Day December 8, 2022

Britain should dish out Covid-style home testing for Strep A, experts have started demanding as panicked parents begin to pile even more pressure on crippled NHS services. Nine children have already died of a rare complication of the usually-mild bacterial…

Chris Kamara has claimed he could have avoided the speech condition that forced him to quit his job if he ‘wasn’t a dinosaur’ and got checked sooner. The legendary former Sky Sports pundit revealed he had apraxia of speech in…

The number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment has surged to another all-time high, NHS figures revealed today amid warnings that upcoming strikes will cause even more chaos on the crippled service. More than 7.2million patients in England were…

Cancer in children accounts for less than one in every 100 cancers each year, but this still means around four children under 15 years are told they have cancer each day in England. It is the news that no family…

Fifteen children have now died from Strep A in Britain this winter as the killer bug outbreak rumbles on. Victims include Stella-Lilly McCorkindale, a five-year-old girl from Northern Ireland, Hannah Roap, a ‘bubbly’ seven-year-old from Wales, and Muhammad Ibrahim Ali, a…

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We’re constantly told to eat fewer ultraprocessed foods. A raft of studies over the years have warned of the dangers of eating too many biscuits, cakes and crisps.   And researchers yesterday added to the ever-growing body of evidence, with data…

Almost 260 Britons have been struck down by E. coli outbreak linked to SALADS The cases occurred across the country through August to October  Full details have only just been made public by the Food Standards Agency There have been…

A blood test could detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease years before symptoms appear. Most patients receive a diagnosis for Alzheimer’s only after they develop memory problems, but an early sign of the disease comes from clumps of a protein called…

Could COVID hold key to curing cancer? Virus’ notorious spike protein kills hard-to-treat lung tumors in lab studies Covid interacts with a naturally-occurring enzyme to kill cancerous lung tumors Chicago researchers found it worked in mice and on human cells…

Children with sore throats shouldn’t attend school because they may have Strep A, official guidance suggested today.  Department for Education bosses also list headaches, which can be a sign of dozens of ailments, as a symptom of the usually-harmless bug.…