Why you should NEVER clean your ear with a cotton bud: Gruesome footage shows a doctor pull a stuck Q-tip from deep inside a man’s ear canal The cotton wool had separated from the stick and become stuck by the ear drum If the ear drum is perforated it could lead to hearing loss or infection […]
A bad diet may cause polycystic ovary syndrome: Scientists find obese women with condition have more harmful gut bacteria than healthy females Scientists studied 58 teenage girls with PCOS and found guts were unbalanced Girls had more ‘bad’ bacteria linked to high levels of testosterone – a PCOS cause Colorado scientists behind study advise PCOS […]
The discarded financial savings plan, the series of lapsed diets, the exercise regimen that starts with a bang and ends just as abruptly … Most of us have very little trouble beginning the process of kicking a bad habit, but sticking to the repetitive and tedious routines that replace our old vices can be as dull […]
I’m officially dubbing 2020 the year of the vibrator. They’re just having a bit of a moment, you know? I’m not talking about the created-from-jelly-latex, transparent pink, rabbit vibrators that many of us still think of when you read the word “vibrator.” Nope — I’m talking about way more than just those. All kinds of […]
‘Portable A&E’ that can treat patients in life-threatening situations on the road ‘saves hospital £500,000 a year by preventing ambulance trips’ The Physician Response Unit (PRU) was trialled for a year by an NHS trust The car has more medical equipment and specialist doctors than an ambulance It can treat patients at the location of […]
The morning after a big holiday or birthday is guaranteed to be a rough one if you had a big night and indulged in a shot or three or one of those cute seasonal cocktails that has way more sugar than you’d realized. Hangovers do tend to get worse as you get older because your […]
Mother claims she has been left with ‘over-inflated Barbie lips’ and a ‘piggy snout’ after five ‘botched’ surgeries – and must now return to the SAME surgeon to fix them WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Ellen Gonzalez first had lip fillers in 2004 She knew straight away they were ‘too big’ and regretted the procedure She had two […]
Michelangelo’s David is perhaps the world’s most famous statue, gazed upon by millions over centuries. And yet it’s only this year that an American doctor has spotted an anatomical insight made by the artist—one that’s passed without notice on David for more than 500 years. In the vast majority of sculptures, and in the everyday […]
A $2.2 billion industry to help people lose weight through artificial sweeteners may be contributing to type 2 diabetes, according to researchers from the University of South Australia. A recently published review led by UniSA Professor Peter Clifton reveals that people who use low-calorie sweeteners (LCS) are more likely to gain weight, the exact opposite […]
The lure of running is that you can do it anywhere or anytime — all you need are shoes. But once you have kids, the spontaneous nature of going on a run tends to evaporate. Beyond getting back into running after you have a baby, there’s the new skill of learning to run with your […]
