I survived a stroke at 20 – here’s the subtle symptom that I ignored EXCL: The 20-year-old dental assistant didn’t have normal symptoms of a stroke She had pain in her neck and shoulder before collapsing and getting a headache When Esmae Hodgetts was suddenly struck down by a banging headache, the 20-year-old thought nothing of it. […]
Reviewers’ Notes Whether it's setting up a Bank of England-type body to run it or fining patients for missing appointments, healthcare leaders, policymakers and practitioners past and present have a wealth of ideas about how they would change the NHS for the better. Professor Dinesh Bhugra, a psychiatrist and former president of the British Medical […]
Higher daily step counts, as measured by actigraphy, were linked to heart failure symptoms and health status, although reductions in step counts were not, in a new study. Daily step counts between 1000 and 5000 were significantly associated with symptoms and physical limitations, as reflected in Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) total symptom (TS) and […]
Reviewers’ Notes A more efficient way to test SARS-CoV-2 Virus was developed recently by a research team led by Professor WANG Junfeng from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). The novel nano-immune magnetic bead (Mal-IMB) they developed in this research can efficiently be bound to SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus in the study […]
Since the start of 2023, measles has been reported in a third of countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) European region. And in the first five months of the year, there were 5,699 cases reported there—nearly seven times as many as in the whole of 2022. The UK lost its measles-free status in 2019, […]
Urgent alert over spike in anaphylaxis as hospital admissions for life-threatening allergic reactions ‘more than double’ in a decade Hospitals treated 25,721 allergy and anaphylaxis patients in 2022/23, data shows This is up from 12,361 in 2002/03, according to the UK’s medicines watchdog The number of hospital admissions for life-threatening allergic reactions has more than […]
Dr Hilary lists the early symptoms of dementia ZOE, partially spearheaded by Tim Spector – a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London – documented the latest evidence on diet and dementia. “Scientists are still fleshing out the links between nutrients, dietary patterns, and dementia,” contributor Alexandra Sanfins, PhD, verified. “There’s no set-in-stone, evidence-based […]
A mother from Norwich, Norfolk, endured years of suffering from a perplexing illness that left her temporarily blind. Danielle Sheehan, now 32, had undergone breast implant surgery at the age of 19 after winning a £5,000 beauty makeover. Little did she know that this decision would lead to a series of health problems in the […]
Reviewers’ Notes Osivax, a biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines to provide broad-spectrum protection against highly mutating infectious viruses, today announced that The Lancet Infectious Diseases published results from the company's OVX836-003 study under the title, "Immunogenicity, safety and preliminary efficacy evaluation of OVX836, a nucleoprotein-based universal influenza A vaccine candidate: randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled, Phase 2a trial." […]
When the human head experiences any kind of movement—from nodding yes or no to heading a soccer ball or being jolted in a car crash—the brain moves inside the skull, leading to deformation of the tissue. Such deformations are key to understanding traumatic brain injury but are challenging to study since the brain is hidden […]
