‘I’m in constant pain’ – woman harmed by vaginal mesh urges action on redress scheme
Susan McLarnon is travelling to Downing Street later to call for “urgent action” to be taken on redress for those harmed by pelvic mesh implants.
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F.D.A. Opens Door to More Flavored E-Cigarettes
The agency is proposing allowing other tastes for vapes, like mint, coffees, spices or tea, to appeal to adults. At the same time, illicit candy-flavored types aimed at teenagers have flooded the market.
Viral Outbreaks Take a Common Path from Animals to People, Study Finds
Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab accidents.
Sent 90 miles after giving birth while ‘soaked in urine’
Four days after giving birth, Lizzy Berryman’s psychosis forced her to be taken from York to Derby for specialist care.
NHS England pauses new prescriptions of cross-sex hormones for under-18s
The health service said young people who already receive the drugs will continue to do so.
Divisive F.D.A. Vaccine Regulator Resigns
Dr. Vinay Prasad drew criticism for decisions that overrode agency scientists and rejected potential drugs.
Tory peer quits after Lords probe into PPE deals
It comes after a Lords standards probe into his contacts with ministers and advisers during the pandemic.
Demand for SA’s Ozempic-type drug EXPLODES, sales set to exceed R1.3bn
Demand for weight-loss drugs is surging in SA, with Mounjaro set to exceed R1.3bn in sales as Aspen eyes expansion into Africa.
From 2001: Beate Uhse, 81, Entrepreneur in the Business of Erotic Goods
She developed Europe’s biggest emporium of erotic goods and opened a three-story sex museum in Germany.
‘Women grow up with pain as a part of their lives’
A health campaigner says women’s relationship to pain is shaped by the way they grow up with it as a part of their lives.
No health warnings? Vapes may get different treatment under new tobacco law
Parliament is debating how vapes and smokeless products should be regulated under South Africa’s proposed new tobacco control law.
Relying on drugs to stop obesity would be ‘societal failure’, says Chris Whitty
England’s top doctor says the drugs should be for a minority and more effort is needed to prevent obesity in the first place.
How to use AI tools to support our wellbeing in safe and simple ways
Do you know the important difference between open and closed AI?
Realising an Everest Base Camp dream…
Read how an adventure to Everest Base Camp might be more attainable than you think, even for a solo woman traveller from South Africa.
It took 10 years to get surgery for my endometriosis
Ami Clarke shares her experience of living with endometriosis.
Cancer patient leaves Dubai on ‘miracle flight’
A woman arrives back in Plymouth in time to begin her chemotherapy treatment.
Charity hopes new HQ can bring people together
Health Connections is to renovate six floors of its new base as spaces for people to come together.
Surgeon’s op on patient 1,500 miles away a UK first
The milestone procedure went well, with patient Paul Buxton saying he felt “fantastic”.
Fewer Pregnant Women Received Acetaminophen in E.R.s After White House Warnings
A new analysis of prescription data found that emergency room orders for acetaminophen for pregnant women fell for weeks after the federal warning.
‘Game-changing’ urine tests could detect breast cancer, endometriosis and PCOS
New tests are being developed to spot early signs of breast cancer and endometriosis in urine.
‘Moment of reckoning’ needed in social care, says Louise Casey
The chair of the independent commission on social care recommends introducing a full-time dementia tsar, and new fast-track passport system for people diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND).