I was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer aged 34 despite being in best shape of my life - don't ignore the embarrassing symptom I did
Jelena Tompkins of Colorado was just 34 years old in 2016 when she noticed her gas smelled more foul than usual. She was diagnosed with stage three rectal cancer. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Adderall could become the next opioid epidemic, DEA warns
A Drug Enforcement Administration chief compared the influx of new prescriptions and high risk of abuse to that of opioids in the early to mid-2000s. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
We'll give you a sick note because we're too scared to say no! GPs admit they dole out letters to patients they haven't even SEEN over fears they'll get negative reviews online
GPs are routinely writing sick notes for patients they have not seen. Doctors admit '95 per cent' of requests are waved through without assessing the patient first and are 'rarely ever' denied. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Get a sick note for £25 - by just filling out a FORM: Anger over online firms offering same-day letters 'with NO appointments necessary'
The letters, allowing customers to be signed off work by UK-regulated medics, were promised with 'no appointments necessary'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The 'Oopzempic' baby boom: Rise in unplanned pregnancies in women taking slimming jabs sparks warnings from top fertility experts
Dubbed 'Oopzempic babies', the phenomenon has even led some US physicians to prescribe the jabs off-label to treat polycystic ovary syndrome. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ozempic baby boom: Doctors are prescribing weight-loss drugs off-label for fertility - with women in their 40s falling pregnant naturally
Doctors have begun doling out Ozempic to women struggling to get pregnant, creating a baby boom. Doctors do not have conclusive evidence yet that it is a viable treatment for infertility. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Experts reveal the one workout class proven to make you sleep better - and it doesn't involve ANY cardio
Lifting weights could cause your body to release more hormones that make you sleep longer, deeper and better, than doing cardio, physiologists say. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
H5N1 strain of bird flu is found in MILK for first time in 'very high concentrations,' World Health Organization warns
Bird flu has been detected in 'very high concentrations' in raw milk, the World Health Organization announced Friday. However, the pasteurized milk supply remains safe. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
I'm a neurologist - this is what it REALLY means when you have a sex dream about your boss, a friend's partner or someone who you don't find attractive
About eight in 10 people at some point dream about having sex with people who they don't even find attractive - often friends and colleagues. It can cause guilt or confusion. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: The truth about what saunas do to your body... and why it might just save your life
Are you on Instagram ? If so you may have noticed that having a sauna, or at least filming yourself having one, seems to be the next big thing. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Don't call them 'sanitary' products! World-renowned gynaecologist says term implies menstruation is 'dirty'
Dr Jen Gunter said that while most personal items - such as toothpaste and toilet roll - are labelled based on their function, society continues to use 'euphemistic language' for period products. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Doctors thought I had acid reflux - now I've got six months to live: Agony of mother, 34, diagnosed with bowel cancer who fears her three-year-old daughter 'will forget me'
Sophie Louise Wright, 34, from Torquay, Devon put her debilitating symptoms down to polyps. Now, she been given six months to live after being diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Could you be allergic to your own... orgasm? Study finds there's seven different types of 'post-coital flu' symptoms that strike men
French researchers studying the extremely rare post-orgasmic illness syndrome (POIS) claim it can manifest itself as seven different types of symptoms. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
From a 'matchbox' of cheese to a strict limit of just one slice of toast a day, we reveal the shockingly small portion sizes recommended by UK diet chiefs. So how do YOUR meals measure up?
Serving suggestions say we should be cooking just 75g of pasta, which is two to three tablespoons. It's the same for rice, with just two to three tablespoons being a recommended portion which is about 50g. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Longest ever case of Covid lasted 613 DAYS and turned into ultra-mutated variant: Immunocompromised Dutch 72-year-old battled lasting illness that eventually killed him
The patient was admitted to Amsterdam University Medical Centre in February 2022 with the omicron variant of Covid. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
