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HEALTHNOTES: No breast checks for one in three women, new survey claims A third of British women do not regularly check their breasts for signs of cancer, a survey suggests. And a quarter of those polled said they were not…

Karina Antram spent ‘a decade being absolutely exhausted’ and has dedicated herself to battling the ‘pandemic of tiredness’ she says is plaguing our society. With a mantra of ‘what I do today impacts how I think and feel tomorrow’, Karina…

Reviewed Women undergoing autologous breast reconstruction – in which the breast is reconstructed using the patient's own tissues– report higher satisfaction with their breasts at follow-up, compared to those undergoing implant-based reconstruction, reports a study in a special October supplement…

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When three teenagers died of fentanyl overdoses last year in Larimer County, Colorado, it shocked the community and “flipped families upside down,” said Tom Gonzales, the county’s public health director. Several schools began stocking naloxone, a medication that reverses opioid…

Smoke covered large swathes of Australia during the catastrophic summer fires of 2019-2020. You could see the plumes from space. Over 20% of Australia’s forests went up in smoke and flame. As the fires spread, smoke covered towns and cities….

An immune factor released by white blood cells during infection or inflammation works to suppress the body’s immune response instead of enhancing it, according to Mater researchers. The finding gives medical practitioners a better understanding of chronic inflammatory conditions in…

‘Sometimes it can feel like being an animal at the zoo,’ said Eva Smith, 20, of the way she gets stared at, day in, day out. Eva has vitiligo, an autoimmune disease that causes patches of skin to lose pigment…

Before Jackson Danzig leaves the house each morning, he makes sure his backpack is filled with the usual high school necessities: books, homework, lunch—and the Narcan sitting on his bedside table. The opioid overdose reversal drug, also known by its…

Reviewed Cambridge researchers have found that women who smoke during pregnancy are 2.6 times more likely to give birth prematurely compared to non-smokers – more than double the previous estimate. The study, published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology,…