New blood test can save pregnant women's...

A study in Taiwan has found that peoples' biological age increases when they experience heatwaves.Learn about this news story with Phil and Georgie. Find full subtitles and a worksheet for this episode at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-fr ... Show More

President Zelensky met President Trump days after Trump met President Putin in Alaska. Learn about this news story with Pippa and Georgie. Find full subtitles and a worksheet for this episode at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-from-the-new ... Show More

Charity Prostate Cancer UK says some people are being treated when they don't need to be. Learn about this news story with Phil and Pippa.Find full subtitles and a worksheet for this episode at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-from-the-news ... Show More

While properly ordered blood tests can help enormously with diagnosis, too often, blood tests are ordered without good reason. 

Many people battling symptoms, conditions, or chronic illness are subjected to routine blood draws and tests. How can these routine blood draws affect the body? In this episode, I uncover important truths about blood draws and reveal why the blood testing and donation system is b ... Show More

Depuis l'apparition, en novembre 2021, du nouveau variant Omicron, beaucoup plus contagieux, le nombre de contaminations au Covid-19 explose. Face à cette flambée de l'épidémie, on peut s'interroger sur l'efficacité de certains tests, et notamment des autotests, pour repérer ce n ... Show More

Contributor: Meghan Hurley MD Educational Pearls: What do you do if you need a stat pregnancy test on an incapacitated patient? You can send a serum quantitative human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-HCG), but that might take a while for the lab to process. Another option is to plac ... Show More