A growing chorus of the nation’s leading experts in osteoporosis are calling for the Health Secretary Wes Streeting to honour his promise to end the NHS postcode lottery which condemns millions of people to suffer preventable fractures. Before the election, […]
They’re the common cold remedies most of us have in our bathroom cabinets. But last week, over-the-counter products such as Lemsip, Sudafed and Beechams were at the centre of an unlikely controversy after the US Food and Drug Administration proposed
Anyone who knew Abigail Menoret could see she was a devoted mother who adored her two young sons. ‘She was so thoughtful – an incredibly caring person,’ her husband Francois-Marie recalls. ‘It could be just a Thursday at work, or
Ashley Stobart was 18 when she first booked in for lip fillers. For more than a decade she regularly had the injections in just about every part of her face. The jabs – medical-grade gels that are injected and sit
They do not appear to be typical candidates for a heart attack. Slim and healthy, they are fit young people who don’t smoke, and may not show any signs of type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol or high blood pressure –
Food allergies are a very modern – and escalating – epidemic. The number of Britons allergic to everyday foods such as cow’s milk, eggs, nuts and shellfish has more than doubled in ten years, the latest research shows. And it’s
The main treatment for people suffering from agonising restless leg syndrome could make the symptoms permanently worse, campaigners are warning. The condition, which affects up to 10 per cent of the population and is more common in women, causes an
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The grieving parents of a young actress who died after being misdiagnosed by a physician’s associate are joining an unprecedented legal action by senior doctors against the General Medical Council. They say they feel ‘hoodwinked’ by the regulator’s chief executive
