Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective against hospitalization from...
Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine remains effective at preventing hospitalizations for at least six months, a new study suggests..Researchers at Kaiser Permanente Southern California (KPSC)...
More than a third of electroconvulsive therapy patients received the treatment...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), where an electric shock of 70 to 450 volts is administered through a patient’s brain under general anaesthetic, has a long...
Patients who develop depression as part of long Covid respond better...
Coronavirus survivors who develop depression respond much better to drugs than most people, a study has found.Surveys suggest as many as 40 per cent...
Why can’t I sleep without needing to urinate? DR MARTIN SCURR...
Last June, I started to urinate constantly. I was getting up seven times a night, and during the day it was almost as bad....
£100 hearing kit sold to cyclists could spare thousands of children...
Thousands of children who suffer 'glue ear' could be spared surgery with the help of a wireless kit used by cyclists, scientists say.The condition,...
‘I was told “invisible” heart attack was just indigestion’: Woman, 53,...
Dropping to the bathroom floor with crushing pains in her chest, Irene Birtwhistle was convinced she was having a heart attack.‘I was in agony,’...
GPs should be told to ‘think twice’ before dishing out powerful...
Telling GPs to 'think twice' about prescribing opioids may prevent tens of thousands of patients from getting hooked on them, research suggests.Experts have for...
Nearly 12,000 women could be living with undiagnosed breast cancer after...
A million and a half women have missed out on breast cancer screening as a result of the pandemic.Around 12,000 of them are now...
My doctor said I was infertile – I’m so joyful I...
Ever since I was young, I knew I wanted to have children — a large brood of little ones, with all the squabbles and...
Seeing the same GP over several years helps patients live longer...
Seeing the same GP over several years is vital to help patients live longer and stay out of hospital, a major study has found.Having...
