HPV Self-Sampling Could Unlock Cervical Cancer Screening for Women the System Misses For decades, cervical cancer screening has depended on a fairly simple model: a woman books an appointment, attends a clinic, has a sample collected by a health prof...
Continue readingWhen Your Sleep App Becomes a Source of Stress — and When It Can Actually Help For many people, sleep is no longer just something they feel. It is something they measure. Total sleep time. Sleep efficiency. Number of awakenings. Sleep stages. A readi...
Continue readingWhy Leukaemia Treatment Is Entering a More Precise — and More Promising — Era For years, a leukaemia diagnosis often meant entering a world defined by intensive chemotherapy, long hospital stays, and outcomes that could vary dramatically depending on...
Continue readingA Fracture Risk Calculator Could Change Who Gets Flagged for Parathyroid Surgery Primary hyperparathyroidism can look deceptively mild. Sometimes it is picked up on routine blood tests, with raised calcium, few obvious symptoms, and an overall sense...
Continue readingAlcohol and Cancer: Science Knows the Risk, but the Public Still Often Doesn’t When people think about alcohol-related harm, they usually think first about liver disease, addiction, dangerous driving or mental health. Cancer often comes much later in...
Continue readingSchizophrenia Research Is Starting to Treat Cognitive Symptoms as a Biological Target When most people think about schizophrenia, they think about hallucinations, delusions and disorganised thinking. Those symptoms are central to the illness and can...
Continue readingFrequent Brisk Activity May Help the Brain Work Better When most people think about exercise, they still tend to think first about weight, fitness or heart health. All of that matters. But one of the most interesting messages emerging from recent res...
Continue readingYour Health Is Not Written in DNA Alone: Why the Exposome Is Changing How We Think About Disease Risk For years, precision medicine was presented largely as a story about DNA. The promise was compelling: decode a person’s genes, identify vulnerabilit...
Continue readingWhy Some Breast Cancers Spread Faster: A Protein May Be Helping Tumours Harden the Tissue Around Them When people think about aggressive cancer, they often imagine the problem as living entirely inside the tumour cell — harmful mutations, rapid growt...
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