Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs linked to 30% lower breast cancer risk

Popular medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound may offer an unexpected benefit beyond helping people lose weight and manage diabetes. New research involving more than 110,000 women found…

Africa CDC and WHO launch joint continental Ebola response plan

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a joint continental preparedness and response plan on the ongoing Ebola outbreak…

Ronan Keating on the toll of being in Boyzone

Ronan Keating talks about the mental toll of being in Boyzone. Source link

Are you feeling overwhelmed?

Kimberley Wilson gives some tips on how to deal with feeling overwhelmed. Source link

Loneliness group helps young adults find friends

The national group was set up to help tackle loneliness, after a man died from suicide. Source link

1 in 4 births in England now by emergency C-section

A quarter of all babies in England are now delivered by emergency caesarean operations, BBC analysis shows – marking a significant rise over the last five years. Source link

One in four births in England are now emergency caesareans, BBC analysis shows

Prof Marian Knight, director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, which researches the care of women and babies in pregnancy and birth, says the rise represents a “total change in…

'World-first' vaccine designed by Artificial Intelligence

Cambridge scientists say they have, for the first time, tested a vaccine designed by AI. Source link

Scientists discover the master clock that controls biological growth and development

Imagine a train sitting at a station. Passengers have boarded, conductors have checked tickets, and everything appears ready to go. But if the engineer’s watch has stopped working, the train…

Scientists finally crack an “undruggable” pancreatic cancer target and nearly double survival

For a long time, the likelihood of surviving pancreatic cancer has been extremely low. For patients who were diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer between 2015 and 2021, about 97% died…