Author: Michelle Korhonen
King Charles has been seen returning to London today for more cancer treatment after his first public appearance at Sandringham. The 75-year-old monarch landed at Clarendon House in the royal helicopter after spending a week in Norfolk following the shock announcement.He was pictured with his wife Queen Camilla by his side as the royal couple were driven to nearby Clarence House. The Queen has been carrying out her royal diary of engagements and last week said her husband was doing ‘extremely well under the circumstances’.She said the King, who underwent his first bout of cancer treatment last week, had been ‘very touched’ by…
Portugal has emerged as a promising international model for tackling a deadly drug and addiction crisis. The country has used a focus on health care and community support to save lives.
A mother who lost her son to an asthma attack is campaigning to make inhalers free in England – saying people shouldn’t have to ‘pay to breathe’.Donna Smitheman, 44, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, lost her son, Jordan Ashley Smitheman, 25, in December 2023 when he collapsed following an asthma attack.The mother-of-two and her husband, Steven, 48, performed CPR before paramedics took over – but they were unable to save his life.Donna, who is a special educational needs teaching assistant, is campaigning for asthma treatment to be free in England.Donna said although Jordan was able to afford treatment – and kept an inhaler…
This is the moment Rishi Sunak was confronted by a furious man who demanded that he look him in the eye and give him a straight answer over harm caused by the Covid-19 vaccine. The Prime Minister faced a live TV grilling from voters on issues ranging from the NHS to his Rwanda plan on GB News tonight. An audience member, who suffered serious side effects from the vaccine, used the opportunity to tell Mr. Sunak to see the ‘pain, trauma and regret’ in his eyes. The Covid vaccine has been monitored by the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulator…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA new study conducted by researchers at Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Human Psychopharmacology has made significant findings in the field of medical cannabis use. Published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology in February 2024, the research suggests that medical cannabis, when used as prescribed for a chronic health condition, has a negligible impact on simulated driving performance.The open-label study assessed the influence of prescribed medical cannabis on simulated driving performance among 40 patients with a range of chronic health conditions. Participants had their driving ability assessed in a simulator before and after consuming a standard dose…
Anti-vaccine sentiment has infected almost every part of America after the Covid pandemic – from academia to politics.But the anti-vax movement appears to have now have infiltrated the world of online sperm donation, where wannabe mothers seek out samples from men who refused to take the Covid shot.Jonathan David Rinaldi, dubbed ‘The Sperminator’, was a prolific donor for years on the Facebook group Sperm Donation USA, the largest sperm donation group in America.But after seeing a ‘massive increase’ in requests for sperm from unvaccinated donors, he broke off and started his own splinter group exclusively for the anti-vax. Women searching for ‘unvaccinated sperm donors’ specify…
A vegan diet could improve the sex lives of men and treat their erectile dysfunction, a study suggests.A team from New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health looked at 3,500 men with prostate cancer for their research.Some common side effects of prostate cancer treatment include erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence.But the new research indicates that a diet which limits meat and dairy but is rich in fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts is linked to improved symptoms.The team found that a plant-based diet improved the men’s sex lives by up to 11 per cent –…
Natalie Barr weighed in on the controversial fairy bread debate on Tuesday morning after school canteens began banning the Aussie classic over the weekend.The Sunrise anchor, 55, shares sons Lachlan, 20, and Hunter, 17, with husband Andrew Thompson, with the youngest of the two finishing school just last year.Now the television presenter has said on her Seven breakfast show that banning the sweet treats from school canteens just makes youngsters ‘want’ them more.Fellow journalists Suzanne Mostyn and Joe Hildebrand were expressing their opinion on the controversial matter during a Hot Topics segment with Nat.‘Scarcity breeds demand and I just think those…
Last night, the shopping app Temu, which is not quite a year and a half old, ran its second Super Bowl ad in as many years. It was hard to miss, because the same ad appeared several times, including following the game-winning touchdown. By most estimates, the three times the ad was featured in the middle of gameplay would have cost an eye-watering $21 million alone.Alongside ads in which Beyoncé announced a new album and Sir Patrick Stewart proposed skinning Peppa Pig to make a football, the content of Temu’s ad was comparatively unremarkable. It had no A-list celebrities or…
US women are among the heaviest binge drinkers in the world – but British women can drink them under the table, a newly released international report found. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its ‘Health at a Glance 2023’ report Tuesday, which compared alcohol consumption across its 38 member countries. Denmark and the UK ranked highest on the binge drinking chart, with 28 percent and 25.5 percent, respectively, of adult women reporting heavy episodic drinking in 2019. US women, who ranked fourth, outdrank females in most other countries, with 20.9 percent of adult women reporting heavy drinking.The report defines binge…