Children as young as nine hurt in growing number of e-scooter crashes
Three trauma centres – Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield – say they have treated nearly 500 casualties under the age of 16.
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“Gold Standard Science” on vaccines? More like gold-plated nonsense
Yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order on vaccines. It’s a repackaging of antivax tropes that will make infectious diseases great again.
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Ebola deaths top 2,000 as scientists race to develop vaccine
Local officials in the DR Congo (DRC) reported on Tuesday that deaths from the Ebola virus disease have surpassed 2,000, with half of that number…
The importance of patients – the decade long effort to create next-gen cancer models
Dr Maria Antoinetta Cerone takes us through a decade-long international effort to create a bank of patient-derived cancer models…
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England set to eliminate hepatitis C
England is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver,…
100,000 people receive treatment to cure deadly hep C virus on NHS in just ten years
Over 100,000 people in England have accessed potentially life-saving treatment for hepatitis C in the last decade as part of a groundbreaking NHS programme, new…
New weight loss pill approved for use in UK
Foundayo is made by Eli Lilly, the drug firm behind the Mounjaro jab.
DR Congo: Ebola is killing people before they ever reach a doctor
More than 1,900 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak – and most of them never made it to a…
Latest winner in our Research is Beautiful competition
Some wonderful entries this month for our Research is Beautiful image competition – here’s the successful image for July…
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Cancer quackery: Under MAHA, everything old is new again
A viral Instagram post claims that cancer is not a disease, but rather a defense mechanism against “toxins.” Everything old is new again under MAHA.
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