A TEEN told she had a ‘boring virus’ died after doctors failed to spot signs of lethal meningitis and delayed giving her life-saving antibiotics. Mia Ginever, 19, passed away in intensive care on March 9 2022, after battling bacterial meningitis
Author: Eliza Loukou
Man, 60, suffers multi-organ failure and narrowly escapes death after being stung by a bee
A MAN narrowly escaped death and suffered multiple organ failure after being stung by a giant honey bee. Though the 60-year-old was stung by the bee multiple times, it was until two days after the terrifying incident that he started
Shocking time-lapse video reveals how tiny ‘white spot’ the tongue morphs into killer cancer
A SHOCKING time-lapse video reveals how a tiny white spot on your tongue can morph into tongue cancer over the years. Tongue cancer is a rare type of head and neck cancer, whose symptoms might be mistaken for a mouth
Shocking photos show woman’s horrific reaction to ibuprofen that left her oozing yellow gunk from eyes & scales on skin
A WOMAN suffered a horrific reaction to ibuprofen after a single dose, breaking out in scales across her skin and oozing yellow gunk from her eyes. The 45-year-old visited the emergency department with severely swollen face, red eyes oozing discharge,
Shocking photos show man’s eye ‘falling out his head’ – but it took nine hospital trips to finally get diagnosis
A 24-YEAR-OLD who thought his “protruding” eye might “fall out of his head” visited hospital nine times before being given a terrifying diagnosis. Farid Oladapo was diagnosed with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma – a type of soft tissue cancer – in June
‘Truly shocking’ 250 patients a week ‘die needlessly due to long A&E waits’
MORE than 250 patients are dying needlessly in England each week due to long A&E waits, new estimates suggest. Calculations by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) suggest patients are coming to harm due to spending hours waiting for a
‘Cheap and simple’ blood test could help spot people most at risk of dying early from heart failure in the next 3 years
A NEW “cheap and simple” blood test could help identify people who are at the highest risk of dying from heart failure, research suggests. The study found that patients with highest levels of a specific protein were 50 per cent
How to hay fever-proof your home as ‘early pollen explosion’ hits UK
IF YOU’RE a hay fever sufferer, you probably don’t expect to be struck with the sneezing, coughing and itchy, streaming eyes for a few weeks yet. But meteorologists have warned that unseasonably warm weather this February could see trees shedding