Recent research has highlighted the bone-health risks of taking thyroid medication, prescribed to 23 million Americans.

This programme supports highly motivated young people from state-funded schools and colleges who demonstrate a keen interest in pursuing a career in medicine. The programme recruits Year 12 students ...

Bones can weaken with age and osteoporosis is common, but the right meds and lifestyle changes can keep bones strong.

Bones play a critical role in full-body health. The skeleton is the framework of the body—protecting your organs, enabling ...

Although I wasn’t very sporty at school, I’ve always kept myself fit and healthy as an adult. In my 20s, I would go to the ...

These may benefit those with treatment-resistant depression. If you have major depressive disorder (MDD), you may be taking an antidepressant. Combination drug therapy is a type of treatment that ...

If you’re one of the 85% of American adults who drink alcohol, whether occasionally or regularly, it’s important to know that it can interact with any medications you take. If you take several ...

It's a treatment long used to combat compression sickness in divers, and wounds that will not heal. But at the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research, in Be'er Ya'akov, Israel ...

As the toxic drug crisis continues to claim thousands of lives each year — fuelling perceptions that existing measures are failing — the notion of involuntary treatment is gaining political ...

Before you start treatment with escitalopram, tell your doctor and pharmacist which prescription, over-the-counter, and other medications you take. By sharing this information with them ...

More information: Karin Brandell et al, Randomized Trial of Very Early Medication Abortion, New England Journal of Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2401646 Journal information: New England ...

The study is published in The New England Journal of Medicine. 35,550 abortions took place in Sweden in 2023, over 60 per cent of them before the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.