Millions of people may be at risks of strokes and heart attacks because they’re being prescribed a drug that doesn’t work. Doctors have raised serious concerns about the efficacy of AstraZeneca’s Brilinta, which is given to people with a history of heart attack or blood vessel conditions that put them at risk of deadly clots,
A nurse has claimed she nearly died after suffering a deadly blood clot which was ’caused by her contraceptive pill’. Chloe Mangan, initially thought her aching muscles and chest pain were being caused by her gruelling 12-hour shifts as a nurse. The 25-year-old started taking the combined pill in August to try and combat her
When it comes to health conditions, your body often takes sides. In fact, there are many illnesses that predominantly affect one side of the body – and that’s not simply because we favour one side, though tennis elbow, for instance, is more common on the right side because more people are right-handed. ‘At first glance,
The grieving parents of a young actress who died after being misdiagnosed by a physician’s associate are joining an unprecedented legal action by senior doctors against the General Medical Council. They say they feel ‘hoodwinked’ by the regulator’s chief executive who, they claim, has reneged on a promise to make sure such tragedies do not