Amid worrying reports of patients piling the pounds back on after drastic weight loss… Is the NHS ‘soup and shake’ type 2 diabetes diet really the solution we’ve been waiting for? Soup and shakes diet offered on NHS to combat UK’s type 2 diabetes crisis June Davidson was deservedly proud of her achievement after following an extreme diet that put […]

I’m not an anti-vaxxer. I just lost my husband to AstraZeneca’s Covid jab two years ago and have had to sell my home to help pay the bills – because I STILL haven’t got any compensation Kam Miller, 57, from Leicester, lost her husband Neil to AstraZeneca’s vaccine Two years since his death she has still received no compensation or support READ […]

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I was well into my 20s when I got my first handbag that didn’t come from Walmart or Target. It was a black leather crossbody bag from Coach that cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $300, and when I came across it in the store, I literally hid it behind a stash of other bags in the hopes of nobody […]

For very low-birth-weight (VLBW) neonates, adoption of routine use of probiotics is associated with a reduction in the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), but not in sepsis or death, according to a study published online May 12 in JAMA Heath Forum. Leila Agha, Ph.D., from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues estimated the changes in probiotic use among neonates […]

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Rural community hematologist-oncologist and long-time Medscape contributor Jennifer Lycette, MD, talks about her dystopian medical novel, The Algorithm Will See You Now, and how she juggled becoming a published author while working and taking care of her family. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Medscape: What is your new book about and how did you come up […]

British Heart Foundation: Understanding blood clots While blood clots can prove useful, the ones that develop in your veins, also known as deep vein thrombosis, can be harmful. Deep vein thrombosis, or DVT for short, can be serious because clots that reside in your veins can break loose.  The gel-like clumps can then travel through your bloodstream and get stuck […]

Researchers from Uppsala University have developed a method that helps immune cells exit from blood vessels into a tumor to kill cancer cells. The goal is to improve treatment of aggressive brain tumors. The study has been published in the journal Cancer Cell. Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain tumor that lacks efficient treatment. This is in part due to the […]

Stacey Boss spotted a thin brown streak on her fingernail and assumed it was a bruise, little did she know at the time that the mark was actually cancer. But on the bright side, she jokes that she now gets a 10% discount on manicures, because she only has nine nails! The 32-year-old mum from Glasgow found the mark that […]