by News Feed Editor | Jul 9, 2026 | Health
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” Eight days before my 33rd birthday in April, a social worker at a crisis clinic near Denver determined I was an imminent...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 8, 2026 | Health
Azadeh Moshiri, South Asia correspondent, Mymensingh and Aakriti Thapar8 hours ago”I have never seen an outbreak this huge,” says paediatrician Dr Mohammed Golam Mawla, as we look around a measles ward in the Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh.Until March this...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 8, 2026 | Health
Getty ImagesSophie HutchinsonHealth correspondent8 hours agoThe Meningitis B vaccine does not prevent gonorrhoea infections despite being offered to at-risk men, scientists say. The NHS started offering the vaccine to men who have sex with men last year, after...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 8, 2026 | Health
Getty ImagesBethany BellGermany reporter8 July 2026, 14:04 BSTUpdated 2 hours agoA German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients.A court in Berlin found the 41-year-old man, named only as Johannes M. in line with...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 8, 2026 | Health
GettyPhilippa RoxbyHealth reporter33 minutes agoAs temperatures exceed 30C (86F) in some parts of the UK this week, the last thing people want to do is turn on the oven.Not only can cooking in hot weather feel like a chore, but many of us find ourselves feeling less...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 7, 2026 | Health
Getty ImagesHenry Moore56 minutes agoThe public will be asked who should receive social care and how it should be paid for as part of a review into the system.Baroness Louise Casey, who is leading a commission into adult social care in England, described the system to...