SEPSIS SYMPTOMS IN CHILDREN: FIVE WARNING SIGNS ALL PARENTS SHOULD KNOW
Each year 2,000 children develop sepsis in the UK, according to The UK Sepsis Trust. In the US more than 75,000 children develop sepsis....
BREAKTHROUGH BLOOD TEST COULD SPARE THOUSANDS OF PATIENTS GRUELLING CHEMO EVERY YEAR
Researchers at a leading NHS hospitals say the blood tests work by looking for microscopic traces of cancer in the bloodstream called...
THESE ARE THE 10 SHOPPING ITEMS MOST LIKELY TO MAKE YOU SICK
Leafy greens were top of the list, the researchers said. But there were some surprises like onions and flour. Foods on the list were...
ALMOST TWO-THIRDS OF PREGNANCIES NOW OCCUR OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE
Office for National Statistics data from 2021 for England and Wales shows 523,513 births were outside of marriage or a civil partnership,...
I'M A PODIATRIST - HERE'S WHAT YOUR FEET SAY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH
From pesky cracked heels to more serious problems, such as swelling, feet often show signs of disease before any other part of your...
NANDO'S-STYLE COVID ALERT LEVELS ARE BINNED JUST AS CASES ARE STARTING TO RISE AGAIN
Nando's-style Covid alert levels have been binned, just as cases have once again started to rise. This is the latest step back to pre-pandemic...
WARNING OVER STRING OF FATAL OVERDOSES FROM ONLINE PHARMACIES SELLING DANGEROUS DRUGS
Medication bought through online pharmacies have led to the deaths of a number of people in the UK, analysis of coroners' records found.
HOPE FOR THOUSANDS WITH HAEMOPHILIA IN FORM OF NEW INJECTION
Trials of fitusiran, found it stopped bleeds in up to two-thirds of patients with haemophillia A or B. Experts say the preventative...
BOOTS STARTS OFFERING FREE 15-MINUTE 'HEALTH MOTS' FOR OVER-40S IN BID TO REDUCE PRESSURE ON THE NHS
The 15-minute Boots check-up can be booked from today onwards in 1,000 stores in England. The scheme will run until June.
PHONE, TABLET AND COMPUTER SCREENS SHOULD BE BANNED FOR CHILDREN UNDER SIX, PSYCHOLOGIST WARNS
Children who regularly stare at screens are more irritable and have worse concentration and memories than youngsters who do not use...
UK FIRM IS ACCUSED OF PASSING OFF HUGE QUANTITIES OF POTENTIALLY UNSAFE FOREIGN MEAT AS BRITISH
A meat processor supplying supermarket chains is accused of passing off potentially unsafe foreign meat as British following a major...
HOW A SLICE OF BREAD CAN BE AS SALTY AS A PACK OF CRISPS
Action on Salt says many big bread brands and UK supermarkets are failing to deliver on promises to make significant salt reductions...
GOING FOR A RUN CAN COUNTER HEALTH RISKS OF BAD SLEEP, SCIENTISTS SAY
Sleeping too little or too long is linked with a shorter life, but scientists have found that physical activity counteracts a lot of...
THE BEST DIETS FOR LOWERING HEART DISEASE AND STROKES RANKED IN MAJOR ANALYSIS
Researchers found the Mediterranean diet, popular in parts of Europe, more effective at reducing the risk of death from any cause,...
IS THE CURE FOR MIGRAINE MISERY SIMPLY SOME MELATONIN TABLETS
Australian researchers gathered previous studies, finding a majority of people who suffered frequent headaches had lower levels of...
PUPPY POWER! HAVING A PET DOG SLASHES THE RISK OF FOOD ALLERGIES IN CHILDREN, STUDY SUGGESTS
Japanese researchers found children who were exposed to a pet in their younger years were 15 percent less likely to have a food allergy.
'DANGEROUS' NEW TIKTOK TREND SEES PEOPLE APPLY CHAPSTICK TO THEIR EYELIDS TO 'GET HIGH'
'Beezin', which first emerged in the 2010s, involves people putting Burt's Bees lip balm around their eyes to imitate and intensify...
HUMANS ALIVE NOW COULD REACH 140, SCIENTISTS PREDICT - AS WE'RE NOWHERE NEAR 'MAXIMUM' LIFESPAN
Many experts have long suspected that the human lifespan had hit its limit, with no one likely to surpass the record of Jeanne Calment,...
MAN DUBBED 'THE TESTICLE KING' REVEALS HE LIVES ON DIET OF UNCOOKED ANIMAL GENITALS AND RAW MEAT
Pauly Long, 31, who is from Philadelphia but lives in Bali, Indonesia, posts videos of himself eating raw goat testicles about once...
I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH MS AT 24 - HERE'S THE WARNING SIGNS
Angelina Cubero, 27, from Jersey City, was diagnosed with the disease at age 24 - but it was a long road. Like many MS sufferers, it...
Federal Judge Strikes Down ACA's Preventive Care Coverage Requirements
A federal judge on Thursday struck down the Affordable Care Act provision requiring all insurers to cover certain preventive services free of charge, angering the law's... Read more ...
World Athletics bans transgender athletes from competing in female category...
World Athletics, the international governing body for the field of athletics, has announced that male-to-female transgender athletes cannot compete in international events for... Read more ...
More Pregnant People Are Overdosing, and Stigma Plays a Role
The introduction of fentanyl into the drug supply has been driving an increase in overdose deaths among the entire population, and pregnant people show these same patterns of... Read more ...
Cognitive behavioral therapy-based intervention reduces diabetes distress...
A cognitive behavioral therapy multidisciplinary intervention was associated with a reduction in HbA1c and improvements in diabetes distress for adults with type 1 and type 2... Read more ...
Nivolumab plus chemotherapy confers sustained benefit for patients with NSCLC
Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus platinum-based chemotherapy conferred sustained clinical benefit for patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer, 3-year follow-up results of... Read more ...
VTE Risk in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer Increases With More Lines of Chemotherapy
TAMPA, Fla. - As lines of therapy increased for recurrent ovarian cancer, so did the risk of venous thromboembolism , a retrospective study showed. Almost 80% of VTEs occurred... Read more ...
Buprenorphine initiation in ED safe, effective among patients with OUD who...
Initiating buprenorphine in the ED to patients with opioid use disorder was safe, with fewer than 1% of patients experiencing precipitated withdrawal despite a high prevalence... Read more ...
Biden administration officials pressured Meta to censor private WhatsApp...
New emails have revealed how the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor the private messages of vaccine skeptics on their WhatsApp messaging service. The emails... Read more ...
Sepsis symptoms in children: Five warning signs all parents should know
Each year 2,000 children develop sepsis in the UK, according to The UK Sepsis Trust. In the US more than 75,000 children develop sepsis. But it is treatable with antibiotics if... Read more ...
More than 750,000 people in UK are likely to have had long Covid for at...
Around 3% of the population are estimated to have long Covid Read more ...