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Grayson Heinle, from Jensen Beach, Florida, was born happy and healthy, and was hitting all his developmental milestones on time for the first several years of his life. But things suddenly took a turn for the worse when, earlier this year, he fell over on the couch and went to sleep, and his mother couldn’t … Read more
A 12-year-old girl’s life has been saved by a heart transplant after she almost died from a rare disease. Kayleigh Llewellyn, from Seaham, County Durham, fell ill around three months ago when she woke up one morning for school struggling to breathe. Doctors diagnosed her with cardiomyopathy and, to the shock of Kayleigh’s parents, warned a … Read more
Being overweight could HELP cancer patients beat the disease because ‘fat people respond better to a powerful immunotherapy drug’ Scientists discovered fat cancer patients responded better to atezolizumab The immunotherapy drug is given to patients with non-small-cell lung cancer But the benefits were not seen for fat patients given chemo drug docetaxel By Stephen Matthews … Read more
Even so-called ‘white coat hypertension’ – blood pressure measures that are only high in doctors’ offices – indicate that patients are at-risk for heart disease, heart attacks and even death, a new study suggests. Some one-in-five Americans are estimated to have white coat hypertension. But the condition is often left untreated, as doctors doubt that … Read more
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is now pouring funds into a start-up wants to gene-edit heart disease out of existence using a one-time injection. Verve Therapeutics hopes to leverage its CEO’s discovery of a gene he believes is linked to lower heart disease risks to ‘fix’ the DNA of people at high risk of heart disease. … Read more
When Jaci Hermstad could barely lift her leg to get on her horse Bud in November last year, she knew that something was very wrong. She tried not to over-react, but in the back of her mind memories of when her identical twin sister Alex battled a rare childhood version of the neurological disease ALS … Read more
Men who take medication to reduce their symptoms of prostate disease may be more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, research suggests. Patients with enlarged prostates who are prescribed drugs called 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors are around a third more at risk of the condition. They reduce the production of androgens, a hormone which help to boost urinary flow, … Read more
A professional model and dancer has today told how it took doctors seven years to diagnose her with Crohn’s disease. Natalie-Amber Freegard, of Swindon, began suffering symptoms of the agonising digestive condition when she was 17. Doctors repeatedly dismissed her stomach pains and extreme weight loss, which saw her plummet to just five stone, as … Read more
Zapping the brain for just 25 minutes boosts memory as scientists say weak electrical currents could also be used to treat Alzheimer’s It takes only a weak electrical current to restore thinking powers, experts say The tiny pulses of electricity are thought to synchronise their brainwaves Older people zapped performed as well as those in … Read more
A woman who fell through a trap door has ended up with a rare pain condition nicknamed ‘suicide disease’ because it makes patients wish they were dead. Annabelle Woods, 35, developed trigeminal neuralgia – a nerve pain condition affecting the face and head – after falling at work. She now gets a stabbing pain ‘like … Read more