Author: Healthcare Propulsion Staff

A national men’s mental health and suicide prevention charity marking its 10-year anniversary is expanding further in Devon.Andy’s Man Club, founded in 2016 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, was named after Andy Roberts, who took his own life at the age of 23, and describes itself as a safe space where men can talk about their emotions without being judged.After opening its first Devon club in Newton Abbot in 2018, there are now 14 clubs in the county. On Monday, the charity is launching a new club in Ivybridge.Roger Bond, from Plymouth, who went to his first session when he was…

Tooth enamel looks simple from the outside and consists of a hard, smooth surface built to withstand years of wear. On the other hand, under the microscope, mammalian enamel is arranged into tightly ordered prisms and inter-prisms, and those patterns are laid down by elongated cells called ameloblasts as enamel forms. Scientists have long known that ameloblast shape is closely tied to enamel architecture. What has been less clear is the molecular cue that helps these cells become so precisely polarized in the first place. Now, Professor Janet Moradian-Oldak from the University of Southern California, USA, and her team focused…

Across Europe, six countries have some form of legalised assisted dying: Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Austria. In all of them – unlike the proposals in England and Wales – help to die is not restricted to the terminally ill. Switzerland was the first country in the world to create a “right to die” when it made assisted suicide legal in 1942. It is one of the few countries which allows foreigners access to help to die via organisations like Dignitas, in Zurich. More than 600 Britons have died at Dignitas, external in the past two decades, including…

Cancer treatments, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, give a growth advantage to cells with particular genetic changes in healthy tissue, new research finds. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge, University College London and their collaborators used DNA sequencing to map the mutations in normal esophagus tissue from esophageal cancer patients who had received either chemotherapy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, or no treatment before surgery. The results, published today (11 September) in Nature Genetics, show that different cancer treatments changed the landscape of mutations in normal tissue. In particular, combined treatment of chemotherapy and radiotherapy led to significantly more normal…

As the world watched the Lindsay Clancy trial, the conversation was never about whether she did it, but if it could have been prevented. Throughout her trial, we heard how Lindsay begged for mental health help from the medical community and how the breakdown in communication between her health care providers left her treatment for postpartum issues as an absolute mess.To move that conversation forward beyond the courtroom, Criminally Obsessed’s Anne Emerson hosts this special town hall discussion exploring the urgent questions facing new and expecting mothers across America, what postpartum illnesses can really look like, when families should seek…

Researchers at Vanderbilt Health, UTHealth Houston and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified early signs of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic disease (CKMD) in children as young as 8 years old that potentially can be reversed with a new class of weight loss drugs used widely by adults.  Using cutting-edge analytic techniques, the researchers defined a “signature” of circulating proteins in children and adolescents that mirrored the molecular biomarkers associated with irreversible cardiovascular disease in adults. Their findings, published Sept. 11 in the journal Nature Metabolism, suggest there may be “a critical opportunity” to improve the health and longevity of…

The CL Companion is Swarovski’s dedicated compact binocular, originally introduced 15 years ago, but has now been redesigned in 2026 to appeal to a wider, younger audience. RSPB research found an increase of around 1,000% in birdwatching among Gen Z in the UK since 2018, with a similar boom now happening in the US.The CL Companion sits between the pocket-size CL Pocket and full-size EL and NL ranges, making it the perfect mid-range model that combines portability with excellent optical prowess.The Companion is a grab-and-go, “take it anywhere and everywhere” binocular that is perfect for many different activities, whether that’s…

Early one morning in the late 12th century, Bishop Hugh of Lincoln arrived in the Hertfordshire village of Cheshunt. There, he was immediately surrounded by a crowd of people, who begged him to help one of their neighbours. And so, dismounting from his horse, he went to the man’s house, where he was confronted by the disturbing sight of a possessed man ‘lying prostrate with his head tied to a post and each of his hands to great stakes fixed in the ground.’ Despite these restraints, the man constantly writhed around, rolling his eyes, gnashing his teeth, and sticking his…

The brain undergoes dramatic changes during puberty and pregnancy, but during menopause, the organ’s structure remains remarkably stable, a new study suggests.The research, published Sept. 8 in the journal Nature Communications, examined the brain’s gray matter, which mostly includes the wrinkled outer surface of the organ, called the cerebral cortex. Past studies have found that the volume of gray matter shrinks markedly during puberty and pregnancy, likely reflecting a fine-tuning of neural circuits during those periods.There’s also a gradual decline in gray matter during adulthood that’s seen as a normal part of aging, said study co-author Sophie van’t Hof, a…

Listen to article • 0:00 minKelly N. Moore, 46, of Burlington Township, award-winning clinical psychologist, founder of Moore Wellness l.l.c., director of the Center for Psychological Services at Rutgers University, graduate school clinical associate professor, former fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, mentor, author, mental health activist, volunteer, and 2026 Willingboro High School Hall of Fame inductee, died Thursday, Aug. 20, of kidney cancer at Virtua Voorhees Hospital.Adept at treating anxiety, depression, trauma, and perinatal disorders, Dr. Moore became director of the Rutgers Center for Psychological Services and a clinical associate professor in…