Women are taking to social media to share how their rare cancers were dismissed as exaggerations or misdiagnosed as anxiety, letting the disease progress without treatment until it was too late for a cure.
A 14-year-old who lost more than 50 pounds in just a few months and would pass out from coughing said doctors blamed her symptoms on eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.
Another young woman with a rare bone cancer claims she had tests results kept from
One evening in 1981, the popular BBC1 programme Nationwide broadcast an interview with one of the most loved musical parterships of the time: The Carpenters, a squeaky-clean duo, comprising the velvet-voiced singer Karen and her brother Richard.
They were interviewed by Sue Lawley, and fans no doubt expected to hear about new record releases and concerts that the American pair had planned. Instead, viewers saw a painfully thin, gaunt and fragile-looking Karen sitting on a sofa – her huge, brown
The months-long publicity blitz and box-office triumph of “Barbie”—which earned a hundred and fifty-five million dollars on its opening weekend, giving the director Greta Gerwig and the nascent Mattel Films the biggest début of 2023—has been a dazzling confetti blast of media total war, as inevitable as a bright-pink Abrams tank. It is a relief (if not a surprise, given Gerwig’s track record) that “Barbie” is also witty and inventive, a good rosé sparkling amid the usual summer-blockbuster sludge. But,
The devastating impact Instagram is having on young girls is laid bare today in shocking photos which show the rapid deterioration of two once happy pre-teen girls who became obsessed with dieting and eventually tried to kill themselves as an apparent result of what they saw on the app.
Kentucky mothers Candace Wuest and Jennifer Martin are suing Instagram’s parent company Meta in separate lawsuits filed on Monday. They claim the app targeted their daughters – and millions of other
