Health & Fitness

Ouch! Cost of going to the dentist will rise by 8.5% next month

Ouch! Cost of going to the dentist will rise by 8.5%...

Women in their 20s given AstraZeneca’s Covid jab are 3.5 TIMES more likely to die of cardiac arrest

Covid jabs might raise the risk of sudden cardiac deaths in young women, official UK data revealed today. Government analysts trawled through data from...

Strong painkillers barely worked for me during my agonising knee surgery

I’ve never had to give anyone as much sedative as that before,’ the anaesthetist remarked as I came round from my knee replacement...

The bumpy spoon that tricks you into eating less sugar – and chopsticks that make food taste saltier

Could bumpy cutlery trick our taste buds and help us to eat more healthily? That’s the hope of researchers in the U.S., who...

I’m a doctor who has made mistakes while treating patients – here are my golden rules to protect you

Can you imagine the distress of going to hospital for an operation and having to return to theatre to have forceps removed because...

DR MARTIN SCURR: Is severe tiredness ‘chronic fatigue’ or something else?

My daughter, now 40, had a traumatic birth six years ago — soon after she started feeling unnaturally tired. A private consultant diagnosed...

Eye patients are slowly losing their sight because they are stuck in the NHS backlog

When Andrew Battye was diagnosed with an eye disease that can cause progressive vision loss within days, he was told he’d be fast-tracked...

How soup made with bacteria could boost your chances of beating cancer

As Richard Jones prepared for a stem cell transplant to treat his cancer two years ago, he was offered a new and unusual...

New pill for cholesterol when statins don’t work

A new daily pill which dramatically lowered cholesterol in trials could soon be available to patients with particularly high levels of ‘bad’ LDL...
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