legs – and started …

Getty Images Senior doctors responsible for monitoring cancer care in England and Wales are concerned failings in NHS services are contributing to up to half of patients are not getting the right treatment for some cancers. In evidence provided to the BBC, the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NatCan) highlighted particular problems with prostate, kidney and colon cancers. The expert …

Jim Jones, the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s food division, resigned on Monday, citing what he called “indiscriminate” layoffs that would make it “fruitless for him to continue.” In his resignation letter, Mr. Jones estimated that 89 people of the 2,000 in his division were fired over the weekend, many of them freshly hired to do more in-depth …

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people in poor nations died literally gasping for breath, even in hospitals. What they lacked was medical oxygen, which is in short supply in much of the world. On Monday, a panel of experts published a comprehensive report on the shortage. Each year, the report noted, more than 370 million people …