Category: Health

Toxic metals are lurking in cheap vapes puffed by schoolkids, a shock investigation revealed today.  Tests on e-cigarettes confiscated from youngsters found they contained dangerous levels of lead, nickel and chromium. Some were almost 10 times above safe limits.  Exposure to lead can impair brain development, while the other two metals can trigger blood clotting.  One…

It’s a deadly type of cancer that’s on the rise.  Around 12,400 new cases of head and neck cancers are diagnosed in the UK each year, with roughly 66,000 in the US.  But symptoms can be hard to spot, according to the NHS.  Earlier today MailOnline revealed the convicted paedophile TV host and musician Rolf…

A well-known eccentric tech mogul with a zeal for looking younger has taken the drastic step of swapping blood plasma with his father and young son.  Bryan Johnson is a world-famous biohacker who has become notorious for spending millions of dollars every year on a cadre of doctors and medical procedures that purport to carry…

A Washington-state man was hospitalized and suffered at least four seizures after drinking a fluid for sports cars that he mistook for an energy drink. The 54-year-old, who has not been named, glugged from a 12-fluid ounce bottle of NOS Octane Booster Racing Formula believing it was, in fact, NOS High Performance Energy Drink. Two…

A Washington-state man was hospitalized and suffered at least four seizures after drinking a fluid for sports cars that he mistook for an energy drink. The 54-year-old, who has not been named, glugged from a 12-fluid ounce bottle of NOS Octane Booster Racing Formula believing it was, in fact, NOS High Performance Energy Drink. Two…

You might already be a convert to sourdough bread — perhaps you even make your own.  But did you know that, with the right ingredients, it could improve sleep and lower high blood pressure? That at least is the claim made by Mim Habits, a Spanish company that has launched a range of loaves in…

Patients taking the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy are reporting an unusual added benefit — they are free from other addictions that used to rule their lives. Users across the country claim their cravings for cigarettes and alcohol became less intense when they started taking the slimming injection. Others say bad habits like biting their nails, picking…

The planet should be ready for a disease even deadlier than Covid, the head of the World Health Organisation warned yesterday. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the World Health Assembly forum that the threat of another public health crisis could not be kicked ‘down the road’. He also claimed that, despite the darkest days of the…

Britain’s worst-performing pharmacies are today named and shamed by a forensic MailOnline audit — with an interactive map allowing you to check if yours is one of the offenders. Our investigation reveals 108 high street chemists were reprimanded for failing to meet basic standards over the past year.  Ten were subject to enforcement action for…

Zimbabwe is the world’s most miserable country, trumping Venezuela, Cuba and war-torn Syria.  That is according to an annual ‘misery index’, which ranks almost 160 countries on factors like unemployment figures, inflation and bank-lending rates. The African nation, home to roughly 16million people, has now ranked among the top five gloomiest nations for three years in…