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September 22, 2023

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Get caught up on the latest good news in health, including articles on medicine, fitness, parenting, and healthy living.

Feminine hygiene products are seen in a pharmacy in London, Britain March 18, 2016. Prime Minister David Cameron won backing at a European Union summit on Thursday to end the so-called "tampon tax" that has become a political football for Britons campaigning to leave the EU in a June referendum. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

HEALTH

Scottish parliament approves free sanitary products for all women

A fan of K-pop idol boy band BTS poses for photographs with cut-out of BTS at a pop-up store selling BTS goods in Seoul, South Korea, December 24, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

CELEBRITY HEROES

BTS says new album tells of conquering doubts and fears

A woman tests a virtual reality headset "VR One" developed by a German manufacturer Zeiss at the Gamescom 2015 fair in Cologne, Germany August 5, 2015. The Gamescom convention, Europe's largest video games trade fair, runs from August 5 to August 9. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

HEALTH

Virtual reality may help relieve pain during childbirth

Factory workers are seen assembling the Alinker 'walking bike', a mobility device for people with disabilities, created by Dutch designer Barbara Alink, in Taipei, Taiwan January 15, 2020. Courtesy of BARBARA ALINK/ALINKER/Handout via REUTERS

HEALTH

Dutch ‘walking-bike’ helps disabled people gain mobility, sit tall

A mother holds her baby after breastfeeding at Kisenyi health centre in Uganda's capital Kampala. New mothers will start to receive AI-enabled devices to monitor their health remotely.

HEALTH

Ugandan medics deploy AI to stop mothers from dying after childbirth

Miso Soup

HEALTH

Miso soup might be the one comfort food that helps you live longer

Children's health. U.S. kids getting more well-child checkups, having fewer sick visits.

CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

U.S. kids getting more well-child checkups, having fewer sick visits

A junior doctor wears a protest badge during a strike outside St Thomas' Hospital in London, Britain February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Win-win’ in the UK as highly skilled refugees find work

Anita Morris psychologist and founder of social enterprise Hackback with Alex Goodwin (12) and his therapy owl Willow (2) at Cheshire Falconry, United Kingdom on May 28, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation / Cormac O'Brien

MENTAL HEALTH

Wise and serene, owl power swoops into animal therapy in England

A young camel herder drinks camel milk at dawn in the desert in northern Kenya, February 8, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Nicky Milne

FOOD

From camel to cup: Camel milk froths hopes in drought-hit Kenya

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