Regularly drinking more than four cups of coffee per day may raise your risk of deadly heart disease, a study suggests. Researchers found more than 400 milligrams of caffeine per day was linked to people’s heart rate and blood pressure slowly increasing over time. The team thinks the effect of caffeine on increased heart rate and
Deaths from drug overdoses and poisoning reached a plateau last year in Los Angeles County — the first time in a decade that such fatalities had not continued a year-over-year rise, public health officials said. Across L.A. County, 3,092 lives were lost to drug overdoses or poisoning in 2023, a slight decline from 3,220 deaths
A lifelong lover of liverwurst, Sue Fleming used to relish the smoked sausage her husband brought home every few weeks from the grocery store deli. He always made sure to buy her favorite, Boar’s Head braunschweiger, even though it was more expensive than other brands. ‘My whole family loves braunschweiger,’ she told reporters. ‘[It’s best]
Pakistan has registered its first cases of mpox, health officials confirmed today. A mutant form of the rash-causing virus is currently spreading rampantly in Africa, killing an estimated 10 per cent of those infected. It is a descendent of the deadly clade 1 strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, and different than the mild version which
A new deadly strain of mpox will likely reach the UK and could soon lead to British deaths, infectious disease experts have warned. Other experts told MailOnline this more aggressive version of the virus may have already begun to spread silently beyond Africa, potentially reaching Europe. Yesterday the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an ongoing mpox
A new deadly strain of mpox has officially reached Europe and could soon reach the UK, leading infectious disease experts have warned. The clade 1b mutation, which experts have called ‘ the most dangerous one so far’, is believed to be behind a wave of miscarriages, and kills one in ten of those infected. Sweden
Health officials have ordered doctors to look out for cases of mpox as a deadly strain was confirmed to have reached Europe. The World Health Organisation declared a global health emergency – its highest alert – after an outbreak in Africa. The first case outside the continent was detected in Sweden, prompting the European Centre