We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info…
Read More
‘Healthy’ Plant-Based Diet Linked to Reduced Stroke Risk
Maintaining a healthy plant-based diet is associated with a lower risk for both total stroke and ischemic stroke, results from a study of three large cohorts suggest. A plant-based diet was not associated with risk for hemorrhagic stroke, however, and…
Read More
Talking about your mental health is an important first step – but what comes next?
Written by Lauren Geall When it comes to looking after our mental health, talking is a great first step. But what comes next? When you’re struggling with your mental health, one of the first pieces of advice you’re likely to…
Read More
“I feel stuck in limbo” 3 women with long Covid on what it’s like to suffer ongoing symptoms
Written by Lauren Geall As the vaccine rollout gets underway across the UK, many of us are looking forward to a life after the coronavirus pandemic. But for people dealing with long Covid – the term used to describe the…
Read More
New treatment for rare blood cancer approved for NHS use in England
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has approved the drug brentuximab vedotin to treat some adults with a rare type of fast-growing lymphoma. Clinical trial data suggests that combining the targeted treatment with chemotherapy could give people…
Read More
Doctor almost died of a heart attack to avoid burdening the NHS
The doctor who almost died of a heart attack… because he did not want to burden an NHS hospital coping with coronavirus Dr Paul Trafford, 63, returned home two weeks ago after a gruelling day at work The consultant anaesthetist…
Read More
Coronavirus: NHS Chief admits new Nightingale hospital may never open
AN emergency NHS Nightingale hospital currently being built in the north-east may never need to open, according to an NHS boss. The new 460-bed hospital is being built in an empty facility close to the Nissan car plant in Washington,…
Read More
Coronavirus day-by-day breakdown of COVID-19 symptoms – from mild to severe
Coronavirus is a virus which causes a new diseased called COVID-19. At the moment the government is encouraging people in the UK to practice social distancing and self isolation in order to limit the spread of coronavirus. And if you…
Read More
Staff deliver BEER to NHS coronavirus quarantine unit on the Wirral
Staff deliver a boot load of BEER to NHS coronavirus quarantine unit on the Wirral amid claims the evacuees from Wuhan are ‘holding medics to ransom’ and threatening to walk out if they don’t provide takeaways and booze Sources claim…
Read More
The four best hacks for getting rid of hiccups and why they work
The human body is filled with all manner of weird and wonderful behaviours, but few are quite as annoying as the feeling of hiccups. The aggravating, involuntary jolt of a hiccup, can be painful, disruptive and embarrassing – and it’s…
Read More