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Vaping almost KILLED me: Mum, 26, was rushed to hospital unable to breathe and dizzy after getting pneumonia from e-cig addiction

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A mother was left fearing her toddler would grow up without a parent after being rushed to hospital with vaping-related pneumonia. 

Jodie Hudson, from Worksop in Nottinghamshire, swapped cigarettes for e-cigarettes two years ago as she was seeking a less harmful alternative.

The 26-year-old would vape ‘anywhere and everywhere’ — getting through a vape every day — and had no intention of quitting.

But last month she suffered severe bouts of dizziness and breathlessness that left her struggling to move,

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One in six GPs fail to give patients face-to-face appointments with many medics saying they are ‘unable to meet demand’

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One in six GPs have failed to provide patients with face-to-face appointments as many medics claim they are unable to meet demand, a new poll has found.

Doctors implemented a virtual appointment protocol during the first covid lockdown, meaning that less than half of patients were examined in-person. Before the pandemic, about 80 per cent of appointments were face-to-face.

NHS England reversed its ‘total triage’ policy, which encouraged doctors to deal with more cases remotely, in 2021 after all patients

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Warning over new ketamine side effect which can leave takers of the party drug unable to urinate

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Experts have raised the alarm over a little-known side effect of ketamine, a popular drug among students.

Ketamine, also used as a horse tranquiliser and sold for as little as £3 per dose, can inflame the bladder and leave users unable to urinate. Its effects can mimic that of cystitis, an agonising UTI. 

Academics labelled it a ‘poorly understood’ phenomenon, given it has only been documented in a handful of medical reports.

But up to a quarter of patients who

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