Scientists are scrambling to find the cause of a mystery cancer ‘epidemic’ which is striking under-50s.
Kate Middleton’s shock diagnosis last week has shone a light on the startling trend, with top doctors claiming it is a worldwide problem.
Despite years of research, researchers are baffled as to what is behind the problem.
Increased awareness thanks to the likes of Dame Deborah James, who died from bowel cancer aged 40 in 2022, and improved diagnosis methods are thought to have
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
There has been a 320 per cent rise in cancelled driving test bookings in the past 10 years due to examiners being off sick, on holiday or taking part in strikes, This is Money can exclusively reveal.
In the year to April 2023, 113,000 test bookings were axed at the last minute because examiners were unable to attend. This is up from 26,429 in 2012, official figures show.
With more than half a million learners still waiting to sit their
For more than 100 days, Hollywood writers have been on strike; in July, actors joined them, causing a work stoppage in Los Angeles unseen for a generation. Together, the two groups—the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA)—have effectively stalled Hollywood’s endless engine as they petition for better solutions to the
For more than 100 days, Hollywood writers have been on strike; in July, actors joined them, causing a work stoppage in Los Angeles unseen for a generation. Together, the two groups—the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA)—have effectively stalled Hollywood’s endless engine as they petition for better solutions to the
Striking junior doctors were today accused of running a ‘politically-motivated’ campaign aimed at bringing down the Government.
The British Medical Association (BMA) welcomed a pay offer from the Scottish government last month and is balloting its members on the package north of the border.
But Dr Robert Laurenson, co-chair of the BMA’s junior doctors committee, sparked fury by signalling he would not agree the same deal with the ‘ideological’ Tories in Westminster.
Junior doctors, seeking a salary hike of 35
One Brit has died in a mysterious E. coli outbreak that is predominantly affecting children, MailOnline understands.
Another six have been hospitalised by an exceptionally rare strain of the diarrhoea-causing bug.
Health officials are scrambling to find the source of the outbreak, which is thought to have emerged towards the end of May. Investigations are ongoing.
Patients reported eating grated hard cheese before being sickened, it was claimed. Others mentioned having strawberries, cucumbers, peppers and watermelon.
But officials insist there
As Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly plan a production of Canadian novelist Carley Fortune’s romance novel Meet Me at the Lake in a bid to get their Hollywood dream back on track, they are said to have been captivated by the plot.
New York Times Bestselling author Fortune’s second novel is a romance about two long-lost lovers, Will and Fern, whose paths cross by chance a decade after first meeting and sparks fly between the pair.
An insider has
To pack three seasons’ worth of English soccer stadiums with exasperated or exhilarated crowds, the Apple TV+ comedy “Ted Lasso” turned to dozens of background actors and powerful visual effects technology.
Using a technique known as crowd tiling, the company Barnstorm VFX helped film groups of extras in one alignment before rearranging them and filming them again, and then cutting and pasting the various groupings to fill all the seats. The show’s makers also used crowd sprites, in which actors
Shares in online shopping giant Amazon surged last night after it became the latest tech giant to smash Wall Street forecasts.
The world’s biggest online retailer posted sales of £106billion for the three months to June, 11 per cent higher than in 2022 and above the £103billion predicted by analysts.
It
