At this time last year, Adrian Taylor was given a devastating prognosis: he had incurable cancer in his lungs and without treatment there was a 100 per cent chance he’d die from it, potentially within months.
But now, thanks to a clinical trial for a cancer vaccine – a UK first – he says ‘that despair turned to hope. I am not dying of cancer, I’m living with it and feeling great’.
Adrian, 54, a supply chain consultant, was diagnosed
The NHS has vowed to diagnose and treat cancer patients quicker after ministers accepted its request to streamline performance targets.
The controversial reforms will see the number of cancer waiting time indicators that hospitals are measured against slashed from ten to three.
Health chiefs argue the changes ‘reflect what matters most to patients’ and will improve care by reducing bureaucracy and ‘aligning with modern clinical practice’.
But critics described the move as ‘deeply worrying’ and accused the NHS and government
Gospel singer Tori Kelly is on the road to recovery.
Kelly, 30, is back home after spending several days hospitalized as she reportedly suffered from severe blood clots.
The two-time Grammy Award winner shared an update with her fans on social media by posting a series of heartfelt videos and photos.
GRAMMY-WINNING GOSPEL SINGER TORI KELLY ‘FEELING STRONGER’ AFTER REPORTEDLY BEING HOSPITALIZED FOR BLOOD CLOTS
Tori Kelly was reportedly being treated for severe blood clots. (Getty Images)
“home sweet home,”
Little Phoenix Reum, born by surrogate to Paris Hilton and her husband Carter, is gurgling happily today in his crib in the family’s extravagant mansion in an upscale neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
The two-month-old is a dream come true for the 42-year-old reality TV star, who says she longed for years to become a mother.
But the birth was not a conventional one —instead of going through pregnancy herself, the heiress-turned-businesswoman chose to find a surrogate to gestate and deliver
It’s officially Virgo season, which means it’s time to focus on building a solid relationship from the ground-up. Of all the five love languages, the one that represents Virgo’s brand of love will always be acts of service, which is why your love horoscope for the week of August 29 to September 4 is encouraging you to focus on actions over empty promises. After all, Virgo is always searching for concrete evidence, and if your words aren’t lining up with … Read more
For anyone with a chronic condition, key challenges include the need for regular checks, unsuitable appointment times, costly parking and hours hanging about in hospital as clinics overrun — let alone the discomfort from their illness.
But technological advances mean many could have their health closely monitored in their own homes, rather than in hospital.
In fact, for some 280,000 NHS patients in England, home monitoring and ‘virtual wards’ (more frequent remote checks when patients need more intensive monitoring) are
By Charlotte Daly for MailOnline
The 2016 Australian Open was a bit of a disaster for Kyrgios. He complained about the music, swore excessively and threw his racket across the court during his loss to Tomas Berdych.
Berdych took the first set in 35 minutes, with Kyrgios appearing to complain towards his box – which contained Aussie great Lleyton Hewitt – that there was not enough vocal encouragement.
However, the most
Six in 10 hospitalised Covid ‘patients’ in London are now primarily being treated for other ailments, according to official statistics.
NHS England’s most up-to-date figures, released today, show almost 3,000 beds were occupied by patients who were infected with the virus on January 18. But just 1,200 were mainly unwell with the coronavirus, with the others treated for separate conditions.
The proportion of patients who are incidentally infected has fallen in line with explosion of Omicron, illustrating how the current
An intensive care doctor today said every critically ill coronavirus-infected patient currently being treated at his hospital is unvaccinated.
Dr David Hepburn said there are now no vaccinated Covid patients in critical care at Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, South Wales.
The £350million Specialist Critical Care Centre, which has 24 ICU beds, was opened four months early in November 2020 in order to tackle spiralling coronavirus cases at the time.
But Dr Hepburn said the only people now in treatment
Nearly four in ten Covid patients in hospitals in England are not primarily being treated for the virus, according to official data that highlights the mildness of Omicron.
NHS figures released today show there were around 13,000 beds occupied by coronavirus sufferers on January 4, of which nearly 4,850 were not mainly sick with the disease. It means close to 40 per cent of patients included in the Government’s daily Covid statistics may have been admitted for something else, such
