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'Body doubling' is a strategy people with ADHD can use to accomplish more than they would alone. Here's how to do it.
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Your attention span has shrunk by nearly two minutes in the past 20 years, driven in part by technology's hold over your work and home life, experts say. Here's how to stay focused so you can get things done.
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Why would a person pick a potential life partner without feeling the spark of sexual attraction? And can these relationships survive and thrive? Can sexual attraction be cultivated later? Therapist Ian Kerner shares what he's learned in his practice.
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The increasing popularity of stylish, trendy athletic wear has made über-comfortable clothing something that's not just for the gym. It's infiltrated all corners of culture, from high fashion runways to the offices of Silicon Valley executives — and really, it's appropriate for any occasion when you just want to be comfortable.
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Human-caused climate change has already made heat waves around the world more frequent and intense.
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An expert in medication abortion describes how mifepristone and misoprostol work and what to expect after using these medications known as the "abortion pill."
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No air conditioning? Here are 14 methods for cooling your body and buffering your house from the outside heat.
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Two 52 million-year-old bat skeletons discovered in an ancient lake bed in Wyoming are the oldest bat fossils ever found — and they reveal a new species.
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Since Tupperware, the iconic kitchen brand that's been a household name for decades, signaled recently that it might be going out of business, you might be wondering how long your stash of its food storage containers is safe to use — especially if it's vintage.
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We leave behind our fears of monsters under the bed as we say goodbye to our childhoods, but one can follow us into adulthood and loom over our heads.
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The rate of premature birth in the United States is climbing, according to the infant and maternal health nonprofit March of Dimes.
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Even before their daughter was born in June, Aaron and Helen Chavez knew she would need heart surgery. Doctors expected her to have an operation around 6 months of age.
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The first photo ever taken of a black hole looks a little sharper now.
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It's a bird... It's a plane... It's a paper airplane!
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The respiratory virus season has started early in kids this year and flooded children's hospitals in many parts of the country -- especially with respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV.
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Higher Covid-19 vaccination rates among US children could prevent thousands of pediatric hospitalizations and millions of missed school days, according to an analysis published Tuesday by the Commonwealth Fund and the Yale School of Public Health.
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An experimental treatment, gantenerumab, failed to help people at high risk of memory loss from Alzheimer's or those who were in the early phases of the disease, the manufacturer said Monday.
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The Rugby 7s player has struggled with body image in the past, but says sport has helped
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The Paralympic Rowing Cox will compete a year after getting the all clear from cancer.
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A mother-of-three shared her story with Dame Deborah's mother Heather on BBC Breakfast.
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Victoria Atkins is challenged to name some health trusts meeting their targets to cut waiting lists.
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People living with alopecia could have access to treatment on the NHS in Scotland for the first time.
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A group of teenagers in Fife have been making a documentary about the impact of disposable vapes.
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The end of the pay dispute sounded too good to be true. And now some are wondering if it might be.
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Experts can’t agree how exactly they affect us and it’s not clear that science will give us an answer.
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The appeal is clear - but should we be turning to appetite-suppressing injections?
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A proposed law would let terminally ill people in England and Wales choose to end their life.
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People affected by rare blood clots say they feel they have been airbrushed out of the pandemic.
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The rise of these treatments has major implications for how we think about obesity, says James Gallagher.
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Experts call for an urgent review of obesity treatment services amid booming demand for weight loss jabs.
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Experts suggest that the number of people with ADHD is actually going to remain steady.
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The next public hearings will consider how the pandemic affected healthcare systems across the UK.
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Explore the data on how the coronavirus pandemic unfolded in the UK.
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The proposed law would allow some terminally ill adults to end their own lives. But there are requirements.
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Marketing rules will be stricter, nicotine vapes will be taxed and disposable vapes will be banned.
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Dame Ruth May tells the Covid inquiry nurses struggled with low staffing levels and difficulties accessing protective equipment.
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The Covid inquiry opens its next set of hearings on Monday, looking at the impact on healthcare and the NHS.
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An anti-corruption charity finds significant concerns in £15.3bn worth of contracts awarded during the pandemic.
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Over-confidence, wasted opportunities and muddled-thinking left UK sleep-walking into Covid.
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Covid inquiry hears harrowing testimony from ex-adviser in emergency preparedness at NHS England.
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The UK Health Security Agency argued naming the junior officials could put them at risk of abuse.
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Social care providers say the sector is in "unprecedented danger" without more funding.
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UKHSA's Prof Susan Hopkins said respirator masks may have worked no better than thin surgical masks.
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The Covid inquiry restarts its live hearings this week, after senior staff in the NHS revealed just how close some hospitals were to collapse
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Patients' families were “horrified but not surprised” when told the blanket policy had been in place.
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Mum of premature twins says rigid restrictions on birthing wards during Covid were traumatic.
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Crews say they faced crucial delays trying to save dying patients because of the time it took to put on equipment.
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A proposed law would let terminally ill people in England and Wales choose to end their life.
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Former health secretary tells inquiry some healthcare settings did run out - "and it was awful".
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NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard says the decision, in July 2020, was very disappointing.
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Sir Stephen Powis says points-based tool was drawn up should need to prioritise patients have arisen.
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A court challenge means the government will look again at the cap on the Disabled Facilities Grant.
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A new drug that slows the pace of Alzheimer's disease is too expensive for too little benefit to be used on the NHS, the watchdog says.
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NHS experts report unprecedented demand for the new generation of obesity treatments.
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Robert F Kennedy Jr has a history of spreading health information scientists say is false.
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The Olympic cycling champion, who has terminal cancer, wants more younger men to get checked.
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The government wants to create a smoke-free generation, and restrict the sale and marketing of vapes.
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One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.
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From 'fruitless' dating to financial pressures, people share their views on falling fertility rates.
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A faulty batch of Yaz Plus means some packs contain only four active pills rendering them ineffective.
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Kennedy's plans to ban dyes in cereals and fluoride in water could get major pushback from the food industry.
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Hundreds of women in the UK are taking legal action against Johnson and Johnson.
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The BBC's health and science correspondent undergoes an experiment to find out how a cold home affects him.
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His comments came ahead of an assisted dying bill being introduced to Parliament.
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Wearable tech claims to help monitor our health, but many doctors remain sceptical.
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Travellers are being warned of the dangers after six tourists in Laos died from methanol poisoning.
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Nik is worried assisted dying could lead to coercion - but Elise, who has cancer, wants the choice.
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Doctor Mike Blabin tells the BBC the sector is desperately underfunded despite facing huge demand.
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Dame Esther says she thought she would be "long gone" by the time MPs debated assisted dying.
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Labour’s cabinet remains divided on how to vote on Friday’s bill to legalise assisted dying.
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The proposed law would allow some terminally ill adults to end their own lives. But there are requirements.
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A proposed law would let terminally ill people in England and Wales choose to end their life.
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For the first time in nearly a decade, MPs will debate and vote on the issue of assisted suicide.
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About 300 million people have access to some form of assisted dying - what are the policies of other countries?
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A woman who defied mainstream advice to have risky brain surgery says her symptoms have gone.
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Leading end-of-life doctors warn system is struggling, and changing law could make situation worse.
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BBC News speaks to two terminally ill people with opposing views on the impact of assisted dying.
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MPs have backed a change in the law, but the measure still faces many hurdles before coming into force.
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Julie Trafford says she feels "dirty and angry" after the video was shared in an online group.
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Anastasia Cameron makes wigs for cancer patients after her own poor experiences.
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Adverts that do not show viewers unhealthy food will not be restricted by a new 9pm watershed.
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A lack of funding and staff are blamed as hospices close beds permanently or take them out of use.
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The serial killer nurse has been interviewed over more deaths and collapses at two hospitals.
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Families of children operated on by Yaser Jabbar say independent reports into their care are a "whitewash".
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NHS England medical director warns hospitals under strain after sharp rise in flu cases.
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Fears that giving 3.4 million people immediate access to new weight-loss drug could overwhelm NHS.
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