The UK will lead a prostate cancer revolution, set to stop four in ten deaths from the disease.
The biggest trial in a generation will test the effectiveness of diagnosis techniques, with a national screening programme almost certain to follow.
In a major victory for the Daily Mail, the results of the £42million trial are expected to ‘transform’ practice, saving thousands of lives a year.
Doctors say it will also create a ‘treasure trove’ of data, samples and images that
Cats make the perfect pets – they’re low maintenance and independent. But doctors warn they may be exposing you to any number of potentially deadly diseases.
In the past few days, public health officials revealed the first person had died from Alaskapox – an extremely rare smallpox-like bacteria – and an Oregon resident was hospitalized with the Bubonic plague, an archaic disease that killed one-third of Europe’s population in the 1300s.
In both cases, the patients had caught the disease
Australia’s east coast is set to be battered by new downpours which could last for weeks – as medical experts warn the deluge could trigger deadly outbreaks of weather-related diseases.
Victorians are being told to batten down the hatches, with summer thunderstorms threatening to dump mammoth rainfall totals and cause widespread flooding on Sunday and Monday.
But weather forecasters are warning Queensland’s non-stop rain could carry on for weeks, as meteorologists dismiss the ‘misconception’ an El Nino summer means a
A new taxpayer-funded lab is being built in Colorado that will import bats from around the world and experiment on dangerous diseases, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The multi-million-dollar project is a collaboration between Dr Anthony Fauci’s old department at the National Institutes of Health, Colorado State University (CSU) and EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), a controversial research group at the center of the Covid lab leak theory.
Proposals seen by this website show how the 14,000sq-ft facility could store and study some of
The future of disease tracking is going down the drain — literally. Flushed with success over detecting coronavirus in wastewater, and even specific variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, researchers are now eyeing our collective poop to monitor a wide variety of health threats.
Before the pandemic, wastewater surveillance was a smaller field, primarily focused on testing for drugs or mapping microbial ecosystems. But these researchers were tracking specific health threats in specific places — opioids in parts
Now that the dust has settled on Covid, experts are warning that the fallout from the pandemic might kill more people than the virus ever did.
Increasingly, evidence shows that lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures and canceled hospital appointments triggered a mental health crisis, robbed children of vital learning and created a ticking time bomb scenario for cancer and heart disease patients.
But those pandemic measures appear to have made the US population more vulnerable to pathogens — both old
The approach of housing all M.S. services together, as at Sadiq’s practice, can seem less than revolutionary, but at a recent “patients as teachers” session at the Barlo Multiple Sclerosis Center, at St. Michael’s Hospital, in Toronto, the patients spoke about the value of having care from different providers be coördinated. Providers want this, too—it is sometimes called comprehensive care—but the usual demons of funding and structural change are difficult to overcome. Even the Barlo center, a strong model for
It has already been heralded as the ‘turning point’ in the decades-long war against Alzheimer’s.
But questions about whether donanemab — and two similar drugs — are really the answer to combating the devastating disease remain unanswered.
Landmark trial findings published today revealed that donanemab, given as a once-monthly infusion, slowed the decline of Alzheimer’s by up to 60 per cent.
Patients in the earliest stages of the memory-robbing disease were spared from the inevitable worsening of their symptoms.
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Leeches might seem like relics of a bygone age of medicine, but they haven’t outlived their usefulness to people yet. The freshwater leech Helobdella austinensis can eat its weight in snails every day, suggesting that leeches could be used to control freshwater snail populations — and the host of diseases they carry, researchers report April 12 in Biology Letters.
Snails spread diseases such as schistosomiasis and fascioliasis to humans and livestock. Both of those conditions are caused by flukes
The tell-tale sign that 11-year-old Mahn Singh had type 1 diabetes was all too obvious for his father Harj. ‘I suspected he had it because he was suddenly getting up to pee in the night, which is one of the symptoms,’ says Harj, 49, a financial adviser from Ealing, West London, who was himself diagnosed with the condition aged 14.
‘I had the blood testing kit because I use it every day, so I gave him the fingerprick test —
