Medicine

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Katelyn Clement, 25, with Milo Nicholson, five

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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a warning about buying weight-loss drugs online.

Warning issued for anyone buying weight-loss drugs online

King Charles III and Queen Camilla meeting members of the public following the Easter Mattins Service at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in Berkshire

Oncologist explains King Charles cancer battle continuing into 2025

Sir Chris Hoy celebrating winning the Gold Medal in the Men's Keirin at the London 2012 Olympics. PIC: Stephen Pond/PA Wire

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Pete Waterman with his son Paul aged 17

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Oxford Medical Products announces positive results in weight-loss clinical trial

Ad Feature Company announces positive results in weight-loss clinical trial

Mike Randell passed away from bowel cancer in 2022 but wrote to Sophie, giving his blessing for her to marry boyfriend, Ash Humphrey

Father with terminal cancer wrote daughter a note for after his death

A warning has been issued to families at UK airports as items such as children’s medicine Calpol has been flagged as an explosive by security scanners. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Chaos for families at UK airports as scanners flag kids medicine

Research of 2,000 adults revealed Queen Victoria’s 63-year reign from 1837 to 1901 and the Tudor period were other areas of interest

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Great Ormond Street Hospital has launched an urgent review after concerns were raised over the practice of a former surgeon.

Children's hospital launches urgent review into orthopaedic surgeon

A new ‘breakthrough’ dry blood test could provide early prostate cancer detection

New 'breakthrough' prostate cancer test could provide early detection

The virus is thought to have originated in pale throat sloths. (Photo: Pexels, Steve Paton)

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Lecanemab is designed to target and clear a protein called amyloid from patient’s brains (Photo: Adobe)

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Madi Foster, 20, was diagnosed with a one-in-three million cancer - after her symptoms were mistaken for anxiety.

Woman diagnosed with cancer after symptoms mistaken for anxiety

Two people in Brazil have died from the Oropouche virus, which has been dubbed 'Sloth fever'. (Photo: Pixabay)

First cases of Brazilian 'sloth fever' detected in Europe

Legendary singer Macy Gray was rushed to hospital and left unable to walk after taking weight loss drug Ozempic.

Legendary singer Macy Gray rushed to hospital after using Ozempic
Legendary singer Macy Gray was rushed to hospital while filming a TV show after suffering side effects from weight loss drug Ozempic.
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Almost a quarter of people do not know the difference between a physicians associate and a doctor a new poll has discovered. (Photo: Pexel/Etatics Inc)

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Woman's extreme allergic reaction to mosquito bite on holiday in the Caribbean

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Prescription drugs including codeine could land you in trouble if you take them abroad. (Photo: Pexel, Karolina Kaboompics)

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Chimpanzees - one of our closest animal relatives - have been observed self-medicating with medicinal plants (Photo: GUERCHOM NDEBO/AFP via Getty Images)

Chimp study reveals 13 new plants that could have medicinal uses

Former subpostmaster Alan Bates the founder of Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance who was played by Toby Jones in an ITV drama about the scandal, said he was “honoured” by his knighthood.

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Dr Michael Mosley

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Eva Tilley and her little brother Isaac

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Sophie Spencer-Beeley says joining in the 'world's biggest water fight' while on a Thai holiday left her hospitalised twice with a horror stomach bug. Picture: Kennedy News

'World's biggest water fight' left holidaymaker hospitalised

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TikTok influencer Kimberly Nix has died of metastatic sarcoma at 31

Tragic star announces her own death

Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan, suffered the nasty face injury three days prior (Photo: Armas/Suaq Project/PA Wire)

Orangutan spotted using medicinal plant on an injury
This is believed to be the first time an animal has been observed putting a painkilling plant directly onto a wound.
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The world's first personalised skin cancer jab has begun its third phase of testing, with more than 1,000 British patients set to be administered the "gamechanging" vaccine. (Credit: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire)

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Jean-Paul Vignon dead at 89: The actor and singer who starred in Shrek and the Gilmore Girls, has passed away

Actor and singer dies

Philip Holland, who is diabetic and struggles to get hold of his medication, Ozempic, which people also take to suppress their appetite.

'I'm diabetic - could lose my eyesight because of weight-loss trend'

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Actor and comedian Amy Schumer, pictured in 2022. (Picture: Getty Images)

Amy Schumer diagnosed with Cushing's syndrome

King Charles III will attend hospital next week to be treated for an enlarged prostate, Buckingham Palace said.

King Charles: Are enlarged prostates cancerous? Treatment explained

Pharmacists in England will now treat seven minor illnesses to help free up GP appointments. Picture: Getty Images

Pharmacists to start treating seven minor illnesses

(L-R) Aiden & Lucas Pickerill. Picture: Nicola Minshall / SWNS

Twins die just 6 weeks apart

Dame Esther Rantzen. (Picture: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire)

Dame Esther Rantzen urges MPs to revisit assisted dying

According to a survey, one in three consumers keep medicine past its expiry date because they think it could still be useful

Experts warn against using out-of-date medicine

Old Moore’s Almanac 2024 predictions include advancements in AI, an assisination warning for Donald Trump and a huge decline in birth rates. Composite image by NationalWorld/Kim Mogg.

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The symptoms of menopause can be hard to spot - especially if you don't know what to look for. (Picture: Adobe Stock)

The UK has approved a drug to treat menopausal hot flashes

A respiratory illness is causing Chinese hospitals to be "overwhelmed". (Picture: Adobe Stock)

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Chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance at a press conference in London's Downing Street. (Picture: Adrian Dennis/PA Wire)

Boris Johnson "bamboozled" by Covid data, says ex-adviser

The drug was already approved for diabetes treatment. (Picture: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)

New diabetes drug green-lit in UK as fat-burning "arms race" continues

Cigarettes will be a thing of the past - in about 80 years.

Those who want NOS and cigarettes badly enough will still find a way David George

Pinford End House in Bury St Edmunds has been rated as "inadequate" by the CQC. (Picture: Google Street View)

Residents at "unsafe" care home given wrong medication by staff

Everyone has been touched by breast cancer or knows somebody who has - and lots of people fundraise for more research. Here are Linslade Lower School Staff dressing up for Breast Cancer Awareness Week in 2007

New breast cancer drug on the NHS is massive boost to women everywhere Nancy Fielder

Catching breast cancer early is a key factor in successful treatment. (Picture: Rui Vieira/PA)

NHS to give "remarkable" new drug that cuts breast cancer risk in half

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Global ADHD medication shortage causes frustration among patients

A monkey survives for two years with a pig's kidney in an 'extraordinary milestone' (GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP via Getty Images)

A monkey survives for two years with a pig's kidney

Relatives and friends mourn a young Palestinian man on October 16, 2023 in Gaza City, Gaza.

Israeli siege strains hospitals and water supplies

Fake TikTok doctor Dalya Karezi, who gave medical advice to her 243,000 followers despite being unqualified to do so has been fined $13,000. Photo by TikTok.

Fake TikTok doctor who gave advice to 243,000 followers fined $13,000

Bluebells at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, West London (Photo: Jeff Moore/PA Wire)

Nearly half of the world's flowering plants facing extinction

A nurse tends to recovering patients on a general ward at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital on March 16, 2010 in Birmingham, England. (Stock Photo) Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Women more likely to die from heart attacks due to medical ‘sexism’

Two scientists credited with making major breakthroughs in the development of mRNA vaccine to fight Covid-19 have won the 2023 Nobel Prize for medicine. (Credit: Getty Images)

Covid-19 vaccine scientists win Nobel prize for medicine

Millions of people have been wrongly labelled with a penicillin allergy. Picture: George Frey/Getty

Millions wrongly labelled with a penicillin allergy

Natasha, Nick and Harry Hewitt. (Picture: SWNS)

Mum who was told she had migraine died from blood clots, inquest hears

Around 165 tonnes of medicine is wasted in Northern Ireland annually

Around 165 tonnes of medicine wasted in Northern Ireland annually