Health

Chris Craddock BBC Jersey communities reporter BBC A panel of experts talked about the issues facing women in Jersey A campaign group has called for more support and better care for endometriosis patients in Jersey. Endometriosis Jersey hosted a special screening of the documentary ‘Below the Belt’ at ArtHouse on Tuesday. Its organiser Kate Fry has the disease which affects …

Chef Heston Blumenthal looks back at how bipolar disorder has impacted his life. Source link

Getty Images Two breakthrough Alzheimer’s drugs have been deemed far too expensive, for too little benefit, to be offered on the NHS. The medicines are the first to slow the disease, which may give people extra time living independently. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) concluded they were a poor use of taxpayers’ money and said funding …

Alison Holt & James Melley BBC News BBC Carole Charles’s husband Winbourne’s death is one of 20 involving the same NHS hospital trust where coroners have raised serious concerns An NHS mental health trust, recently found guilty of serious failings in the care of a young patient who took her own life, has had serious concerns raised over the deaths …

Steve Jones & Rachel Russell BBC News, Yorkshire Facebook Yvonne Ford, 59, contracted rabies after being scratched by a dog while on holiday, her family said A British woman has died from rabies after she was “scratched” by a puppy in Morocco, her family said. Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, had light contact with the stray dog while …

A representational image of a tick carrying Congo virus. — APP/File Sindh has recorded this year’s first case of the Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Karachi. A patient, infected with the virus,  passed away after contracting the disease. The provincial health department said in a statement that a 42-year-old man, who was a resident of Karachi’s Malir, contracted the …

In recent extraordinary moves, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired and replaced a team that makes vaccine recommendations for the country. Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter at The New York Times, explains how this change could impact vaccine accessibility. Source link

This representational image shows a person experiencing allergy symptoms. — Pexels Runny nose, itching eyes, worsening asthma symptoms — the effects of hay fever are nothing to sneeze at, experts say, warning of an “explosion” of allergies as climate change lengthens and intensifies pollen seasons. The UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has found that a shifting climate has already begun …

Getty Images Unlicensed practitioners giving cosmetic injections are putting people’s lives at risk, officials say Cosmetic procedures such as fillers, Botox and Brazilian butt lifts are taking place in public toilets, hotel rooms and other “shocking locations” in Britain, officials have warned. People’s lives “are being put at risk every single day” by the lack of regulation in the industry, …

Divya Talwar & Tammi Walker BBC Tassie Weaver says she was treated like “a hysterical woman” by a midwife When Tassie Weaver went into labour at full term, she thought she was hours away from holding her first child. But, by the time she was giving birth, she knew her son had died. Doctors had previously told Tassie to call …