HEALTH

US to diversify infant formula industry to avoid shortages

US to diversify infant formula industry to avoid shortages

The Biden administration is trying to help foreign makers of baby formula stay on the U.S. market for the long term, in an effort to diversify… Read more

Sleep problems can lead to teen depression

Sleep problems can lead to teen depression

New evidence suggests that sleep difficulties, long thought to be a symptom of adolescent depression, might actually come first.

A new paper,… Read more

Marital status likely key factor in predicting early stage gastric cancer survival

Marital status likely key factor in predicting early stage gastric cancer survival

Marital status is likely to be an important contributory factor in predicting long term survival in people with early stage gastric cancer, suggests… Read more

Vitamin D supplement overdosing is possible and harmful warn doctors

Vitamin D supplement overdosing is possible and harmful warn doctors

'Overdosing' on vitamin D supplements is both possible and harmful, warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports after they treated… Read more

Rural women who use illegal drugs less likely to use contraception risk dangerous pregnancies

Rural women who use illegal drugs less likely to use contraception risk dangerous pregnancies

Women in rural areas who use illicit drugs have low rates of contraceptive use and high rates of unintended pregnancies compared with women living… Read more

Covid infections jump by half a million in UK says ONS

Covid infections jump by half a million in UK says ONS

Covid infections are rising again across the UK, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.

An estimated 2.3… Read more

Chinas Xi backs zero-Covid policy as Shanghai expands mass testing

Chinas Xi backs zero-Covid policy as Shanghai expands mass testing

President Xi Jinping said China must stick "unswervingly" to its zero-Covid strategy, as more than half of Shanghai's 25 million lockdown-weary… Read more

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NHS patients to be offered chance to travel for surgery

NHS patients in England who have been waiting more than two years for surgery are being offered hospital treatment in alternative parts of the country.

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