https://news.ketelle.co.uk/categories/health Health stories, told neutrally, with how each side covers them. en-gb https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/pennsylvania-counts-four-measles-deaths-cdc-counts-two https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/pennsylvania-counts-four-measles-deaths-cdc-counts-two Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:30:38 +0100 Health Pennsylvania health officials reported a fifth measles-associated death this year, an unvaccinated Lancaster County resident, while the CDC's national tally shows two deaths. (6 outlets: 3 left · 1 centre · 2 right) https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/study-finds-people-switching-from-weight-loss-injections-to-pills-keep https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/study-finds-people-switching-from-weight-loss-injections-to-pills-keep Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:40:34 +0100 Health Early real-world data from the OCTANE study, presented at the EASD meeting in Milan, suggests people who switched from GLP-1 injections to the Wegovy pill kept losing weight over about three months. The study is observational and its longer-term value is not yet established. (2 outlets: 1 left · 0 centre · 1 right) https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/heavy-drinking-rises-among-americans-aged-50-to-64-while-overall-use-d https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/heavy-drinking-rises-among-americans-aged-50-to-64-while-overall-use-d Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:40:31 +0100 Health A USC-led study in Annals of Internal Medicine found US alcohol use fell from 2022 to 2024, but heavy drinking among adults aged 50 to 64 rose more than 36% from 2018 to 2024. (2 outlets: 0 left · 0 centre · 2 right) https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/tennessee-health-workers-say-execution-rules-flout-medical-ethics https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/tennessee-health-workers-say-execution-rules-flout-medical-ethics Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:39 +0100 Health After a failed lethal injection in May, more than 40 Tennessee doctors and nurses asked the governor to pause executions and bar health workers from the process. The governor has refused a pause; a later NPR version says a federal appeals court halted the next scheduled execution. (2 outlets: 1 left · 1 centre · 0 right) https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/study-finds-weekly-isometric-exercise-can-help-lower-high-blood-pressu https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/study-finds-weekly-isometric-exercise-can-help-lower-high-blood-pressu Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:41:40 +0100 Health A Canterbury Christ Church University trial published in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine found that isometric wall-sits once a week kept some of the blood pressure reduction gained earlier, though three sessions a week worked best. (2 outlets: 1 left · 0 centre · 1 right) https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/tirzepatide-combined-with-second-drug-boosts-weight-loss-study-finds https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/tirzepatide-combined-with-second-drug-boosts-weight-loss-study-finds Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:41:08 +0100 Health Eli Lilly reported at a European diabetes meeting that tirzepatide combined with the amylin drug eloralintide led to greater weight loss than tirzepatide alone in people with type 2 diabetes. Higher dropout and side effects raise tolerability questions. (2 outlets: 0 left · 2 centre · 0 right) https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/sedating-drugs-for-dementia-patients-michigan-family-s-dispute-over-gu https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/sedating-drugs-for-dementia-patients-michigan-family-s-dispute-over-gu Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:41:35 +0100 Health A lawsuit by the sons of Marjorie Tingley, 85, says a Michigan memory care facility pressed for antipsychotic sedation and then evicted her. The facility denies wrongdoing; the story sits within a wider debate over such drugs in dementia care. (2 outlets: 1 left · 1 centre · 0 right) https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/uk-hospital-restricts-visiting-amid-scabies-outbreak https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/uk-hospital-restricts-visiting-amid-scabies-outbreak Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:39 +0100 Health Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli has restricted visitors and closed a number of wards because of scabies. Hywel Dda health board says it is treating patients, staff and contacts and deep cleaning wards. (2 outlets: 1 left · 0 centre · 1 right) https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/cdc-reports-two-us-measles-deaths-as-cases-hit-35-year-high https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/cdc-reports-two-us-measles-deaths-as-cases-hit-35-year-high Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:37:31 +0100 Health The CDC's national measles tally now lists two deaths this year, while Pennsylvania reports four. Al Jazeera says case numbers are at a 35-year high. (2 outlets: 1 left · 1 centre · 0 right) https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/study-links-2-3-million-2024-cancer-cases-to-preventable-infections https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/study-links-2-3-million-2024-cancer-cases-to-preventable-infections Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:32:15 +0100 Health A study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the WHO's cancer agency, estimates that about 2.3 million new cancer cases in 2024, roughly one in eight, were linked to infections. Outlets stress that many could be prevented by vaccines and treatment. (4 outlets: 0 left · 1 centre · 3 right) https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/which-finds-pricey-menopause-supplements-no-better-than-cheap-multivit https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/which-finds-pricey-menopause-supplements-no-better-than-cheap-multivit Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:10:30 +0100 Health Consumer group Which? analysed 26 menopause supplements and found none contained the right nutrients in the right doses, with some costing up to 20 times a supermarket multivitamin. (2 outlets: 1 left · 0 centre · 1 right) https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/late-stage-trial-results-published-for-lilly-s-retatrutide-weight-loss https://news.ketelle.co.uk/stories/late-stage-trial-results-published-for-lilly-s-retatrutide-weight-loss Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:41:26 +0100 Health Eli Lilly's retatrutide produced the largest weight losses yet recorded in drug trials published on 29 September, in the Lancet (type 2 diabetes) and the New England Journal of Medicine (obesity). It is not yet approved anywhere. 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