AMY Richards stood in her kitchen clutching a pencil case full of prescription drugs and she felt she had reached the end of the road. “I honestly believed my h...
The Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr Nicholas Baamlong, has confirmed 11 new positive cases of Lassa Fever across seven local government areas, with fo...
AN ITCH you definitely can’t scratch… well certainly not in public! That’s right, it’s time to talk itchy bums – or pruritus ani to give it its medical name. Wh...
Credit: Alamy FIFTEEN million more people should take statins as side effect fears are overblown, say top heart doctors. A review found the cholesterol-busters...
ALEEMA Ali had only just put lice shampoo on her hair when her whole body went up in flames. Although she survived, the now 21-year-old from Bradford was left w...
A MAJOR hospital in Kent has declared a critical incident after being overwhelmed by virus patients, with every bed now full. The move comes as cases of – known...
The number of people requiring emergency hospital care for crippling pneumonia has soared 25 per cent in just a year, figures show. The potentially life-threat...
SERIOUS reactions linked to weight loss jab Mounjaro have increased by over 300 per cent in a single year. Figures show 40,245 adverse reactions to tirzepatide...
ALKHUZAMA Zaini downed a bottle of vodka a day for ‘liquid courage’ to keep crippling nerves at bay while she was a student. The habit started off with an occa...
A BRAIN-SWELLING bat virus that has left people in India with “neurological complications” could spread globally, world health chiefs have warned. Two cases of...
Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to establish a federal kidney disease centre to save the people of the state from the sc...
BRITISH health chiefs have confirmed fat jabs could trigger a deadly, organ-destroying side effect. GLP-1 injections like Mounjaro and Wegovy, taken by million...
