By EMILY JOSHU STERNE, US ASSISTANT HEALTH EDITOR Published: 19:18, 12 May 2026 | Updated: 19:18, 12 May 2026 View comments Prescriptions for controversial anti-worming drug ivermectin have surged in …

Americans should be rightly alarmed that the country’s birth rates have declined to yet another new low — falling by 23% over the last nearly two decades. But they aren’t …

Prescriptions for antiparasitic drugs spiked after the actor claimed it cured his friends of cancer, a new study finds. In January 2025, Mel Gibson told the influential podcaster Joe Rogan …

Jessica Sabatini is worried about her six-year-old’s success in school. Not because he has trouble learning but primarily, she says, because he's a boy. "My biggest fear is he isn’t …

By SHAUN WOOLLER, EXECUTIVE HEALTH EDITOR Published: 00:01, 12 May 2026 | Updated: 00:01, 12 May 2026 1 View comments 1 View comments Hundreds of obese four-year-olds are among more …

By PROFESSOR ROB GALLOWAY Published: 11:49, 12 May 2026 | Updated: 11:55, 12 May 2026 View comments Last week I read a headline that nearly made me choke on my …

A new Trump administration plan to rescind 2024 regulations for toxic ethylene oxide (EtO) pollution more broadly aims to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to strengthen public health protections …

“Just today, two students in the same class fell asleep,” says one secondary schoolteacher based in Dublin. His students are “exhausted from being up all night on their phones”, he …

From the Trump administration to online influencers, the hormone is increasingly seen as the key to achieving a new male ideal. Credit...Illustration by James Kerr / Scorpion Dagger Azeen Ghorayshi …

The Trump administration’s decision to restrict use of federal funds for fentanyl test strips, in what officials described as a “clear shift away from harm reduction”, could have fatal consequences, …

By XANTHA LEATHAM, EXECUTIVE SCIENCE EDITOR Published: 14:17, 12 May 2026 | Updated: 14:20, 12 May 2026 View comments Forget candlelit dinners and flowers – the most effective aphrodisiac for …

A hantavirus outbreak on the expedition cruise ship Hondius, which departed from Argentina in April 2026, has resulted in at …