Tag Archives: Mail
Revealed: The whiplash capital of Britain (and the towns that run it a shamefully close second!) – Daily Mail
Liverpool is the whiplash capital of Britain with one in every 50 residents making compensation claims. Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions show huge regional variations in case rates – clear evidence of fraud in the eyes of … Continue reading
Blind Native American, 69, claims doctor carved ‘KKK’ into his stomach during open heart surgery – and left him ‘branded and scarred for life’ – Daily Mail
A blind Native American, 69, is accusing staff at a local hospital of negligence and racism after he emerged from open heart surgery with scars all over his body which appeared to spell out KKK. Vernon Traversie, from Cheyenne River … Continue reading
Breakthrough in bid to grow blood vessels in the lab which could revolutionise heart attack and stroke treatment – Daily Mail
About 12 per cent of the UK population are diagnosed with heart or circulatory disorders and the number of coronary bypass operations per year is more than 28,000. Bypass surgery circumvents blocked arteries in the heart and body, often using … Continue reading
Losing weight with a little Help: How Octavia Spencer had ‘secret gastric bypass surgery’ – Daily Mail
As a Hollywood star who is not a sample size, Octavia Spencer has had to become used to fielding questions about body image. But though her fame may be new, her battle with her weight is not. A new report … Continue reading
Bates: Health care reforms seek cure for bureaucracy – Medford Mail Tribune
A 55-year-old Medford man with schizophrenia and other mental problems was rushed to the emergency room with a bowel obstruction two months ago. After the latest hospital visit, a change in medications appeared to have cleared up the problem … … Continue reading
Is a rise in rickets being mistaken for child abuse? Parents being wrongly accused because of vitamin D deficiency – Daily Mail
Parents are being wrongly accused of abuse because of an undiagnosed epidemic of rickets among very young children, scientists claim. Cases of the illness, which is caused by a lack of vitamin D, have soared in the past decade due … Continue reading
Why women don’t have the stomach for alcohol – Daily Mail
The gastric enzyme, called alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), can help to protect men from serious alcohol-related diseases such as liver cirrhosis and dementia. ADH, which breaks down alcohol so that it can be absorbed into the bloodstream, is the first line … Continue reading
Girl, 12, with rare vomiting illness is sick up to 40 times a day – Daily Mail
Anyone who has caught the norovirus will know just how awful frequent bouts of nausea and vomiting can be. Spare a thought then for a 12-year-old girl who has experienced the same symptoms for SIX YEARS. Alisha Atkinson suffers from … Continue reading
A referee’s return to the heartland of hockey – Globe and Mail
Ritter, an actor best known for TV roles on Three’s Company and 8 Simple Rules … for Dating my Teenage Daughter, died unexpectedly of a heart affliction called aortic dissection in 2003. A wrongful-death lawsuit was filed against his doctors … Continue reading
Has This Morning gone too far? Naked model has intimate check for testicular cancer on live TV – Daily Mail
White and taller men, those with a family history of testicular cancer and men with an undescended testicle appear to be more at risk. The most common symptom of testicular cancer is a lump in a testicle, this can occasionally … Continue reading
