Health

A mother has today told how a car crash allowed doctors to discover she had a potentially deadly brain tumour. Elaine Lee-Tubby was taken to hospital amid fears she sustained a brain injury because of her severe headaches following her accident in 2017.  Doctors referred the 47-year-old marketing executive for an MRI scan, which spotted … Read more

One in five young British adults has signs of the silent killer dubbed ‘human foie gras’ that causes fat to build-up around the liver and can prove deadly  More than 20 per cent of UK adults have dangerous amounts of fat in their liver Gives them twice the risk of suffering heart attack and could … Read more

Maria Menounos is urging the public not to dismiss symptoms as merely ‘work stress’ as she did prior to her brain tumor diagnosis. The 40-year-old Sirius XM host revealed in July 2017 that she had a mass the size of a golf ball and that she’d undergone surgery to remove it.  In a recent appearance … Read more

Women could be able to have an abortion within a week and without ever seeing a doctor under new official guidelines New guidelines given by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence   It also says patients should be able to self-refer themselves to abortion clinics They could even be booked in for a termination … Read more

More than 71,000 patients were taken back to hospital last year just a day after they were sent home, figures have revealed. The number of readmissions soared by a third in four years, figures revealed, with experts blaming a severe shortage of hospital beds. They are concerned patients are being sent home before they have … Read more

A five-month-old baby boy has died after his parents put out a plea for a life-saving partial liver transplant from a living donor. Marcus Albers was born in October 2018 with an extremely rare genetic disease that changes the way cells in the body communicate and attacks the liver, reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Doctors … Read more

Hospital privacy curtains are breeding grounds for deadly superbugs such as MRSA University of Michigan experts studied curtains found on 625 specialist wards Around one in five of them – 22% – were harbouring MRSA or other killer bacteria The findings are concerning because privacy curtains are used around the world  By Victoria Allen for the … Read more

Over-the-counter lozenges for a sore throat may be fueling the rise of superbugs Non-prescriptions remedies often fail to wipe out the bacteria May strengthen bacteria and enable the species to evolve antibiotic resistance Sore throats are often caused by viruses, which antibiotics do not kill  By Alexandra Thompson Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 23:21 … Read more

‘One week ago, I was scared to death’: Inside Edition anchor Deborah Norville reveals she is recovering after surgery to remove a cancerous lump from her neck which was spotted by a viewer Norville has been on Inside Edition since 1995 The 60-year-old host revealed in early April that she was alerted to a lump … Read more

Smiling really DOES make you happier: Study finds expressing happiness influences the brain to generate positive feelings For decades, researchers have studied how acting happy could influence happiness A team at the University of Tennessee has analyzed 50 years of data on the subject They found there is a clear connection between acting happy and … Read more

Smoking is a leading cause of death worldwide. So, it’s hard to believe that in centuries gone by it was used as a medicine. Only in the past 70 years have the dangers to our health been recognised, after hundreds of years of tobacco being used to cure everything from asthma to the plague. The … Read more

In November 2018, Ashley Huffman was shocked to discover she had cancer in her left breast at age 32. She decided to undergo genetic testing shortly thereafter and learned she had a mutation that gave her a 70 percent risk of developing the disease. Doctors recommended that her twin sister, Danielle Jones, undergo the same … Read more