US claims researchers at Chinese institute fell ill weeks before the world knew of Covid 

The Chinese government is under growing pressure to reveal the true origins of the coronavirus pandemic after US intelligence placed a Wuhan lab at the centre of the mystery.  American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with Covid-like symptoms in autumn 2019 – weeks before the … Read more

Mentally ill woman, 29, has been locked in a cage by her relatives in the Philippines for FIVE YEARS

Mentally ill woman, 29, has been locked in a cage by her relatives in the Philippines for FIVE YEARS after her family said they could not cope with looking after her Bebe, 29, was diagnosed with psychotic depression in 2014 in the Philippines She suffered hallucinations and was admitted to hospital in Negros Occidental After … Read more

Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty, 61, is seriously ill with Covid and pneumonia in hospital

Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty, 61, is seriously ill with Covid and pneumonia in hospital – as son asks fans to ‘keep my father in prayer’ Paddy Doherty is in hospital with pneumonia and coronavirus, his family say Doctors have placed 61-year-old on oxygen to help him fight the infection  His son Simey … Read more

Siegfried Fischbacher ‘is terminally ill with pancreatic cancer’ months after Roy died from COVID-19

Siegfried Fischbacher, 81, ‘is terminally ill with pancreatic cancer’ and is at home following ‘a 12-hour operation’ to remove tumor… nine months after Roy died from COVID-19 By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 19:59 GMT, 11 January 2021 | Updated: 19:59 GMT, 11 January 2021 Siegfriend Fischbacher, 81, is ‘terminally ill with pancreatic cancer,’ according … Read more

Stem cells from babies’ umbilical cords could be used to treat severely ill Covid-19 patients

Stem cells found in the umbilical cords of newborn babies could provide a life saving treatment for people with a severe case of coronavirus, according to scientists. A study by the University of Miami found that using stem cells on patients under the age of 85 doubled their chances of surviving Covid-19 and worked in … Read more

Mother, 45, ill with coronavirus makes miraculous recovery with help from arthritis drug ‘anakinra’

A mother who was in a coma and given three days to live after contracting coronavirus has made a miraculous recovery with help from an experimental drug. The family of Claire Haythorne, 45, from Hillsborough, Sheffield, said they had been through the ‘hardest two months’ of their lives. She contracted the virus at the start … Read more

Judge rules heart attack victim who is critically ill in hospital should be allowed to die

A judge has ruled that a heart attack victim who is critically ill should be allowed to die following a legal battle between his wife and his mother.   The patient, a middle-aged man identified only as ‘RS’ due to an anonymity order, suffered a cardiac arrest in November last year, during which his heart stopped … Read more

Mother of boy mown down by schizophrenic asks when will mentally ill killers be taken off streets

Jo Wood has watched CCTV footage that no mother should ever have to see.  The images, captured by a camera near the entrance of Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, show the final minutes of her 12-year-old son Harley’s life as he left school with a group of friends one December afternoon in 2019. … Read more

Critically ill patients are transferred to hospitals hundreds of miles away

Critically ill patients are transferred to hospitals hundreds of miles away because local intensive care units are full – as Britain suffers its highest daily death toll since April Britain recorded 981 coronavirus deaths yesterday, highest daily toll since April Hospitals in London asked NHS colleagues in Yorkshire to take unwell patients Officials have asked … Read more

The intriguing reason you feel ill after a single glass 

I’ll admit it: I have a drinking problem. But mainly only with white wine, not red. And always with bubbles. No, it’s not an addiction – far from it. I’ll illustrate this with an instantly regrettable decision I made on Christmas morning: I had half a glass of champagne, and by lunchtime, the familiar burn … Read more