Health news

Follow @Health_UKnews

• Schamroth window: Simple finger test that 'can reveal cancer'

  26-11-2019 18:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People should see a diamond-shaped gap between their nailbeds when they hold their forefingers back-to-back, and people whose fingers fit flat against one another may have clubbed fingers.
  
  Read more

• At-home saliva test for prostate cancer better than blood test, study suggests

  09-04-2025 23:00
  Researchers say ‘relatively simple, inexpensive’ means of assessing genetic risk offers hope of better screeningAn at-home spit test appears to perform better at predicting prostate cancer risk than the current frontline test, a study suggests.The test assesses 130 genetic variants to provide a risk score for prostate cancer, which is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in men in the UK. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Disturbing brain condition linked to just one glass of wine per night

  09-04-2025 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Sao Paulo Medical School in Brazil looked at brain autopsies from 1,781 subjects and gathered information on their drinking patterns.
  
  Read more

• Scientists discover exact amount of weekly booze that could double your risk of dementia

  09-04-2025 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Brazilian researchers analysed the brains of 1781 people who had died, and asked their family for details about their drinking behaviour throughout their lifetime.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Got a parent with Alzheimer's? Study reveals whether mum or dad carries the biggest risk for you

  09-04-2025 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Canadian scientists say these children may be at higher risk of Alzheimer's because they are more prone to one toxic protein, tau, spreading in the brain.
  
  Read more

• RFK Jr says his response to measles outbreak should be ‘model for the world’

  09-04-2025 21:43
  
  Public health experts argue he failed to give a full-throated endorsement of an extremely effective vaccineThe health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, said on a press tour that his response to a large measles outbreak in west Texas should be a “model for the world”. The statement came after Kennedy attended the funeral of a third measles victim over the weekend.Kennedy’s response to the outbreak has been widely criticized by epidemiologists and public health experts, who argue h
  
  Read more

• FDA recalls common condiment after organism is discovered growing INSIDE bottles

  09-04-2025 20:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Food and Drug Administration issued a notice this week warning people that nearly 1,000 bottles of the sauce may show signs of 'micro growth through bubbling.'
  
  Read more

• Child doctor accused of using role to abuse staggering number of kids in 'one of America's worst-ever pedophile cases'

  09-04-2025 20:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A New York pediatrician who is accused of sexually abusing more than 100 women has been ordered to pay nearly $2billion to his victims.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• John Fetterman's plea to Americans after experimenting with Ozempic-like drug…but NOT for weight loss

  09-04-2025 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Senator John Fetterman, a democrat from Pennsylvania, admitted to using weight loss drug Mounjaro and issued a desperate plea to lawmakers about the 'game changer' shot.
  
  Read more

• Urgent warning over new drug 100x deadlier than fentanyl that's shipped from China as police make major bust

  09-04-2025 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seven in 10 fatal drug overdoses involve fentanyl - either taken alone or mixed with another drug.
  But health officials are now warning that a deadlier analog is beginning its tear across the country.
  
  Read more

• I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in my 20s... doctors wouldn't listen until I told a lie

  09-04-2025 18:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An Arkansas cafe worker claims that she 'nearly died' after her bowel cancer symptoms were repeatedly dismissed by doctors and diagnosed as IBS.
  
  Read more

• I was sufficiently vaccinated against measles in childhood – or so I thought

  09-04-2025 18:00
  
  One of the requirements of graduate school in the US stumped me: an immunization certificate for the MMR vaccineWhen I enrolled in graduate school at the age of 53, I knew I would probably be the oldest student in class. But I was stumped by one of the admission requirements – an immunization certificate for the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) and tetanus vaccines, verified by a doctor.Fortunately, I had my mother’s handwritten documentation of my vaccines and took this to my primar
  
  Read more

• Expert issues urgent infection warning to women with fake nails - key mistake could leave you with life-wrecking condition

  09-04-2025 17:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While anyone who touches their ear with unwashed hands is at risk of infection, those with extended nails are especially vulnerable.
  
  Read more

• ADHD prescriptions have more than tripled in a decade - and I know exactly why: By top child psychiatrist DR SAMI TIMIMI

  09-04-2025 17:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Last year, 248,000 people in England received ADHD prescriptions - a more than threefold rise since 2015. It baffles me how we got here. Or rather it doesn't. Now there's an entire industry built around it.
  
  Read more

• Doctor predicts three terrifying long term health effects of Ozempic

  09-04-2025 16:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Ben Bickman told DailyMail.com that people should be weary of the outfall that will come with weight loss medications and he predicts three crippling failures of Ozempic.
  
  Read more

• Women should avoid all alcohol to reduce risk of breast cancer, charity says

  09-04-2025 16:31
  
  World Cancer Research Fund goes further than UK and WHO advice on alcohol after review of evidenceWomen should avoid alcohol altogether to reduce their risk of breast cancer, a charity has warned.The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has published a review of evidence on how diet and lifestyle factors can play a role in the development of the disease. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Scientists pinpoint unexpected cause of agonising migraines - breakthrough paves way for simple new treatment

  09-04-2025 16:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Migraine affects one in seven people 'usually feels like a very bad headache with a throbbing pain on one side' - however there are a raft of other distressing symptoms.
  
  Read more

• Twins who went on separate vegan and meat diets reveal shocking results of new plant-based vs animal study

  09-04-2025 16:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ross and Hugo Turner, 36, from Christow in Devon - a pair of identical twins - have given fascinating insight into which is best for the body when it comes to performance.
  
  Read more

• FDA issues health alert after BUTTER sold across US is found to contain dangerous bacteria

  09-04-2025 14:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Popular butter sold in seven states has been voluntarily recalled due to potentially containing dangerous bacteria.
  
  Read more

• ‘We are failing’: doctors and students in the US look to Mexico for basic abortion training

  09-04-2025 14:00
  
  Since Roe was overturned, a growing number of would-be abortion providers have begun to leave the country in search of an education as training in the US dwindlesOn paper, it should not be difficult for Dr Sebastian Ramos to learn to perform abortions. As a family medicine doctor, Ramos works in a specialty that frequently provides the procedure. He lives in deep-blue California, where it is still allowed. And the administrators running Ramos’s residency program – a kind of apprentic
  
  Read more

• ‘A skill you need to save a life’: the US doctors traveling to Mexico for abortion training

  09-04-2025 14:00
  
  Since Roe was overturned, a growing number of would-be abortion providers have begun to leave the country in search of an education as training in the US dwindlesOn paper, it should not be difficult for Dr Sebastian Ramos to learn to perform abortions. As a family medicine doctor, Ramos works in a specialty that frequently provides the procedure. He lives in deep-blue California, where it is still allowed. And the administrators running Ramos’s residency program – a kind of apprentic
  
  Read more

• I'm a Celeb's Reverend Richard Coles reveals he's taking Ozempic: 'I'm too fat'

  09-04-2025 13:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Blockbuster weight loss jabs, including Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro, have long been hailed as a monumental breakthrough in the war on obesity and type 2 diabetes.
  
  Read more

• My 15 year-old came down with a 'virus'... weeks later she was paralysed

  09-04-2025 13:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ellie Morris-Davies and her family believed she had all the signs of a 'bad headache', but tests later revealed something far more serious that was affecting her brain.
  
  Read more

• Alarming new data reveals the sexual orientation at highest risk of self harm - triple the average

  09-04-2025 13:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The risk among Britons who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) was 'particularly high' compared to those who identified as straight, figures showed.
  
  Read more

• Experts fear rise in diseases as layoffs halt health research: ‘Incredibly bizarre gaslighting’

  09-04-2025 12:00
  
  Trump administration’s dismantling of institutions under guise of ‘efficiency’ will lead to a grim future for AmericansMass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) portend a future with more infectious disease outbreaks, chronic conditions, and a widening gulf in health between the most affluent and vulnerable, experts told the Guardian.Further, they said, the Trump administration’s multipronged attacks on American science represent a generation-defin
  
  Read more

• GP flags 3 supplements you should NEVER take - including one that's linked to early death

  09-04-2025 11:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Last summer, a study by scientists in Maryland found that one popular vitamin was associated with a four per cent increased risk of death over the course of the 20-year study.
  
  Read more

• Major supermarket issues 'do not eat' warning for potatoes over deadly allergy risk

  09-04-2025 10:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is feared packs of the side dish may contain hidden traces of milk, which is not featured on the label and poses a risk to anyone with an allergy or intolerance to milk.
  
  Read more

• ‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age-old tropical illnesses

  09-04-2025 09:00
  
  They are debilitating afflictions that people don’t know about, don’t understand and struggle to pronounce. Now health workers fear they will surge in Africa as USAID-funded drug distribution programmes are cutSince 2013, for around two weeks each year, Sulaiman Tarawallie has pulled on his community drug distributor (CDD) uniform and gone from household to household in his remote farming community to hand out medication to fight river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. Once he has
  
  Read more

• First Ofcom probe launched into suicide site exposed by BBC

  09-04-2025 07:00 via bbc.com
  
  BBC News found the forum, which has thousands of members, is linked to at least 50 deaths in the UK.
  
  Read more

• I'm a doctor and here's my simple trick to block out unwanted thoughts so you can fall asleep faster

  09-04-2025 05:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A US emergency room doctor has shared his 'weird' yet effective method for calming the mind, especially for those who struggle to fall asleep due to overthinking at nighttime.
  
  Read more

Follow @Health_UKnews on Twitter!