Junior doctors are today set to stage the longest ever strike in the history of the NHS.
Workers began a six-day walkout at 7am, delaying care for tens of thousands of patients and with experts warning it would be the NHS’s ‘toughest challenge yet’.
As many as 200,000 operations and appointments could be cancelled — bringing the total number since junior doctor industrial action started to more than 1million.
The strike comes at one of the busiest times of the
It has been six years since Masterchef host Gregg Wallace was in such bad shape that doctors warned he was heading for a heart attack.
More than a decade of snacking on the set of the BBC cookery show and grabbing meals on the run had him tipping the scales at nearly 17 stone, which – given he’s 5ft 8in – left him with a dangerously obese BMI of 36.1.
Blood tests revealed his cholesterol was ‘sky-high’ – nearly three
Up to one in 12 women unknowingly carry a genetic mutation that increases their risk of having blood clots when taking the Pill.
Everyone inherits two copies of a gene called factor V (F5) from their parents, which is vital for blood to clot properly in the event of an injury.
However, eight per cent of people have a mutated version that triggers a disorder called Factor V Leiden. While it causes no symptoms, it raises their risk of
This time of year is always difficult for those who have lost a loved one, but for Melissa Mead and her husband Paul it is agonisingly so.
For it was in December 2014, with Christmas just days away, that their one-year-old son William – their firstborn and longed-for baby – died from sepsis after a catalogue of errors, misdiagnoses and missed opportunities to save him. As a result of the trauma Melissa and her husband were subsequently diagnosed with PTSD.
Doctors must stop prescribing antidepressants to patients with mild mental health problems to curb the country’s overreliance on pills, experts said today.
Antidepressant prescriptions have almost doubled in England over the last decade with 85.6million dished out in the last year alone.
Experts blame ‘overmedicalising’ issues like loneliness for the steep rise, with unnecessary drugs putting patients at risk of harm while failing to tackle the root causes of problems.
Instead, lifestyle changes alongside greater use of social prescribing, such
It looked like group therapy. One late summer day, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, sat with a group of faith leaders and clean-air campaigners in a small circle in the near-empty hall of a suburban church.
The moment was meant to be one of celebration, for Khan and for London. He was marking the creation of the largest clean air zone in the Western world through the expansion of restrictions on polluting cars to cover the entire British capital,
Having a glass or pint of your favourite tipple may make you less steady on your feet than it did a decade ago.
For the alcohol content of beer, wine and cocktails has surged in recent years.
It prompted a senior doctor this week to urge Brits not to get behind the wheel after just one alcoholic drink because they have become so strong.
Larger glass sizes, powerful New World wines and craft beers, are all to blame for booze
Brits were today urged not to get behind the wheel after just one drink, with doctors warning booze has got stronger.
The British Medical Association (BMA)’s president said the idea of ‘getting away’ with two pints ‘has always been dangerous’.
However, he cautioned that a 125ml glass of 9 per cent wine — more common when current drink-driving laws were devised in the 1960s — is now ‘virtually unheard of’.
This would equate to just over one unit.
As a
Der Dokumentarfilm von Barbara Shearer beleuchtet die medizinischen Meinungen von Ärzten, die John F. Kennedy in Dallas behandelt haben.
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