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15 hours agoShannen HeadleyWest MidlandsCCLGLiberty York died aged 19, a year after she first experienced symptoms of an angiosarcoma Liberty York was 19 when she died from a rare form of cancer, two days after her birthday. A year after her death, her mother Hannah York has talked about her strength and the parts of her daughter that existed outside of her illness. "The first thing that comes to mind when I think about Liberty is how kind she was and thoughtful," she said. To Hannah, she was still the same determined teenager throughout the final year of her life, before she died from an angiosarcoma, a rare form of soft tissue sarcoma, a type of cancer which starts in areas of the body such as muscle and fat. The first signs appeared in May 2024 when Liberty, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, began feeling unusually tired and nauseous. A year earlier she had been diagnosed with Addison's disease, a rare autoimmune condition, so at first the family thought it was possible the two could be linked. Liberty was referred to see a specialist but while the family waited for answers, she developed swelling and pain in her left breast.

16 hours agoKirsteen O'SullivanBanburyBBCDanielle Standen entered early menopause after she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33For many women, going through the menopause is a huge life change and can have wide ranging health implications. However, every year thousands of women in the UK are plunged into menopause earlier in life due to treatment and surgery. Danielle Standen, 41, from Banbury, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. She said: "As soon as I started my chemotherapy treatment, they told me that I would become infertile and I would go into early menopause. That was sort of all the information I was given, so I went into it blindsided. "Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said improving care for women experiencing treatment‑related menopause "remains an important priority for us". Danielle StandenDanielle underwent chemotherapy after she was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in 2018Unlike going through menopause naturally, entering it in a matter of days or weeks, sometimes known as "crash menopause", means symptoms can come on suddenly and be intense, with far-reaching effects. Danielle said: "I felt like I lost myself at 33.

In north-east Nigeria, admissions for malnutrition have risen by nearly a fifth in a single year at six health centres and four hospitals supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). They went from around 17,000 cases between January and September 2025 to almost 20,000 cases over the same period this year. Young children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers are the hardest hit.

Efforts to contain Ebola are starting to pay off in Bunia, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province and epicentre of the deadliest outbreak of the disease in the country's history. More than 4,000 people have died in five months, but the response is beginning to show results, as teams work to rebuild confidence in health services, protect women and children and support survivors. The outbreak, the 17th in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been classified by the World Health Organization as a public health emergency of international concern.

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Open this photo in gallery:Uzoma Asagwara, Manitoba’s health minister, speaks during the Provincial-Territorial Health Ministers Meeting news conference in Winnipeg, on Thursday. John Woods/The Canadian PressCanada’s provincial and territorial health ministers say Ottawa’s one-year extension of funding for mental health, addiction treatment and home care is not enough, and that federal plans would amount to a spending cut that is “the largest in a generation.”The ministers made the comments on Thursday at the end of their first day of discussions in Winnipeg, where they are meeting this week during a particularly strained period for hospitals and medical facilities across the country. Late on Wednesday evening, federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel announced on social media that Ottawa plans to extend for a year programs that were set to expire in 2027, which she said would represent $1.2-billion in funding. But her territorial and provincial counterparts said that change is inadequate and comes at the last minute.

Rates of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are rising nationwide and are at crisis levels in some communities. In Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus, Fairview and Hillcrest hospitals are located, the condition now affects as many as one in three patients, says obstetrician/gynecologist Monique Yoder Katsuki, MD, MPH. Follow-up with a primary care provider is essential for these patients, not just during the postpartum period but for the rest of their lives. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including gestational hypertension and preeclampsia, are associated with an increased lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease. Patients may need routine health screenings at an earlier age and more frequently, as well as medication management that takes their future reproductive plans into account. “It’s really important to get a patient’s pregnancy-related history,” Dr. Katsuki says. “Did they have gestational diabetes? Were they on insulin? Did they have a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy? Did they have preeclampsia? Did they take blood pressure medication?

Paying for health care is not the job of a municipality. Grand Forks and a handful of other local governments are doing it anyway. Last year, a local physician warned Grand Forks’ council that two of the town’s five doctors were planning to leave the community. In response, the municipality, alongside a local non-profit and the region’s electoral area directors, committed hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover the costs of operating the local medical clinic.

Higher total physical activity time, total physical activity volume, vigorous physical activity time were associated with slower cognitive decline and motor progression. HealthDay News — For individuals with mild-to-moderate Parkinson disease (PD), higher levels of physical activity are associated with slower cognitive and motor progression, according to a study published online Oct. 7 in Neurology.

A combination of low-energy diet and structured supervised exercise induced early-onset type 2 diabetes remission in adults with obesity, yielding significantly higher remission rates compared with standard usual care. HealthDay News — A combined intervention of low-energy diet (LED) and structured supervised exercise can induce remission in early-onset type 2 diabetes (EOT2D), with higher remission rates than usual care alone, according to a study published online Oct. 1 in The Lancet Regional Health: Americas to coincide with the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, held from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2 in Milan.

(HealthDay News) — Women who had genetic testing for inherited cancer risk years ago may want to ask about testing again, experts say. A person’s genes don’t change. But testing has come a long way, and many early tests looked at only a small slice of what labs can check today, reports The Washington Post.

IntroductionFrom recreational cannabis to functional nutritionThe diet-endocannabinoid connectionExploring the health benefits of dietary cannabinoidsCurrent evidence and limitationsThe future of cannabinoid nutritionReferences From hempseed nutrients to CBD-rich extracts, researchers are investigating how cannabis-derived ingredients interact with the body and what those interactions could mean for everyday nutrition.