BABY screening in the UK carries out tests for fewer conditions than most other nations in the developed world. Britain ranks 28th of 36 despite the fact tots i...
EXPERTS today sounded the alarm over a rise in shingles cases driven by younger women. Roughly 50,000 Britons , with the majority of cases among older adults,...
OUR new unelected Prime Minister starts work tomorrow and you can’t help but wonder what his world would have looked like if England had won the World Cup the d...
OUR resident specialist and NHS GP, Dr Zoe Williams, shares her expert advice. Today, helps a reader who has been left with a crusty lesion on their head after...
WHEN Beth Brown discovered a small red patch on her face she dismissed it as merely eczema thinking little of it. But after the flaky patch continued to grow bi...
ALL teens should be offered a free meningitis jab on the NHS, health chiefs ruled today. Currently, most youngsters above primary school age are unprotected ag...
A DOG-loving mum sadly died in a GP surgery after waiting days for an appointment, an inquest has heard. Mother-of-two Jaqueline Watkins, 66, had been feeling u...
WHEN Damian Lazewski began repeatedly waking up in the middle of the night needing to use the toilet, he and his wife thought little of it. The now 45-year-old...
IT took 12 years for doctors to diagnose Carla Cressy with a condition that had been so agonising, it would leave her bedridden and unable to work. By this poin...
IN the warm weather, many of us will notice our hands, ankles and feet start to swell a little more than normal. Most of the time, this is nothing to worry abou...
MORE than 3,000 patients a day are being treated in corridors or cupboards because no beds are available in overstretched A&Es, damning figures have revealed. A...
BRITS have been warned that a rapidly spreading sexually transmitted tummy bug is a “threat” to public health. Shigella is a bacterial gut infection that can b...