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- Helping stoma bag users to swim with confidenceon September 5, 2026 at 12:00 pm
The Royal United Hospital in Bath has set up swimming sessions for stoma bag users.
- How hunger for a new weight-loss drug is feeding an industry of fakeson September 4, 2026 at 11:47 pm
Dupes of retatrutide are flooding the black market, but the drug is yet to be approved by regulators.
- The Global Storyon September 4, 2026 at 9:00 am
The US is an outlier in its approach to prosecuting infanticide. Why?
- Transplanted pig kidney works in US man’s body for record 271 dayson September 3, 2026 at 10:31 pm
A man has lived for a record nine months with a transplanted pig kidney while waiting for a human transplant.
- New GP and wellbeing hub ‘a major milestone’on September 3, 2026 at 2:59 pm
The £21m hub brings together primary care, community wellbeing and leisure services in one location.




