For 45 years Tony Murphy was a solid 20-a-day smoker. His occasional attempts at quitting lasted at best days, often only hours, as his craving for a cigarette was so strong. But the father-of-five has not had a cigarette now […]
Cradling her newborn daughter just hours after giving birth, Somayya Gefuri suddenly felt a burning heat surge inside her body and rise to her skin, leaving her sweating and her face flushed. Worried, the supermarket worker from Birmingham asked the
Exhausted after a night shift on a busy hospital ward, Dr Vishwaraj Vemala fell asleep almost as soon as he boarded his flight to India, only to be nudged awake by his mother a few hours later telling him there
Sitting in A&E aged just 19 and in her second year of university with agonising, swollen ankles – the latest in a long line of unexplained health complaints – it dawned on Rachel Hall how unwell she was. The doctor
Charging around the playground, blonde curls bobbing, it is hard to believe that three-year-old Molly Young has been ill for even one day in her life. But just weeks after her birth, she was on the brink of death. Born
Injecting tiny grains of plastic into the knee joint could offer hope to patients crippled by arthritis pain, NHS research suggests. The ground-breaking technique requires only a local anaesthetic, a few hours in hospital and leaves little, if any, scarring.
