Category: Health & Medicine

Why do I always feel such nausea when I wake up? A few months ago I started to wake up feeling sick, and this lasted about an hour before passing. More recently, I’ve been suffering the same nausea intermittently during Read more …

It has been a little over a week since scientists in Botswana and South Africa alerted the world about the emergence of a rapidly spreading new Covid variant – casting a shadow over the forthcoming festive season. Despite gloom from Read more …

Thousands of young women who experience heavy periods are unknowingly suffering from a genetic disorder that puts them at high risk of life-threatening complications during childbirth. Conditions that affect the blood’s ability to clot affect roughly 43,000 women in the Read more …

Few scientific breakthroughs have proven to be as momentous – or as controversial – as the fertility treatment that has paved the way for three-parent babies.  The extraordinary technique used to create these children, described as the biggest advance in Read more …

Multiple sclerosis patients forced to quit vital medication due to the intolerable stomach trouble it causes are to be offered a new breed of pills designed to reduce severe reactions. The medication, taken twice a day, works just as well Read more …

Fish-shaped ‘microrobots’ could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly into tumours, sparing cancer patients from some of the worst side effects of the treatment.  The microscopic robots, which are one-hundredth of a millimetre in size, have been made my Read more …

No10’s scientists have called for the introduction of vaccine passports and work-from-home guidance to counter the spread of the super-mutant Omicron Covid variant, advice published today shows. Documents released by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and subgroup Nervtag warned Read more …

Marijuana use among pregnant women who are infected with HIV has increased over the last decade, a new study suggests. Researchers surveyed women with he condition, who were either expecting babies or had recently given birth, about their substance use. Read more …

Pregnant women, or women who soon plan to get pregnant, are not confident that the Covid vaccine is safe for them, despite what experts say, a new survey finds. The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Vaccine Monitor for November, published on Read more …

My stomach lurched when I first heard about Omicron, a new, highly mutated variant of Covid-19 that led, this week, to the reintroduction of masks and a fear of more restrictions to come. So how worried should we be? Well, Read more …