9 h. ago Stroke centres in England given AI tool that will help 50% of patients recover

NHS equips all centres with life-saving software that will increase number of patients avoiding serious disabilityHalf of all people who experience a stroke in England will now recover thanks to a revolutionary AI scanning system that increases the number of patients avoiding serious disability.The NHS has equipped every stroke centre in England with life-saving software that quickly tells doctors if they need to perform emergency surgery and can triple the rate of recovery. Continue reading...

Science

10 h. ago So many women face breast pain. Now doctors reveal in our expert guide when to worry about lumps, infections, tenderness and cancer

Around 120,000 women every year are referred to specialist NHS clinics for further investigations as a result of breast pain.

Science

11 h. ago My partner and I share ONE Mounjaro prescription to cut costs... we take turns to use the jab and have lost 3 stone. I've never felt better despite doctors' dire warning

Couples all have their domestic routines and share of the chores. Who walks the dog, who puts the bin out? But my partner and I have one that's a little unusual...

Events

11 h. ago Neuroscientist reveals the surprisingly simple way she communicates with her dead husband every day

Dr Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and former medical doctor, says she communicates with her dead husband every day using a simple method.

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11 h. ago Vaping may be causing irreversible harm to children’s health, doctors say

Experts ‘extremely concerned’ about e-cigarette use and say millions of young people could face ill health in futureDoctors have raised the alarm about high levels of vaping among children worldwide, saying they are convinced e-cigarettes are causing irreversible harm to their health.Cardiologists, researchers and health experts said they were “extremely concerned” about the harmful effects of e-cigarettes on millions of teenagers and young people, including exposure to toxins and carcinogens – some of which are still unknown. Continue reading...

Society

11 h. ago Girl, 6, ‘sent home to die’ from London A&E after doctors dismiss sickle cell complication as stomach flu

Shen’iyah Green, from Enfield, died on the journey home from hospital, after being being wrongly diagnosed with stomach flu

Society

14 h. ago Former Doctor Who boss says show has ‘hedged its bets’ with Billie Piper regeneration

The actor made a surprise return to the show at the end of the latest season

Economics

14 h. ago Trump’s bill a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids whose treatment is tied up in Medicaid red tape

‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is projected to cut nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid spending over the next decade. Parents with sick kids and doctors tell Rhian Lubin the cuts are ‘final nail in the coffin’

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14 h. ago Doctor JUMPS from shaking house in Afghanistan earthquake and fears his kids would be dead

Doctor Azam, 52, who lives in the Kunar province, was at home when the 6.0 magnitude Afghanistan earthquake hit late Sunday, killing some 800 people and injuring more than 2,500

Society

15 h. ago Doctor reveals 'sudden and almost obsessive craving for a certain type of food' people often experience three months before cancer diagnosis

Research has also suggested food cravings may be associated with certain cancers including breast, ovarian and endometrial.

Science

17 h. ago Can't afford Mounjaro? How to come off it without gaining weight — the expert's guide

Coming off GLP-1 drugs doesn’t have to mean inevitable weight gain. Giulia Crouch asks doctors what you can do to keep it off for good — while also boosting your wellbeing

Politics

23 h. ago ‘You’re the only port of call for 400 hospital patients, which is absurd’: Matthew Hutchinson on the perils of life as an NHS doctor

He’s a rheumatologist, a standup comedian – and now the author of a memoir. He talks about racism in healthcare, why Covid was the only time urgent care was properly staffed – and his beef with cardiologistsAre You Really the Doctor?, Matthew Hutchinson’s memoir of being a black doctor in the NHS, opens in A&E with a patient suffering from a thunderclap headache and taking time out from his excruciating pain to complain that Hutchinson is “very scruffy”. “I’m wearing scrubs, the pyjama-like, hospital-issue uniform – something pretty difficult to put your own personal flair on,” Hutchinson writes, concluding wearily that the guy must have been reacting to something else: “Skin, hair, or general vibe.” You couldn’t call it a microaggression, the patient’s assumption that, being black, Hutchinson was unlikely to be an expert. But this anecdote barely registers on the Geiger counter of bigotry in healthcare that Hutchinson writes about trenchantly and acerbically, from the prejudice...

Science

24 h. ago Was 'Ozempic rage' a factor in grandmother allegedly stabbing boy, 10, in the neck? Doctor details 'toxic effect'

A court heard a forensic psychiatrist who assessed Julie Ann Williams had determined her mental health problems could have made her 'more vulnerable to the side effects' of Ozempic.

Events

30 h. ago Doctors discover bullet fragment from the neck of boy who went viral for saying friend protected him during Minnesota church shooting

Weston Halsne will need surgery to remove the fragment from his neck, which narrowly missed a vital artery

Events

33 h. ago Hollywood doctor charging £150,000 a pop to enlarge celebrity manhoods

Jason Emer says he has been flooded with requests to pimp stars’ packages since he posted the results of a recent procedure on Only Fans performer Beau Butler

Economics

34 h. ago The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

Venice film festival The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figureGiuliano da Empoli’s smash-hit satirical novel The Wizard of the Kremlin, about a Putin spin doctor called Vadim Baranov and based on shadowy Russian politician Vladislav Surkov, has now been converted into an exasperatingly laborious and literal-minded movie, burdened with endless dull voiceover. It has been written for the screen by its estimable director Olivier Assayas, working with the formidable author and reportage journalist Emmanuel Carrère; Carrère in fact has a cameo here, playing a supercilious French figure at a raucous Moscow student party in the early 90s, patronisingly informing the young people present that it was the communism they’ve just rejected that really believed in the arts.The action takes us through the 1990s decline of ailing president Boris Yeltsin and the promotion of FSB chief Vlad...

Politics

35 h. ago Doctors find drug that is better than aspirin at preventing heart attacks

Discovery that clopidogrel is a more effective blood thinner could transform health guidelines worldwideDoctors have found a drug that is better than aspirin at preventing heart attacks and strokes, in a discovery that could transform health guidelines worldwide.For decades, millions of people have been advised to take aspirin to reduce their risk of experiencing a serious cardiovascular event. A daily low-dose aspirin makes blood less sticky and helps prevent heart attacks and strokes. Continue reading...

Events

39 h. ago Young girl died after brain tumour dismissed by doctor as 'lazy eye'

Octavia Cook, who was born premature at 29 weeks, was just three-years-old when her mum noticed her eyes were beginning to drift.

Events

43 h. ago ITV's Dr Amir Khan supported as he declares 'I'm not ashamed'

The NHS doctor and ITV star has been praised for 'keeping it real'

Politics

43 h. ago 'NHS doctors sent me home with antibiotics, now I can only use one of my arms'

Michael Gwyther is still searching for answers about his damaged arm months after a harrowing experience which started after he rushed to A&E at Morriston Hospital in Swansea, Wales

Society