Category: 6. Health

Almost 200 people have been diagnosed with HIV or hepatitis since local A&E departments introduced routine screening.

About 180 people who attended A&E have been diagnosed with blood-borne viruses (BBVs), including HIV, since the opt-out testing…

Brain cancer, especially glioblastoma, is characterized by its aggressive nature, with very poor survival rates. Conventional treatments hardly succeed because of the brain’s protective barriers, which easily block the path of drug delivery.…

Heavy menstrual bleeding and plant-based diets may significantly raise the risk of anaemia among teenage girls, a small new study has found.

Adolescent girls require more iron due to hormonal changes, and they are also at greater risk of iron…

By Olivia Lewis

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women in the world, according to the World Health Organization.

The disease, which develops from continuous human papillomavirus infections, is preventable through the HPV…

To make large language models (LLMs) more accurate when answering harder questions, researchers can let the model spend more time thinking about potential solutions.

But common approaches that give LLMs this capability set a fixed computational…

We have defined 14 scenarios based on specific epidemiological and virological factors, including animal origin, characteristics of human cases (number and exposure context), severity signals, that are then further defined based on the presence…

Published on
04/12/2025 – 6:00 GMT+1

European countries should step up efforts to combat bird flu threats amid an “unprecedented” number…

Science editor Ian Sample sits down with co-host Madeleine Finlay and science correspondent Hannah Devlin to hear about three eye-catching stories from the week, including a study showing that the brain has five ‘eras’, with adult mode not…