A pharmacist has warned Brits not to overlook changes to their skin – because they could be vital clues to a life-threatening condition.
From a subtle discolouration to a change in texture or feel, skin can serve as a silent messenger that be the first signs of an underlying health problem.
While you may think a rash is harmless, it could actually be life-threatening – this is why it’s important to be able to identify serious changes and distinguish between
No matter how scary a horror movie might be, there is always the comforting fact that it’s ‘just a movie’.
But psychologists have found that the truth behind the films like Nosferatu or American Werewolf in London is no less strange and terrifying.
According to clinical psychologist Brian Sharpless, some classic movie monsters can actually be explained by rare psychological conditions.
From the real vampires compelled to drink human blood to people who believe they are zombies, these conditions are
Whether it’s for entertaining tourists or to harvest their bones, across the world billions of wild animals are being exploited for profit.
A shocking report shared exclusively with MailOnline has revealed that 5.5 billion wild animals from 487 different species are being kept in cruel conditions, creating a massive risk for both humans and animals.
With up to 50,000 animals on a single farm, researchers from World Animal Protection (WAP) say that the risk of an animal-borne pandemic on the
Under extremely rare circumstances, it appears that Alzheimer’s disease can be transmitted between people. Five people who received contaminated injections of a growth hormone as children went on to develop Alzheimer’s unusually early, researchers report January 29 in Nature Medicine.
The findings represent “the first time iatrogenic Alzheimer’s disease has been described,” neurologist John Collinge said January 25 in a news briefing, referring to a disease caused by a medical procedure.
That sounds alarming, but researchers are quick to
Winter is closing in and drivers in parts of Britain have already experienced snowfall this season.
With icy temperatures predicted to continue and the potential for snowfall across the country, drivers need to ensure they and their cars are ready for any eventuality.
To help you prepare, we’ve compiled a list of top 10 tips for essential checks, items to carry and how to drive in these testing conditions.
There are up to 14 different items you should consider keeping
In March 2020, Sam Cox was on a military exercise in the sweltering heat of Brunei.
When he’d left, Covid was barely making news and he had no idea what was happening in the world beyond the jungle.
But within days, Sam went from a life packed with activity to being stuck on the sofa during a national lockdown.
While most of us were sat on the sofa watching Tiger King, Sam got to work planning a record-breaking expedition across
Asylum seekers moving onto the Bibby Stockholm migrant boat have likened the conditions to the notorious Alcatraz prison.
The boat, located at Portland in Dorset, has room to accommodate up to 500 people. But one of the first people to move onto it told the BBC it felt like a prison.
The Home Office however says the barge will provide better value for the public purse. It comes as the number of small boats arriving at the British coast continues
SIG has warned trading conditions will remain ‘challenging’ this year after the construction products supplier reported a slump in profits.
Private video calls, text messages and meetings on Zoom might be used to ‘train’ artificial intelligence models.
The San Jose company’s new terms and conditions – which came into force in March but were spotted this month – have sparked a wave of outrage online, with users threatening to cancel their accounts over the change.
In one section of the new T+C’s, it says that customers consent to Zoom using data for purposes such as ‘machine learning or artificial intelligence
A rising number of women are succumbing to alcohol-related deaths, a new study published in JAMA Network on July 28 found.
While males historically have been more than twice as likely to die from alcohol-related conditions than females, the gap appears to be narrowing.
Researchers from Hofstra University in New York, Harvard Medical School and the University of South Carolina analyzed nearly 606,000 deaths linked to alcohol between 1999 and 2020, based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
