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
A mother has urged all pregnant women to take the whooping cough jab after her newborn spent 10 days in a coma with the infection.
Polly Deehy, from Dartford, Kent, was an otherwise healthy baby until her terrifying ordeal.
In April, at just two weeks old, she developed a rattly cough that left her struggling to breathe.
She was rushed to hospital four days later by her parents when she suddenly turned blue, her mother Kerry Pearson revealed.
After her
Anti-vaxxers today called for Pfizer and Moderna to urgently withdraw their Covid jabs in the wake of heightened safety fears.
AstraZeneca’s landmark decision to withdraw its lockdown-banishing vaccine from global markets sparked hysteria online about the rival jabs – made using pioneering tech never utilised until the virus crisis spawned.
The UK-based pharmaceutical titan insisted its decision was a commercial one due to demand being slim, with its jab no longer being manufactured.
Ministers favour superior mRNA jabs, like those
AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine, developed by scientists from the prestigious Oxford University, was meant to be a post-Brexit success story.
Not only was it supposed to be a shining example of British ingenuity which would banish the devastating Covid pandemic and sentence lockdowns to history, it was also meant to demonstrate the UK’s generosity in the global crisis, with the jab sold at cost, not for profit.
Ministers were so confident in its success that then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock privately labelled
AstraZeneca has admitted in court for the first time that its Covid jab can cause a deadly blood clotting side effect.
The exceedingly rare reaction is at the heart of a multi million-pound class action by dozens of families who allege they, or their loved ones, were maimed or killed by the pharmaceutical titan’s ‘defective’ vaccine.
Lawyers representing the claimants believe some of the cases could be worth up to £20m in compensation.
Cambridge-based AstraZeneca, which is contesting the claims,
Eine neue Blockbuster-Abnehmpille des Herstellers Ozempic könnte bereits 2026 auf den Markt kommen.
Der Pharmariese Novo Nordisk stellte gestern vielversprechende erste Ergebnisse für sein experimentelles Medikament Amycretin vor, die zeigten, dass Patienten nach nur 12 Wochen mehr als 13 Prozent ihres Gewichts verlieren könnten.
Im Gegensatz dazu hilft die bahnbrechende Schlankheitsspritze Wegovy Menschen nachweislich dabei, im gleichen Zeitraum bis zu sechs Prozent abzunehmen.
Eine Phase-2-Arzneimittelstudie werde in der zweiten Jahreshälfte beginnen, die Ergebnisse würden Anfang 2026 erwartet, teilte das Unternehmen
A mother-of-two controversially won’t give her children the MMR vaccine because she fears the jab would do ‘more harm than good’.
Stacey Victoria, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, claims the vaccine — proven to be extremely safe and credited with saving the lives of tens of thousands of kids — was made too quickly.
‘Forcing’ her daughters Emily (nine) and Isabella (six) to get jabbed is ‘not fair’, she added. Neither have had any NHS-approved vaccines.
The 36-year-old, who herself hasn’t
Fears of an impending measles resurgence today sparked a national ‘call to action’ by health chiefs who are alarmed over vaccination rates slumping to a 10-year low.
As few as half of children have had both measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jabs in parts of London.
Similarly low levels are also seen in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.
Dame Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UKHSA, begged parents to check their child’s immunisation status, warning that the public had ‘forgotten what
A row has erupted between cardiology experts and GP leaders over prescribing a breakthrough heart drug that could save tens of thousands of lives.
The medicine, called inclisiran, is a twice-a-year jab that slashes levels of so-called ‘bad’ cholesterol by more than 50 per cent after just two weeks. It has been approved for use on the NHS since 2021 for patients with stubbornly high cholesterol levels who have already suffered a heart attack.
NHS England say the drug could
When Michelle Sword emerged from her near-death experience she recalls doctors asking a series of probing questions as she lay in her hospital bed.
‘They asked whether I had an eating disorder, or I had intended to kill myself,’ Michelle recalls. ‘I told them no — I was just an idiot who should have known better.’
Only a few hours earlier, the 45-year-old mother of two had injected herself with a weight-loss drug pen that she had bought on the
