For the people it affects (and anyone who shares a bed with them) restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a torturous condition.Known medically as Willis-Ekbom disease, RLS is described by the…
It's one of the greatest dilemmas patients taking revolutionary weight-loss drugs face: Will they ever be able to stop taking the injections?The weekly jabs – which include Ozempic, Wegovy and…
At the start of the year Julie Hiener developed a dramatic stutter. She struggles to get the words out as she tells me: 'I just woke up one day and…
Ozempic: only a few short years ago, it was a niche medical term, unfamiliar to most outside the healthcare world. Today, it's the buzzword on everyone's lips, dominating conversations at…
You might well think that it sounds too good to be true – a pill that means you can enjoy alcohol without suffering any harmful side-effects.But scientists are one step…
Any occasion when a medication that’s meant to improve someone’s life cuts it short has to be viewed as an absolute tragedy.But the sad death of nurse Susan McGowan after…
Chicken, peas and mashed potato might seem like a fairly ordinary meal to most people, but, for Bradley Phelps, that dinner after an operation he had at a private hospital…
By Meike Leonard Published: 21:09 EDT, 12 October 2024 | Updated: 21:21 EDT, 12 October 2024 A common diabetes drug could cut the debilitating side-effects of prostate cancer medicines, pioneering…
I’ve been diagnosed with an enlarged prostate. But I’ve stopped taking the drugs prescribed by my GP as the side-effects were intolerable. Are there any effective herbal remedies or should…
Struggling to cope with chronic pain and waking up to six times a night, Annie Icke wondered if there was a better treatment for her symptoms than the steroids she’d…
