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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionKeira Bell: ‘I should have been challenged on my transition’ A 23-year-old woman who is taking legal action against an NHS gender clinic says she should have been challenged more by medical staff over her decision to transition to a male as a teenager. A judge gave […]

TOKYO — Amid fears about where the next outbreak of a fast-spreading new virus would appear, infections and deaths continued to rise across the globe Sunday, emptying streets of tourists and workers, shaking economies and rewriting the realities of daily life. Panic-buying of daily necessities emerged in Japan, tourist sites across Asia, Europe and the

Keira Bell transitioned to a male when she was a teenager, taking puberty blockers provided after consultations at the Tavistock, the UK’s only gender-identity development service. The 23 year old says she should have been challenged more by medical staff over her decision. She stopped taking cross-sex hormones last year. The Tavistock said it always

WASHINGTON — As global markets plunged amid growing fears about the coronavirus outbreak, President Donald Trump and his allies pulled from a familiar playbook Friday and blamed others for the slide. It’s a challenging sell for a president who has lashed his fate to Wall Street like no other. The president’s team responded to the

Image caption Official health advice is to wash your hands more often and catch sneezes in a tissue Newly-retired doctors and nurses could be asked to return to the NHS as part of a UK “battle plan” to combat a possible further spread of coronavirus. If the outbreak worsens, people could also be urged to

WASHINGTON — Seeking to reassure the American public, President Donald Trump said Saturday there was “no reason to panic” as the new coronavirus claimed its first victim inside the U.S. The White House also announced new restrictions on international travel to prevent its spread. Trump, speaking only moments after the death in Washington state was

Image copyright Getty Images Testing of patients in Scotland with flu-like symptoms is to begin as part of measures to combat Covid-19. A surveillance network of 41 GP practices will submit samples, even if patients have not travelled to an area affected by the new coronavirus. The plan makes use of an existing system recording

For the 40 million Americans with an anxiety disorder, certain parts of daily life can be more challenging — and that includes sex. Anxiety (and some of the medications used to treat the condition) can lower a person’s sex drive, make it more difficult to orgasm or hinder the ability to maintain an erection. Those

The governor of Washington declared a state of emergency Saturday after a man died there of COVID-19, the first such reported death in the United States. More than 50 people in a nursing facility are sick and being tested for the virus. Gov. Jay Inslee directed state agencies to use “all resources necessary” to prepare

Image copyright University of Leicester Image caption Researchers claim the masks could help prevent long quarantine periods Researchers hope to trial low-cost face masks that can detect whether someone has infectious coronavirus before they display any symptoms. Experts at the University of Leicester said if successful, the method could simplify large-scale screening for the virus