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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
For years, the mother of two Kirsten Macpherson struggled to get out of bed, with severe muscle stiffness and an overwhelming feeling of fear. In her late 40s, she knew that something was wrong, but doctors repeatedly said that her symptoms were caused by the menopause, and assured her that medication would make it easier. […]
By Ethan Ennals Published: 00:40 BST, May 25, 2025 | Updated: 00:43 BST, May 25, 2025 Patients with severe intestinal disorders will benefit from a new drug that can eliminate their painful symptoms in just three months. The one -off Jab, Guselkumab, treats the colitis of Crohn and Ulcerosa, two debilitating conditions that occur when […]
By John Ely Deputy Health editor for MailOnline Published: 00:53 BST, May 23, 2025 | Updated: 01:25 BST, May 23, 2025 Scientists can now predict how you are probably to undergo a potentially deadly fall in your 60s based on how you walk in your 20S. Falls are an important cause of injury and death […]
A 26-year-old woman with advanced cervical cancer has warned women to never miss regular smears she has mistaken her symptoms for complications caused by contraception. Jasmin McKee, from Southampton, began to experience bleeding after sex in February last year, but assumed that it was the result of a recent procedure that suited her intra -uterine […]
Steve Overend initially wondered if the stiffness in his jaw was a dental problem. At a family barbecue he noticed that he could not open his mouth wide enough to eat a bread roll. “It wasn’t painful, but it was very strange – it felt like my jaw had stopped working,” Steve recalls, 66, a […]