Mums denied a caesarean then left damaged for life by 'natural births'

‘Friends were so judgmental, saying it was the easy option’: The mums being denied a caesarean – then left damaged for life by ‘natural births’ From the minute she found out she was pregnant, 31-year-old Beth Nightingale knew how she wanted to give birth. ‘On my first midwife appointment, I asked for a caesarean,’ she says. […]

‘I was told pretty girls don’t get cancer before terminal diagnosis at 16’

Sign up for Daily Star Hot Topics newsletter for the most exciting real life, fashion and sex tips HOT off the press “Pretty girls don’t get cancer” – it’s a sentence you wouldn’t expect to hear from your doctor. But as Patricia Diaz met with her GP to talk about breathlessness and other symptoms, he’d […]

Cuba grants emergency approval to second homegrown vaccine

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s drug regulator granted emergency approval for its homegrown Soberana 2 vaccine on Friday, allowing the drug’s full inclusion in the country’s inoculation program as it races to curb a Delta variant-fueled coronavirus outbreak here.FILE PHOTO: A nurse shows a dose of the Soberana-02 COVID-19 vaccine to be used in a volunteer […]

Distress signal from fat cells prompts heart to shore up defenses against consequences of obesity

A stress signal received by the heart from fat could help protect against cardiac damage induced by obesity, a new study led by UT Southwestern researchers suggests. The finding, published online in Cell Metabolism, could help explain the “obesity paradox,” a phenomenon in which obese individuals have better short- and medium-term cardiovascular disease prognoses compared with those who […]

Electronic Nose Could Track Action of Anti-PD-1 Therapy in Lung Cancer

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), exhaled-breath analysis with an “electronic nose” (eNose) may be able to monitor response to immune-checkpoint inhibitors as treatment progresses, according to a proof-of-concept study by Dutch researchers. Dr. Michel M. van den Heuvel told Reuters Health by email that the outlook for lung […]

New clues to why disability strikes people with multiple sclerosis

(HealthDay)—A new study may help explain why people with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience worsening disability while those with two related diseases do not. MS causes permanent brain and spinal cord scarring, and researchers investigated whether the same damage accompanies two rarer, similar diseases in which the immune system also attacks the central nervous system. The […]