Category: 6. Health

Tattoos have become one of the most popular forms of personal expression, woven deeply into fashion, identity and lifestyle. But as body art moves firmly into the mainstream, new research is raising important questions about its long-term…

Imagine you’re 83 years old, living with dementia in a long-term care home. Lately, your caregivers keep asking you to wear a bracelet on your wrist 24/7. They say it’s for your safety, so they can locate you quickly when needed.

At…

In a study published today in Science, the team identified a gene that plays an important role in setting the temperature sensitivity of a virus. In the deadly pandemics of 1957 and 1968, this gene transferred into human flu viruses, and the…

Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, one of the body’s ways of stopping viruses in their tracks, according to new research led by the universities of…

The locations of all community pharmacy independent prescribing pathfinder sites and their clinical areas of focus can be exclusively revealed by The Pharmaceutical Journal.

Data obtained by The Pharmaceutical Journal through a Freedom of…

One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, according to the Spanish society of medical oncology (Seom). In Malaga province, 1,222 cases were detected in 2024,…