When Hayley Drew discovered she was pregnant with twins, she was over the moon. The path to the pregnancy hadn’t been straightforward — her husband had to have a vasectomy reversed, then she’d undergone IVF.
But, miraculously, this worked after just one cycle, the pregnancy and labour went smoothly, and then she delivered two ‘beautifully perfect’ and healthy babies.
Her joy at the birth of Isabella and Ella is written all over the picture you see here. But 29 days
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
Emma Saunders, an actress and photographer, went to her father’s private GP in Chelsea with tinnitus in November 2020. ‘I’d woken up with a loud ringing in my ears — it was distressing because I’d not had anything like it before and didn’t know what was going on,’ she says.
‘I went privately because I expected the doctor to have contacts and to refer me to a specialist for tests.’
Instead, the GP prescribed a tranquilliser, lorazepam, telling Emma, then
Some physicians are doing unnecessary and invasive surgery on pregnant patients “to preserve the appearance of not doing an abortion.”
Surgeons performing a “classic cesarean section.”
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When news that Lizelle Gonzalez was suing the local prosecutor’s office for more than $1 million in damages, after being falsely imprisoned for murder over an attempted self-managed abortion in 2022, reproductive rights advocates cheered the move as a pathway to justice for the wrongfully charged southern
Boobs. Baps, bosoms, jugs… norks. Coconuts, melons, puppies, the twins, the girls. Waps, tatas, cha-chas, knockers, honkers, bongos, bazookas. Obviously, I’m talking about breasts.
There are few organs – bar one or two, erm, obvious examples – that have as many nicknames or are given as much thought or airtime. Much of it relates to their sexual function.
On the flip side, it’s still pretty common to hear talk of whether or not breastfeeding, the primary purpose of breasts, is
Cancer has long been a disease that many people fear most — it has also long been a condition we associate with older age. But something alarming has been happening over the past three decades.
While deaths from cancer continue to decline, younger people — including those who appear healthy and fit — are increasingly getting cancers that used to be the preserve of older age groups.
The diagnosis of the Princess of Wales with cancer at just 42 reflects
In April 2022, Nick Sawyer sat down before a committee of the California State Assembly to argue for legislation to help limit the spread of COVID falsehoods. Sawyer, an emergency-room physician, had become frustrated by what he saw as the failure of his profession to respond to doctors sharing false information about the pandemic. He’d co-founded an advocacy group, No License for Disinformation (NLFD), and now he was testifying in favor of legislation that warned doctors of professional consequences for
The toddler who fell of his bike and scraped his knee. The woman with a common bowel disease injury. And the man with Strep throat.
All are victims of a minor, treatable problems that turned deadly in a matter of seconds. Thankfully, all four survived – but left with life-changing injuries, including legs so destroyed they had to be amputated.
The culprit is a terrifying condition that occurs in response to a minor infection, and affects one American every 20-seconds:
Inside a generic government-office conference room in downtown Indianapolis, Caitlin Bernard sat before six members of Indiana’s Medical Licensing Board, whose cases typically involve complaints against physicians who bilked a patient or drove while drunk. But at this hearing the subject was the intricacies of patient-privacy rules. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a reporter had overheard Bernard tell a fellow-doctor that a ten-year-old girl from Ohio was coming to Indianapolis
A heartbroken father claims Martha’s Rule, which grants hospital patients’ relatives the right to a second medical opinion, could have saved his son’s life.
Balram Patel died at St Thomas’ Hospital in London in August last year from a build-up of fluid that flooded his lungs.
The 30-year-old had multiple disabilities and suffered from six conditions, including rare ones which affected his heart and lung, as well as liver cancer. His illnesses saw him spend weeks as an inpatient at
