When farm worker and market trader Rachael Ross, 48, found two lumps in her left breast just before the pandemic, she was hoping for the best. After having her breasts checked by her local doctor and going for a mammogram and ultrasound at a hospital, Rachael was reassured that they were just cysts and she was cancer-free. She was booked […]

High cholesterol: Nutritionist reveals top prevention tips If someone has high cholesterol it means they have too much of a fatty substance known as cholesterol in their blood. This is cause for concern because over time this can build up leading to blockages in the blood vessels, preventing enough blood from getting through. While there is medication available to help […]

Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked lower court orders that imposed restrictions on the widely used abortion pill mifepristone, keeping the status quo for the most common form of medication abortion while a legal challenge to the Food and Drug Administration's authority plays out. Why it matters: The decision forestalled what would have been an […]

When does the COVID-19 pandemic end? Epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have one answer. Restaurant-goers on Peachtree Street surely have another. And so do people who are at high risk of severe sickness or death as COVID continues to circulate. “I don’t know when we can say the pandemic is definitively over,” said Jen Kates, […]

Chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, asthma, HIV infection, and mental illness may be greatly undertreated in the U.S. jail and prison population, suggests a new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For their analysis, the researchers used national health survey data covering 2018 to 2020 to estimate rates of chronic conditions among […]

More than 36,000 junior doctors across England, Scotland and Wales are on strike from April 11–15. This is the second junior doctor strike this year. The key reason for these strikes is pay, with calls to increase junior doctor salaries by 35%. But this isn’t the only reason many junior doctors are striking. The strain of working through COVID-19, increasing […]

GENEVA (Reuters) – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) held talks last month with Russian diplomats in Geneva on providing aid to areas of Ukraine under Russian military control but has yet to be granted access, the medical charity said on Thursday. International aid organisations have been unable to reach large swathes of Ukraine controlled by Russian forces despite calls for Moscow […]

This article is part of a series from Medscape on vaping. Every day, Sonia Sharma, PA, meets people like Natalie H., who is trying to quit vaping. Natalie, a member of the nicotine addiction support group at the University of California San Francisco’s Fontana Tobacco Treatment Center, switched from traditional cigarettes to vaping but found the electronic version just as addictive […]

This Morning: Breast cancer examination Kami Lester, from Halewood, Merseyside, received a shocking diagnosis – cancer. “I went along for my mammogram in November 2021,” Kami said. “Although I’m in my early 50s, it was actually my second one.” Kami revealed: “I’d been part of a special project in my area, where women were called for their first mammogram before […]