DOCTORS are prescribing antibiotics for tens of thousands of patients with infections, with little or no consideration of prognosis and the risk of the infectio...
CAROLE Lawrie was horrified when her son’s leukaemia was missed -doctors brushed off his swollen eye as hay fever.“If I hadn't gone back [the third time] and pu...
A COMMON condition that affects millions of Brits could be responsible for one in three cases of dementia, say researchers. Treating the condition might delay f...
WEIGHT loss injections have become the holy grail in the fight against obesity, helping people shift the pounds they’ve been fighting for years.But alongside th...
A MAN who couldn’t pee was horrified to discover the cause – a massive red worm, wriggling out of his bladder.Medics snapped disturbing photos of the as it emer...
POPE Francis has died at the age of 88 after a “complex” battle with double pneumonia. The leader of the Roman Catholic church had been hospitalised at the Geme...
WHEN Sean Scullion and his wife Tijanna found out they were pregnant last year, they were cautiously optimistic. The couple had endured the heartache of a in 20...
About 12,000 Nigerian women are diagnosed with cervical cancer annually, despite the disease being largely preventable, the Coordinating Minister of Health and...
A WOMAN whose back pain was misdiagnosed as sciatica died from bone cancer less than a year after a tumour was found in her pelvis.“Athletic” Kate Drummond, 25,...
EVERY household has its own kitchen staples.From in the morning to for dinner, there are some items that you simply can’t go without.Do you know which milk is b...
POPULAR fitness supplements that claim to build muscle and boost brain power won't work, tests suggest.The ingredients list also reveals they’re made with a cur...
HE was only 28 but was already suffering from gout, sleep apnoea, high blood pressure and was on the verge of type 2 diabetes.Will Pattinson, originally from bu...
