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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A mysterious hum is reportedly plaguing the residents of Cincinnati, keeping people up at night and even disturbing them psychologically. Residents of the Northside, Clifton and Camp Washington neighborhoods have been reporting the disturbances since December. The noises are said to be louder and more noticeable at…
The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced. The move was based on the spread of cases in 2024 when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales. Elimination status means there is no sustained transmission so this decision was largely expected, given the scale of the outbreaks…
In a recent survey, 72% of prison officers say they are frequently stressed at work, 45% say they have been assaulted at least once. So what motivates them – and how do they cope? Made by BBC Ideas in partnership with The Open University, external Film contains descriptions of self-harm and attempted suicide. If you’ve…
In 2019 the Football Association and Professional Footballers’ Association jointly funded the ‘Field’ study, which found footballers were 3.5 times more likely to die from neurodegenerative diseases. The FA also jointly funds the Brain Health Fund, which provides up to £1m a year for families affected by neurological illness in footballers. In 2022, the FA…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Consumption of death cap mushrooms — often mistaken for safe, edible lookalikes — has been linked to a deadly outbreak in California. The mushrooms, officially called Amanita phalloides, contain toxins that can cause amatoxin poisoning, which can lead to severe illness or even death. In the California…
BBC Allana Falconer has competed in 20 different Hyrox races since taking it up in 2023 Hyrox is a fitness craze that shows no signs of dying out – with 1.3m people expected to compete in an event somewhere in the world this year. The competition, which is split between running and fitness exercises, has…
Nick Triggle,Health correspondentand Elena Bailey,Health reporter Getty Images Tens of thousands of children in England have spent more than a year waiting for NHS community care such as hearing services, speech and language therapy and disability support, the BBC has found. The analysis shows a quarter of the 300,000 children on waiting lists have been…
Staff oversee real-time monitoring inside the Punjab Safe Cities Authority’s control room. — Facebook/@punjabsafecities/File In a significant move to enhance security and patient safety in healthcare facilities, the Punjab government has mandated the integration of CCTV surveillance systems in public hospitals with the Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA). All security cameras installed in the emergency…
Jessica Mason Jessica says women-specific health issues are too often dismissed A woman with cervical cancer who waited years to be diagnosed says she has “lost her faith in doctors”. Jessica Mason went back and forth to her GP and hospital with swelling, bleeding and pain in her vagina but says she was “fobbed off”…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! America’s heart health is improving in one key way, but a newly defined syndrome is raising alarms. The findings come from the American Heart Association (AHA), which reported improvements in life expectancy and fewer heart attacks and strokes compared to 2023. New to this year’s report is…