Estate agent, 22, claims she nearly died from six blood clots after a nurse blamed her leg pain on her being a 'lazy student who laid in bed too long'
Maela Penney (pictured), from Cornwall, made an urgent appointment with her GP surgery in October 2019. But the 22-year-old was sent home with painkillers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

I'm proof MEN can get breast cancer: Father-of-two, 59, tells of his four-year battle with predominantly 'female' disease - and urges other men to beware that they could be struck down too
David McCallion, 59, who lives in Oldham was diagnosed with breast cancer after noticing he had an inverted nipple. He recalls friends of 30 years would cross the road to avoid talking about cancer. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Patients' anguish as FDA delays decision to approve Eli Lilly's 'life-changing' Alzheimer's drug - due to concerns about deadly side effects and how medicine was tested
An unexpected move by the FDA to delay approval of a potentially life-changing Alzheimer's drug has let down doctors and patients eagerly awaiting its availability. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Interactive, county-by-county US map reveals where hearing loss is most common in US... with VERY surprising results
Researchers at the University of Chicago used a model to estimate that as many as one in five people in remote areas had the condition in 2019, compared to one in ten in built-up cities. Nationwide, the rate was estimated to be 11.6 percent. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How influential trans health doctors and activists have secretly shaped NHS policies for more than a decade
Documents produced by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, have been used as a basis for guidance to medical practitioners, across the NHS. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Cancer-stricken man, 41, given nine months to live astonishes doctors as world-first treatment rids him of brain tumour
Ben Trotman, 41, from West Sussex, signed up for a world-first treatment trial after his shock glioblastoma diagnosis in October 2022. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

England's STI hotspots exposed: How rates of gonorrhoea and chlamydia have soared by up to 500% in parts of Devon, Yorkshire and Tyne and Wear... so how bad is the situation in YOUR area?
STIs are on the rise across England but some areas are faring far worse when it comes to rates of gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis as our fascinating interactive map demonstrates. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Alarm over 'horribly Big Brother-ish' plan for NHS app to start tracking your steps to boost nation's health
The move, part of a wider scheme to completely revamp the app, would help ensure 'we as a nation feel healthier', health secretary Victoria Atkins claimed. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

England's STI hotspots exposed: As startling data warns of surging rates across Europe, fascinating interactive map lays bare rates of gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis in YOUR area
STIs are on the rise across England but some areas are faring far worse when it comes to rates of gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis as our fascinating interactive map demonstrates. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: What to eat if you want to live to 100
In a few weeks I will be 67 years old, more than two-thirds of my way to my goal of reaching 100, and, hopefully, getting a birthday card from the monarch. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Major change to NHS dentist appointments as charges will rise by 4% within weeks (if you can get one, that is!)
Basic check-ups, fillings and crowns will cost you more from April 1 as part of price hike to NHS dentistry prices, unions have described the move as a slap in the face' for families 'paying more for less'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Outrage over 'creepy' plans for AI to listen in to YOUR NHS appointments and automatically generate notes
Campaigners fear having AI listening in and recording conversations between patients and medics will make people too afraid to share embarrassing, but critical, medical information. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Ex-M&S boss who took High Street chain 'out of the doldrums' is hired as NHS productivity tsar to give ailing health service an 'M&S moment'
Health secretary Victoria Atkins' department has hired Steve Rowe to ensure the NHS Productivity Plan, out later this year, 'improves care throughout England'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Sargento recalls 22 types of cheese amid nationwide listeria outbreak that has hospitalized nearly two dozen people in 11 states
Cheese manufacturer Sargento is recalling some of its shredded and grated cheeses due to listeria contamination. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Proof obesity runs in families? Adults are SIX TIMES more likely to be fat in middle-age if their parents were
Mari Mikkelsen, of the University of Tromsø, Norway says there is evidence children of obese parents are likely to follow the same path and grow up overweight themselves. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news