New Bluetooth sensor can detect heart failure days before it happens

New Bluetooth sensor ‘can detect heart failure 10 days before it happens even when patients show no symptoms’ Device worn on chest tracks heart rate and rhythm, sleep quality and step count It pings this data to app which using artificial intelligence to get normal baseline Can then detect when heart’s function starts to deteriorate … Read more

‘Chaotic’ cruise ship quarantine was ‘a major failure’, expert says

A Japanese disease expert has branded the Diamond Princess quarantine a ‘major failure’, ‘completely inadequate’ and a ‘mistake’ as he slammed the ‘bureaucrats’ in charge.  Kentaro Iwata said the situation on board the vessel was worse than previous outbreaks he had dealt with in the past, such as Ebola in Africa and the 2003 SARS … Read more

‘How a sunset saved my life’ – Broke, lonely and feeling a failure, Catherine Gray hit rock bottom

Broke, lonely and overwhelmed by a crushing feeling of failure, Catherine Gray hit rock bottom emotionally. But, as she reveals here, it took a surprisingly simple rethink to bring her back from the brink. An edited extract from The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary by Catherine Gray When I was 33 I was suicidal. I … Read more

Man develops kidney failure after taking 12 TIMES the recommended amount of vitamin D

A man developed kidney failure after taking 12 times the recommended amount of vitamin D every day.  The unnamed 54-year-old, from Canada, had been taking the bumper dose drops for two-and-a-half-years after being advised it by a naturopath.  But his health took a turn for the worse when he took a two week holiday and … Read more