Kate Pickles

UK’s prostate cancer revolution: ‘Biggest trial in a generation’ could lead to a screening programme that slashes disease’s death toll by 40%, top experts hope

By Kate Pickles Health Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 19:01 EDT, 30 April 2024 | Updated: 20:32 EDT, 30…

4 days ago

Proof you CAN outrun bad genes with just four lifestyle tweaks – and it’ll give you an extra five years of life

By Kate Pickles Health Editor Published: 18:30 EDT, 29 April 2024 | Updated: 18:45 EDT, 29 April 2024 People genetically…

5 days ago

Simple blood test could spot patients most at risk of dying from heart failure, study suggests

Experts suggest measuring levels of neuropeptide Y (NPY) in patients By Kate Pickles Health Editor Published: 17:37 EDT, 17 March 2024…

2 months ago

Proof obesity runs in families? Adults are SIX TIMES more likely to be fat in middle-age if their parents were

Researchers found even one obese parent tripled risk of obesity in adulthoodExperts say genes play important role by affecting susceptibility…

2 months ago

Taskforce to revolutionalise cancer care for children giving thousands of sick kids faster access to new treatments, Health Secretary to announce

By Kate Pickles Published: 17:22 EST, 5 February 2024 | Updated: 18:19 EST, 5 February 2024 Children will be given…

3 months ago

ANOTHER maternity scandal? Serious failings at Cheltenham clinic ‘may have led to two baby deaths’

By Kate Pickles Health Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 13:03 EST, 29 January 2024 | Updated: 14:22 EST, 29…

3 months ago

Deaths of women in childbirth hits highest level in two decades amid string of scandals as experts warn failures now span ‘the entire maternity system’

The rate in 2020-2022 hit 13.41 per 100,000 maternities, up on 8.79 in 2017-19 Thrombosis and thromboembolism was logged as the…

4 months ago