[ad_1] Getty ImagesThe UK Foreign Office advises travellers: "Take care if offered, particularly for free, or when buying spirit-based drinks. If labels, smell or taste seem wrong then do not drink."Travellers are being warned of the dangers of methanol poisoning after six tourists to Laos have died. Methanol is an industrial chemical found in antifreeze and windshield washer fluid. It's not meant for human consumption and is highly toxic.Drinking even
[ad_1] Getty ImagesAn ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report.The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 types of cell – such as heart muscle or nerve cells.Instead the Human Cell Atlas project has revealed there are thousands of cell types, with some appearing to be culprits in diseases such as inflammatory bowel
[ad_1] Getty ImagesPeople with laryngeal dystonia (LD), a condition that makes the voice sound strained and hoarse, might benefit from a drug already used to treat a sleep disorder, researchers say. Some volunteers who tried the narcolepsy treatment, sodium oxybate, found it eased their speech in a similar way to drinking alcohol, but without intoxication. LD, a neurological problem where the vocal cords spasm, has drawn more attention since US
[ad_1] BBC Cassandra Wardle is one of hundreds of women part of the group action against Johnson & JohnsonHundreds of women in the UK are planning to take on one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies over alleged links between talc and cancer.Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021, Cassandra Wardle is one of the women launching a group action against the biggest seller of talcum powder, Johnson & Johnson (J&J).Cassandra,
[ad_1] Family photoWidow Samantha Morris says she feels "pain and sadness" being a single parent to three childrenThe wife of a motorcyclist who could have been saved after a crash, had it not been for an ambulance delay, has spoken of her pain at being a widow aged 28.Aaron Morris, 31, died about six hours after colliding with a car on 1 July 2022 in Esh Winning, County Durham.His widow,
[ad_1] BBCDr Andrew Purbrick, who represents thousands of GPs in the south of England, says surgeries are facing a "funding crisis"GP practices could be pushed "over the edge" by a planned rise in the National Insurance (NI) rate for employers, a doctor has said.The government has said the NHS and the rest of the public sector would be shielded from the rise but that does not cover GP practices, many
[ad_1] Getty ImagesThe government has ordered a review of physician associates (PA) and anaesthesia associates (AA) in England after mounting concern about their use in the NHS.The number of PAs and AAs, who help doctors, are in the process of being rapidly expanded.But the British Medical Association has voiced concerns they are being asked to do tasks they are not meant to and the lines with doctors are getting blurred.Announcing
[ad_1] A senior coroner has warned that more babies could die unless "action is taken", following the deaths of three infants who had received contaminated feed while being cared for in hospital.Three-month-old Aviva Otte died in January 2014 after bacteria got into her food supply at St Thomas' Hospital, south London.In June that year, one-month-old Oscar Barker and nine-day-old Yousef Al-Kharboush died after a similar, but separate contamination incident.Following an
[ad_1] BBCAnna Cooper has had 17 operations and is in constant pain Waiting lists for gynaecology appointments across the UK have more than doubled since February 2020, BBC research reveals. Records show around three-quarters of a million (755,046) women's health appointments are waiting to happen - up from 360,400 just before the pandemic.This would suggest around 630,000 people - at the very least - are on the list to be
[ad_1] Getty ImagesA major surgery which between 10 and 15 patients have each year at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd will no longer take place at the hospitalSome major operations will no longer be going ahead in north Wales, a health board has announced.Betsi Cadwaladr health board said it was pausing its provision of planned and emergency open abdominal aortic aneurism (AAA) surgery to help improve its other care.The health board confirmed
