Judging by the volume of antidepressants prescribed by its GPs, Sunderland must be the most depressing place in England. In May this year, doctors in the NHS Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group … [+11016 chars]
Summary: Those with decreased activity in the hippocampus following a traumatic event are more likely to experience worse PTSD symptoms. Source: SfN After a traumatic event, people with decreased a… [+2744 chars]
America's obesity crisis only got worse during the COVID-19 pandemic, with rates of the condition among the youngest in the population starkly increasing, a new study finds. Researchers at the Pedia… [+4992 chars]
Scientists believe they have identified why heart damage is so common among patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in a preliminary study. The new research has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus spi… [+2581 chars]
A woman who was told she had hives due to stress at work was shocked to be diagnosed with cancer that resulted in having her left leg amputated. Mitera Balkaran, 32, was working as a mechanical eng… [+3518 chars]
Eating a banana a day may help keep cancer away but only if its green, a study suggests. Scientists gave people with a high hereditary risk of cancer a diet high in resistant starch, which is abund… [+5334 chars]
Excess drinking during the COVID-19 pandemic could end up leading to thousands of extra deaths and hospital admissions over the next 20 years, health experts have warned. Research from NHS England a… [+3312 chars]
A woman who suffered a suspected heart attack was diagnosed with cancer after a doctor ordered extra scans. The Reverend Rosie Bouch visited hospital last December after chest pains, and was cleared… [+1715 chars]
A man in Spain who was bitten by a tick has been hospitalised and diagnosed with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a disease that can kill up to 40 per cent of people who contract it. The pat… [+2478 chars]
IT might not be something you think much about, especially as the average person does it up to 20 times a day, but passing wind could reveal a multitude of things about your health. So much of our h… [+6255 chars]
We published an article earlier this month that contained incorrect estimates for the basic reproduction number (R0) for COVID subvariants BA.4/BA.5 and BA.2. We have now corrected the error, but I w… [+1501 chars]
A WAVE of colds and tummy bugs after Covid rules were lifted caused a surge in rare hepatitis in children, scientists say. At least 12 kids under the age of 10 have needed liver transplants and 263 … [+2152 chars]
