Health
Chair-based exercise and laughter yoga: the cheapest intervention in ageing, and nobody runs it here
A not-for-profit takes seated classes into community centres and care homes. Participants say it improved their physical and mental…
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Health
Three in four people sleeping next to a snorer say it wrecks their sleep — and the snorer may have a treatable condition
About 40% of UK adults snore. It is usually dismissed as an irritation, but it costs the person beside you real sleep — and loud snoring…
Health
Britain has spent £83m running a vaccine injury scheme that has paid out £32m — and approved 264 of 24,260 claims
Administration and medical assessments have cost more than double what victims received. Assessment costs alone rose from £4.3m to £19.3m a…
Health
Searches for ‘cycle-syncing’ are up 740%. The people giving the advice are mostly not researchers
Thousands of videos tell women to match their workouts to the phase of their menstrual cycle. Most of the advice comes from wellness…
Health
A million young people are being offered a free meningitis B jab after the Kent outbreak
Nearly 90,000 doses had already gone into arms with 135,000 more booked, after the UK’s fastest-growing outbreak. The programme targets the…
Health
What heat actually does inside the body — and why the salt matters as much as the water
Blood vessels open, blood pressure drops, the heart works harder. Sweating costs you fluid and salt, and it is the balance between them…
Health
Meningitis can kill within hours. The glass test is the last sign, not the first
Most people know to press a glass against a rash. Far fewer know that the rash is a late sign and may never appear at all. Here is what…
Health
Chasing the perfect night’s sleep is now a recognised way of ruining it
Sleep scores, magnesium, white noise machines. Doctors say patients are arriving with tracker data convinced they have a disorder they do…
Technology
The plastic-free tea bag also sheds particles. The Barcelona study’s real finding is what happened when they met human cells
Polypropylene bags released about 1.2 billion particles per millilitre, nylon-6 8.18 million, and cellulose 135 million. Intestinal cells…
Technology
Why knuckles pop: the MRI that overturned a forty-year explanation, the one-man fifty-year experiment, and the finding that is actually true
A 2015 scan showed the bubble forms as the sound happens, not when it collapses. The arthritis fear does not survive the evidence. One…
Technology
An AI reads lung CT scans better than the standard test: 0.87 against 0.67 in a Royal Marsden study — what the number means, and what it does not
Researchers at the Royal Marsden, the Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College London trained a model on CT scans of lung nodules…