Experts have issued a safety warning for a popular anxiety medication that can cause ‘toxic’ effects, including attacks, depression and even cardiac arrest in high doses. Beta blockers, such as propranolol, are traditionally prescribed for heart problems, but are increasingly being offered by doctors to treat episodes of anxiety – because they slow the heart […]
Often the first signs of a migraine visual disruptions such as blind spots, tingling in the hands and face, weakness and changes in speech – known as the ‘aura’ phase. But there is also a less well-known period, the pre- and prodromal phase, with its own set of debilitating symptoms-including brain fog and fatigue, mood […]
Everyone suffers from time to time headache and they are usually nothing to worry about. But a doctor has shared the eight warning signals that a headache can indicate something much sinister – such as a deadly brain haemorrhage or cancer. In a viral tap video that has collected more than 1.2 million views, Dr. […]
A mother of three whose deadly brain cancer was missed by NHS doctors revealed that she has only had to live for a year, after struggling with bizarre symptoms that she assumed was proof of a mini stroke. Fiona Charles, 61, was stunned when she started experiencing ‘random and strange episodes’ last summer, with Phantom […]
I had no idea. This is the reaction I hear from family time and time again when they are told that a family member or partner is taking Ketamine. I work in a service for patients who have emerging mental disorders and many of them have used medicines such as ketamine that have caused psychosis […]
While sharks and jellyfish can be what most people are afraid of while swimming in the ocean, public health officials warn of a deadly threat on the beach. Lurking on the lurking in warm, coastal waters is the carnivorous vibrio vulnificus. These deadly bacteria can enter the body through the smallest – sometimes even imperceptible […]
I am 77 and have crispy spots on my breasts, back and stomach. Can they be cancer -like? Dr. Ellie Cannon answers: It is unlikely. These sound like seborrhoic keratoses-on-disadvantable skin growth that influence about three-quarters of people older than 70 and often appear as rough, crispy spots in shades of brown, brown or black […]
The US is confronted with a fertility crisis, because the number of new babies born every year continued to decrease while women wait later than ever to have children. From 2024, the total fertility percentage is 1.6 children per woman in the US or 1,626.5 births per 1,000 women – a sharp decrease of 66.3 […]
At the age of only 19, Nicole Sachs was told that by the time she was 40, it was unable to travel or have children. Sachs have been suffering from debilitating low back pain for years and was told by her doctor that it was caused by spondylolisthesis, a spine disease where a vertebra miped. […]
When Dominic Noonan-O’Keefe started to take a selection of supplements to help him fight common bugs, he never expected that the ‘health boost’ pills would leave him with lifelong nerve damage. Dominic Noonan-O’Keefe, 33, from Melbourne, Australia, started taking daily capsules of vitamin D, vitamin C, and what he thought was magnesium was, in the […]