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Hebden Bridge woman says vaginal mesh ruined her life
A mother-of-two claims she can no longer have sex with her husband after she was fitted with a controversial vaginal mesh...
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Baby is left blind and deaf after getting meningitis
Marc and Amy Young took their baby Eliza Jane to Malta at the end of May Within hours of arriving, Eliza was rushed to hospital...
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Scientists may be one step closer to an HIV cure
Cows developed an immune response in as little as 35 days after HIV infection One immune cell in particular binds to a site...
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John McCain’s brain cancer diagnosis explained
Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with a malignant primary brain tumor after being hospitalized for a blood clot just...
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Love Island is fueling the taboo that ‘big boys don’t cry’
Love Island viewers turned on Olivia for belittling emotional boyfriend Chris as he had to wipe away his tears. The widely...
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B&Q customers who used Valspar paint suffer bad headaches
Scores of BQ customers have been struck down with headaches after using paint that smells like cat urine. The company’s...
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Social cancer patients are more likely to live
Patients who interact with other sufferers have a 68% risk of death in five years This is compared to a 69.5% risk if patients...
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Couples who live together share microbes
Couples who live together share a kitchen, living room and maybe a bathroom – and they also share each other’s...
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Why This Grieving Mother Is Saying ‘Don’t Let People Kiss Your Baby’
“HSV is not a common infection [in infants], but it can happen and we do see it,” says Danelle Fisher, M.D., chair...
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8 Guys Share What They Really Thought When They Saw Their Brides Walk Down The Aisle
“I recall thinking I had to make sure I remembered every moment of what was about to happen, because it was going to be...
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11 Women Share What A Panic Attack Really Feels Like
I had my first panic attack in college. My boyfriend and I were driving on the freeway from the Chicago suburbs to a party...
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Opioid Treatment Funds In Senate Bill Would Fall Far Short Of Needs
The morphine-like pain killer Oxycontin is just one of a number of opioids fueling a substance use crisis in...
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Elephant Seals Can Recognize Rhythm And Pitch
Northern elephant seals recognize each other’s voices based on rhythm and pitch. ...
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John McCain Was Diagnosed With A Glioblastoma, Among The Deadliest Of Cancers
Glioblastomas are the most common malignant brain tumor. About 12,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with...
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FDA clears first neonatal magnetic resonance imaging device
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device specifically for neonatal...
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Hamilton doc sits in sweltering car to show parents the risks to their kids
Locked in a Jeep 4×4 in the parking lot of McMaster Children’s Hospital, Dr. Anthony Crocco is starting to look...
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Manufacturer urges standards for wire bristle barbecue brushes
A Canadian manufacturer says safety standards need to be imposed on wire bristle barbecue brushes sold in this country. Currently,...
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For 1st time, over half of people with HIV taking medications
For the first time in the global AIDS epidemic that has spanned four decades and killed 35 million people, more than half...
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‘I was actually offended’: Man on Indigenous cancer therapies initially told oncologist wouldn’t monitor him
A Métis man who opted to use Indigenous therapies for his terminal cancer instead of chemotherapy was initially turned...
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1 in 3 dementia cases are potentially preventable, report says
One in three cases of dementia could be prevented by tackling risk factors such as education and depression, a large new...
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Zion Harvey: Double hand transplant boy plays baseball
Media captionZion says he wants to write to the parents of the child whose hands he now has A US boy who made...
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Births to foreign-born mothers hit 28% in England and Wales
The number of foreign-born mothers having babies in England and Wales in 2016 reached 28% – the highest level on record,...
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Tobacco firms ‘hamper anti-smoking push’
The tobacco industry is hampering efforts to introduce life-saving interventions in low and middle-income countries, according...
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Plan not to give HPV vaccine to boys causes concern
A decision not to vaccinate boys against a cancer-causing sexually transmitted infection has attracted fierce criticism. Reported...
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‘Too many’ patients locked in for mental health care
Too many patients are locked into mental health rehabilitation wards far from home, a review of England’s psychiatric...
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Half of pupils expelled from school ‘mentally ill’
Half of pupils expelled from England’s schools have a mental health issue, according to analysis of official data. The...
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Aids deaths halve as more get drugs
Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The condition, which is caused by HIV, used to be...
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Nine lifestyle changes can reduce dementia risk, study says
Media captionWant to avoid dementia? This might help One in three cases of dementia could be prevented if more...
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Scientists reveal how patterns of brain activity direct specific body movements
Mathematical visualizations, or matrices, of the correlations of neural activity in the same mouse...
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Doctor who linked kids’ lead exposure to health issues dies
A pediatrician and University of Pittsburgh researcher who linked lead exposure in children to health and intelligence issues...
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Climate change and sugarcane expansion expected to boost hantavirus cases
Climate change and sugarcane expansion is expected to boost hantavirus cases. Credit: chillmimi,...
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Google searches can be used to track dengue in underdeveloped countries
The dengue virus is transmitted to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti...
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Heart toxin reveals new insights into HIV-1 integration in T cell genome
Digoxin exposes link between T cell activation and targeted HIV-1 integration in specific genes....
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In making decisions, are you an ant or a grasshopper?
Although it may seem less appealing, the gratification-delaying strategy of the ant depicted in...
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Opioids and obesity, not ‘despair deaths,’ raising mortality rates for white Americans
Credit: University of Colorado at Boulder Drug-related deaths among middle-aged white men...
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Speech language therapy delivered through the Internet leads to similar improvements as in-person treatment
A recent study by Dr. Jed Meltzer, neurorehabilitation scientist at Baycrest’s Rotman Research...
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Diagnosis: Why Couldn’t This Man Stop Hiccupping?
But this doctor was concerned. Hiccups could come out of nowhere and stay, but when they lasted this long, you had to at...
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Something Strange in Usain Bolt’s Stride
“Generally there are small differences between the right and left leg, but I think they are normally about 1, 2, 3 percent,”...
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Doctors: The Risk of Exertional Heatstroke to Young Athletes
Some of this risk could be reduced if high school athletic organizations followed the lead of professional and college teams...
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Certain Antibiotics May Increase Risk of Birth Defects
Photo A large study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology found that certain antibiotics...