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2 May 2024

  • Injection pens and boxes of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy are shown in this photo illustration

    Danish firm behind weight-loss drug Wegovy raises profit forecast to £15.3bn

    Novo Nordisk, which is now Europe’s most valuable company, also reports strong sales of diabetes drug Ozempic
  • lots of people with signs

    ‘Resist the state’: activists teach Floridians to ‘self-manage’ abortions in wake of ban

    As the state bans abortion past six weeks of pregnancy, a community care network springs to action in Gainesville

    • Death by diabetes: America's preventable epidemic
      Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies? A lawsuit dared to ask

    • Science Weekly
      The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

    • Infected blood inquiry: study that said risk was seen as ‘tolerable’ omitted patient death

1 May 2024

  • Three Kinder Surprise eggs in red and white foil with colourful lettering

    ‘Unethical’ junk food packaging manipulates children into craving sweets, report claims

  • Women in group therapy holding hands in unity.

    Women live more years in ill-health than men, finds gender health gap study

  • person's hand holds sign reading 'my body my choice'

    Arizona senate passes repeal of 1864 near-total abortion ban

  • A color-coded map of the US showing the status of each states' abortion laws

    Tracking abortion laws across the United States

  • Take it from a psychologist: Rishi Sunak’s callous crusade on welfare will have disastrous consequences

    Jay Watts

  • Badenoch claims girls developed UTIs due to lack of single-sex toilets at school

  • Ministers agree three-month deadline for UK infected blood compensation

  • I can truly see the case for assisted dying. But the horrific state of the NHS makes me question if it is the best idea

    Rachel Clarke

  • Untreated mental health issues too often leading to violent crimes, says Khan

  • Rapidly rising levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’ alarm experts

30 April 2024

  • A woman looking out of her window.

    Perimenopausal women have 40% higher risk of depression, study suggests

    Researchers examined data from seven studies involving more than 9,000 women around the world
  • Prostate cancer trial<br>EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY MAY 1 File photo dated 05/06/2020 of a paramedic holding a test tube containing a blood sample. Methods of screening men for prostate cancer are set to be trialled in a bid to save thousands of lives in the UK each year. The £42 million project, known as Transform, has been hailed as "a pivotal moment in the history of prostate cancer research" by experts. It is also hoped the research will help men avoid harm from potentially unnecessary biopsies and treatment. Issue date: Wednesday May 1, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story HEALTH Prostate. Photo credit should read: Simon Dawson/PA Wire

    Prostate cancer screening methods trialled in ‘pivotal moment’

    Transform project has potential to reduce deaths from the disease by 40%, savings thousands of lives a year in UK

    • Slow 999 response times forcing many more people to find own way to A&E

    • String of killings have put spotlight on adequacy of mental health care in UK

    • King Charles visits hospital as he returns to public duties after cancer diagnosis – video

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