A single moment was all it took for our world to be seismically changed for ever. In 2008, my husband, Simon — a relentlessly, even irritatingly, healthy 38-year-old musician and part-time construction worker — fell backwards off an unsecured second-storey scaffold on to a stone floor, suffering catastrophic injuries to his brain and spinal cord.
Rushed to hospital by air ambulance, the head neurosurgeon later told us that when Simon had arrived in his operating room he was ‘half way
A 62-year-old sales assistant stuck on a two-year waiting list with pain so severe ‘it sometimes takes my breath away’. The couple in their 70s both barely able to walk, reliant on powerful codeine drugs and battling depression. And the businesswoman struggling with ‘irreversible’ spine damage after being fobbed off with physiotherapy when what she needed was scans and medication.
These are just a few of the harrowing stories from Mail on Sunday readers with back problems that have been
Women are quitting vital drugs that treat the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis because of ‘dangerous misinformation’ about their side effects being spread on Facebook, experts have warned.
Scaremongering posts seen by The Mail on Sunday falsely claim the drugs, known as bisphosphonates, are equivalent to ‘rust remover’. Others say the tablets actually worsen, rather than prevent, the disease.
Yet failing to take the medication means patients face serious, life-changing fractures, permanent disability and death, doctors say.
Osteoporosis mainly affects women –
Michael Adams was 16 when, after being thrown from his car in a devastating accident, he fractured his skull in three places.
The film producer from New York fell into a coma for two weeks, and woke up a shadow of his former bright, fun-loving self.
For the following decade, he had trouble speaking, making friends and completing the simplest of daily tasks due to extensive nerve damage to his brain.
Until, that is, he happened across what is perhaps
A firebrand politician named Donald is about to stand trial. Just a few days before jury selection, he goes on TV to slam the charges as baseless and biased.
“The FBI and the Justice Department,” he insists, have “targeted” their political opponents in a burst of partisan persecution.
The rhetoric sounds familiar, but this is not a story about Donald Trump. It’s about a man named Don Hill, a former Dallas City Council member who was facing bribery charges 15 years … Read more
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
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Prinzessin Diana‘s jüngerer Bruder, Charles Spencerhat enthüllt, dass er in einem „Wohnbehandlungszentrum“ wegen Traumata Hilfe suchte, nachdem er sich beim Schreiben seiner neuen Memoiren erneut mit Kindesmissbrauch befasst hatte und einen „Zusammenbruch“ erlitten hatte Eine
There are ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe Hamas committed rape, ‘sexualized torture,’ and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during its surprise attack in southern Israel on October 7, a report from the United Nations has concluded.
There are also ‘reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing,’ said Pramila Patten, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, who visited Israel and the West Bank from January 29 to February 14 with a nine-member technical team.
Brits are flying to Ukraine for dental treatment because of the ever-worsening NHS crisis.
Industry leaders and MPs have warned that patients have been left with no option but to jet out to the war-torn nation after being unable to get help in the UK.
The crisis in NHS dentistry has been brewing for years, with some Brits even forced to pull out their own teeth with pliers.
Others have queued from 4am to gain a spot at dentistry practices
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Deploying the language of “helping” those in need, policymakers are reaching not for a Band-Aid but a club.
Jason Wright holds a sign reading “mental health is not a crime” in Boston on May 17, 2020.
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