Jenny Rees BBC Wales Health Correspondent BBC By the time Kathryn Nicklas’ symptoms were fully investigated, she needed surgery to remove her large bowel A woman whose bowel had to be removed due to chronic and severe constipation says we should all be more open to talking about basic bodily functions. Kathryn Nicklas, 26, was … Read more
The city on Tuesday recorded the hottest April day in nearly eight decades at 30.4 degrees Celsius, which was 10.2 degrees above normal for this time of the season, officials said. The summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir recorded the highest ever maximum temperature of 31.1 degrees Celsius on April 20, 1946, the officials of … Read more
Over 400 residents from the Sheva Koliwada village demanding justice from the State and Central governments, which had promised rehabilitation over 40 years ago after acquiring their lands for a township project | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Over 400 residents from the Sheva Koliwada village in Uran taluka of Maharashtra’s Raigad district sat in protest … Read more
India’s civil aviation industry is in for a steep upward climb. New government figures predict air passenger traffic will increase by 80 per cent over the next five years, from 222 million passenger journeys in 2023-24 to nearly 400 million by 2028-29. The magnitude of the expansion underscores a definitive post-pandemic rebound and suggests that … Read more
Typhloperipatus williamsoni was spotted in the Siang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A team of researchers at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and The Environment (ATREE) had reported rediscovering a long-lost species of the velvet worms (phylum Onychophora), one of the oldest living fossils in the world, after 111 … Read more
Liam Barnes BBC News, Nottingham YouTube Jonathan Peter Brooks was arrested on the day of the stabbing and appeared in court days later – but has only just been convicted More than four years after he stabbed his colleague, plastic surgeon Jonathan Peter Brooks has been found guilty of attempted murder. On Monday, the 61-year-old … Read more
Fergus Walsh Medical editor Camilla Horrox Global health producer BBC April Hubbard sits on the theatre stage where she plans to die later this year. She is not terminally ill, but the 39-year-old performance and burlesque artist has been approved for assisted dying under Canada’s increasingly liberal laws. Warning: This article contains details and descriptions … Read more
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal with Sunita Kejriwal at the Golden Temple, in Amritsar, Sunday, March 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday (March 16, 2025) offered prayers at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on the completion of three … Read more
Reuters The rise is attributed to increasing scepticism about immunisation The number of measles cases in the European region doubled last year to reach the highest level in 25 years, health officials say. A joint report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN children’s fund, Unicef, said children under the age of five … Read more
BBC This lab-grown Wagyu steak is ready to eat, but can’t be sold in the UK because it has not yet been approved Meat, dairy and sugar grown in a lab could be on sale in the UK for human consumption for the first time within two years from now, sooner than expected. The Food … Read more