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Health officials in Paris say a child needs medical monitoring because tests conducted after the Notre Dame Cathedral fire showed that he was at risk of lead poisoning. The Regional Health Authority said the Parisian child, who was tested last week, won’t need treatment yet. Checks are being conducted to determine whether the lead came […]

Image copyright Getty Images A man who donated his mother’s body to what he thought was Alzheimer’s research learned later it was used to test explosives. So what does happen when your body is donated to medical science? Last week new details of a lawsuit emerged against The Biological Resource Centre in Arizona following an

An actor whose credits include a raft of medical dramas has become an A&E nurse in real life. Vicky Hall played nurses and other roles in programmes including Casualty, Holby City and Doctors before deciding on a career change, training to become a medic off screen. She said her two children meant the travel demanded

Image copyright PA Media The government has come up with new proposals for England and Wales to end the row with doctors over pensions. Doctors had started refusing to do overtime shifts because they were being landed with bills after changes to the amount that can be accrued tax-free. Just weeks after ruling out reviewing

Toni Morrison, the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and the author of 11 novels, died at 88 on Monday, leaving behind a legacy of words that reshaped American culture. Her writing itself was a singular force, but one detail about Morrison’s career that has always been a guiding light to

It’s the last half of a cooking battle, and professional pastry chef Claire Saffitz is in a war against a Dorito. For three days, she’s dehydrated bell peppers to make cheese powder, diagramed the proper isosceles triangle for cutting out chips and calculated the correct masa harina dough. The end of her long journey is

Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades. The number of naloxone prescriptions dispensed by U.S. retail pharmacies doubled from 2017 to last year, rising from 271,000 to 557,000, health officials reported Tuesday. The

The project to build a new children’s hospital in Edinburgh will cost a further £90m. A new Audit Scotland report shows that £80m has been spent on “enabling and equipment works” at the site – beyond the deal with consortium IHSL. A further £11.6m was given to IHSL to end a contract dispute over construction

As the tragic news of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, dominates the news cycle, Americans confront a rising sense of unease. Sources of the anxiety include issues like white supremacy, gun control, terrorism and the way our society views mental illness. But there’s also a personal mental health component. Whenever I’m

Farmers are struggling to keep crops from withering on the vine thanks to a severe drought affecting more than 4.5% of the continental United States ― and turning on the sprinklers could make the problem worse. “The shift toward more meat-based diets is becoming a major problem that puts pressure on water resources around the