Immune system

A Tory MP has told how both his hands and feet were amputated after he got sepsis.Craig Mackinlay said he is “extremely lucky to be alive” as he prepares to return to Parliament on Wednesday. The MP for South Thanet told of the horror of…

Google spent much of the past year hustling to build its Gemini chatbot to counter ChatGPT, pitching it as a multifunctional AI assistant that can help with work tasks or the digital chores of personal life. More quietly, the company has…

Day 362 of Rishi Sunak Looking Tough And Doing Things, and he is introduced a ban on disposable vapes to go alongside his ban on shopping for cigarette gross sales to create a "smokefree" era.But he is being so powerful it will all occur…

Do you ever feel like crap when your period starts, or perhaps in the week or so before your period? Social media has dubbed this the “period flu,” and places like TikTok are full of tips about why it happens and how to deal with it.…

Maintaining healthy teeth is obviously important for us, but the same is also true for our cats. Although we may not think about a cat’s dental health quite as often as ours—and attempting to brush their teeth can be its own battle—cats can…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging people to stop issuing and using EzriCare Artificial Tears while they investigate dozens of bacterial infections that have left three people permanently blind and one dead,…

Transplant patients face dying before they can get vital organs because frustrations over NHS waiting lists mean fewer donors. Leading liver transplant specialist Professor Douglas Thorburn says potential donors and their families are…

A former nurse has shared shocking images of her son in a ten day coma – when he nearly died after getting the flu. Jack Hollingsworth, 19, was rushed to hospital after becoming severely unwell at home after he contracted the flu…