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Michelle RobertsDigital health editor, BBC NewsGetty ImagesAdverts from six companies selling liquid Brazilian butt lifts (BBLs) have been banned in the UK for trivialising the risks and exploiting women's insecurities around body image. All of them appeared on Facebook...

Aileen MoynaghBBC News NI health reporterBBCSarah Salters, chief executive of ADD-NI, said the charity receives a high number of weekly referrals for ADHD support programmes.Since January, they have had 165 referrals, with almost half of those for adults.She said...

One out of 31 children — more than 3% of kids — have been identified with autism, according to the latest results published Tuesday from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that tracks...

The prospects for a one-time treatment that reduces the risk of heart disease for the rest of a person’s...

For more than a decade, Navindra Seeram, a biomedical researcher, has praised maple syrup, calling it a “hero ingredient” and “champion food” that could have wide-ranging health benefits.Dr. Seeram, dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of...

Ashley John-BaptisteBBC News InvestigationsGetty ImagesAs well as hearing the testimony of doctors, the BBC has seen dozens of Synnovis emails, sent to GPs from 2021 to the present day, apologising and attempting to account for various pathology problems, for...

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Electrical synapses that carry messages through the brain have been artificially engineered in mammals for the first time, altering...

Patients with advanced skin cancer could be fast-tracked to take part in a "revolutionary" trial of a new cancer vaccine.The needle-free injection boosts the immune system's response and helps it attack and recognise cancer cells to help stop the...

During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. But in office, he and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching, sometimes subtle steps to undermine confidence in...