News – Lois Rogers

Health

20 Oct 2020

Health benefits of nicotine

Health

05 Oct 2020

Silent suffering: another women’s problem

Health

29 Sep 2020

Imaginary impotence

Health

21 Sep 2020

Food additives linked to disease

Health

08 Sep 2020

Magnesium a magic supplement

Health

24 Aug 2020

Britain’s health divide: From cancer and Covid to dementia and childbirth, black and ethnic minority patients are shamefully more at risk. And worst of all? We STILL don’t know why

Health

21 Jul 2020

Is it time to BAN electric shock therapy?

Health

14 Jul 2020

Will victims of mesh scandal be betrayed all over again?

Health

01 Jul 2020

We must ban the mesh for good

Health

30 Jun 2020

The 3p wonder pill: Metformin is already used for diabetes, but now doctors hope it could work for heart disease, cancer and even Covid.

Health

22 Jun 2020

Can we trust ANY antibody test? With more than 200 different brands offering them, top expert argues there’s little proof they all work

Health

25 May 2020

The cell receptors found in the nose, lungs and gut that could be the reason why being overweight (or a man) makes YOU more at risk of catching coronavirus

Health

11 May 2020

Is inflammation the link between dementia, cancer and coronavirus?

Health

04 May 2020

Vital fingertip alarm that can protect lives: Doctors call for oxygen monitors to be prescribed to most vulnerable

Health

28 Apr 2020

Should YOU spend £190 on an immunity test? Some doctors are charging a high price to find out if you’ve had Covid-19

Health

20 Apr 2020

How losing weight could be key to surviving Covid-19: Excess mass makes it harder for lungs to supply oxygen to vital organs

Health

13 Apr 2020

Growing fear you can catch Covid-19 more than once as patients who’ve recovered start to test positive again

Health

05 Feb 2020

New implant illness doctors tried to dismiss: Fatigue, chronic pain, insomnia, even hair loss

Health

20 Jan 2020

Why women’s agonising UTIs are STILL being misdiagnosed: Bacteria in urine samples often vanish by the time test tube gets to lab for analysis

Health

04 Nov 2019

Meet the women whose lives were ruined by operations they didn’t even need and the mesh-implant surgery that has devastating consequences

Health

09 Sep 2019

New breast implant cancer scandal: As revealed in the heartbreaking account of this mother — who was forced to tell her son she may die

Health

26 Aug 2019

One in six couples who have fertility treatment at vast personal cost go on to conceive naturally. Now meet the families who did just that – and say they’re proof you don’t need IVF

Health

29 Jul 2019

Could cheap drugs (up to a century old) be the new way to tackle cancer?

Health

18 Jun 2019

Phages – the answer in the battle to beat superbugs?

Health

09 Jun 2019

NHS ‘spends £120m clearing up mess of private IVF clinics’

Health

28 May 2019

Does vitamin D help cancer patients?

Health

06 May 2019

Safer options to mesh surgery?

Women's health

08 Apr 2019

Women surgery victims left behind

Health

18 Mar 2019

Painkiller deaths

Cancer

01 Jan 2019

Breast implants – the alarming truth about cancer

Health

21 Nov 2018

Breast implants – the hidden cancer scandal

Health Health Policy Nutraceuticals

15 Oct 2018

Do legal cannabis products really work as well as over-the-counter Ibuprofen?

Infertility

10 Sep 2018

The male infertility injustice: Why does the IVF industry still focus on women?

Health

06 Aug 2018

Men left in agony by surgical mesh implants

Health

24 Jun 2018

The great NHS cover‑up: opiate syringes may have killed thousands

Health

24 Jun 2018

Cheap, faulty and pumping death straight into the veins

Health

24 Jun 2018

Nurse who took her own life, Anne Grigg-Booth, is another victim of Graseby syringe scandal, says son

Health

17 Jun 2018

Gosport GP Jane Barton ‘responsible for hundreds of hospital deaths’

Health

17 Jun 2018

Reckoning looms for ‘Dr Opiate’, Gosport GP Jane Barton, after 27 years and 833 deaths

Health

17 Jun 2018

Opiate death relatives speak: ‘I wish I’d trusted my instincts and got him out’

Mental health

04 Jun 2018

Surgical mesh death

Health Policy

24 Apr 2018

Women crippled by ‘disintegrating’ contraceptive implant

Health

23 Apr 2018

10 million lives could be lost to superbugs

Health Policy

27 Feb 2018

Major review into health scandals

Infection

17 Feb 2018

Rare hospital infection hitting heart patients

Health Infection

12 Feb 2018

Why scarlet fever is making a comeback

Society

11 Feb 2018

Doctors errors help jail parents

Health Infection

06 Feb 2018

Australian flu threatens Britain

Infection

06 Feb 2018

Post baby operation linked to superbug infection

Anti-ageing medicine

23 Jan 2018

Breast implants linked to blood cancer

Health

12 Dec 2017

Woman left paralysed after drug withdrawal

Society

10 Dec 2017

Freed paedophile gets job as teacher

Women's health

28 Nov 2017

Victory for women crippled by mesh implants

Health

30 Oct 2017

Failure of ‘easy’ contraception

Health Policy

24 Oct 2017

Faulty batteries in heart defibrillators

Health Policy

16 Oct 2017

Shocking failings in the medical device industry

Mental health

02 Oct 2017

Rise in university campus suicides

Health Policy

23 Sep 2017

999 call operators order grieving relatives to perform CPR on dead bodies

Anti-ageing medicine

06 Sep 2017

Is it possible to reverse Alzheimer’s?

Health

20 Aug 2017

Gosport GP Jane Barton was ‘brusque, unfriendly and indifferent’

People

20 Aug 2017

Gosport hospital deaths inquiry looks into 800 certificates signed by Dr Opiate

Infection

14 Aug 2017

Could viruses that eat bacteria solve the superbug crisis?

Infection

31 Jul 2017

The truth about antibiotics

Health

25 Jul 2017

Women damaged by surgical mesh furious at report rejecting calls for a ban

Cancer

24 Jul 2017

Curry spice helped dying woman beat cancer

Health

09 Jul 2017

Breast implant cancer

Health

02 Jul 2017

A quarter of patients ‘left damaged’ by back surgery

Health

13 Jun 2017

EXPOSED: NHS paying millions for dangerous private operations

Health

06 Jun 2017

Horror stories of post baby op that can ruin lives

Health

13 May 2017

Mother to sue GP for circumcision ‘assault’ on son

Health

01 May 2017

Why is the NHS still failing to help the women maimed by post baby surgery?

Health

24 Apr 2017

The truth about the miracle cure that promises to treat everything: Stem cells are known for their remarkable healing powers. But while they work for many, others have been left unaffected by treatment

Health

19 Feb 2017

How many more will fall victim to heart op machine’s killer bug?

Health

23 Jan 2017

The simple cocktail that fights cancer…

Health

22 Jan 2017

47,000 patients warned over heart op machine bug blamed for 15 deaths

Health People

16 Jan 2017

The women left unable to sit down for years after; having a baby

Health

08 Jan 2017

I had to let my baby die in the womb in order to save twin

Health Policy

20 Dec 2016

Revealed: The frail and distressed patients left on doorsteps in the early hours to free-up hospital beds

Health

15 Dec 2016

Fertility breakthrough offers hope for Gulf Arabs with genetic blood disorders

Health

09 Dec 2016

A bitter pill: the dispute over statins

Health Policy

08 Nov 2016

Can BILL GATES find a cure for the Zika virus?

Health Policy

07 Nov 2016

Patients asked to pay thousands for cancer drug trial

Health Policy

18 Sep 2016

Cancer treatment stopped to pay for HIV drug

Health Policy

18 Sep 2016

Statins expert in row over level of risk to patients

Health

26 Jul 2016

Are you paying the NHS for more drugs than you need? Billions worth of life-saving cancer remedies are poured down the drain every year

Health

12 Jul 2016

When back pain is a sign you have broken bones: Former national athlete discovered fractures in her back due to osteoporosis

Health Policy

20 Jun 2016

Why asbestos in schools is STILL a deadly danger to our children: Experts predict 60,000 related deaths over the next 30 years

Health policy

30 May 2016

Patients who pay £1,000 for life-saving drugs online that would cost NHS £35,000: More and more are doing it – but doctors warn it’s a big risk

Health Policy

23 Feb 2016

Why walking by a main road is as bad for you as smoking. And beware of your air freshener, too!

Health

14 Feb 2016

UK breakthrough on zika vaccine

People

14 Feb 2016

Osborne family firm pays no corporation tax

Society

07 Dec 2015

For 60 years, Steve thought he was the only man in the world with this mortifying genital defect. But in fact it’s surprisingly common

Health

07 Dec 2015

High Street chemists who charge the NHS £300 for skin creams that should cost £12

Society

01 Dec 2015

Good news! Forget adventurous positions and eating the ‘right’ foods…having sex twice within an hour TRIPLES men’s fertility

Health

23 Nov 2015

Scandal of patients denied 5p pill that shrinks cancer: Last week we revealed NHS pays crazily high prices for life extending drugs. But the madness doesn’t end there

Health

16 Nov 2015

Sickening rip off: Smaller than a matchstick, this is a year’s dose of a life extending blood cancer drug. The NHS pays £115,000 for it – yet it costs just £100 to make

Health

08 Nov 2015

New jab to end need for annual flu shot

Health

03 Nov 2015

Crippled by statins: Cholesterol-busting drugs left David in a wheelchair – but doctors insisted he keep taking them

Health

30 Jul 2015

Targeting metabolic pathways: why are we missing a trick in cancer treatment?

People

27 Jul 2015

The cut-price fertility boost that childless couples are not told about: IUI versus IVF ‘comes down to profit margins’, say doctors

Cosmeceuticals

19 Jul 2015

The ABC of UVA

People

07 Jun 2015

Lucky few have gene recipe for youthful looks

Health

17 May 2015

Doctors to test statins on private cancer patients

Health Policy

04 May 2015

The women saying no to breast cancer screening: As evidence rises that many are harmed by unnecessary treatment, why more women are refusing checks

Risk

15 Mar 2015

‘Botch job’ doctor offers private facelifts

People

23 Feb 2015

‘I have a constant burning sensation down through my leg and foot’: The amputees in agony from limbs no longer there

Science

22 Feb 2015

Cell breakthrough to bring two-dad babies

Health

11 Jan 2015

Scandal of fruit netting ‘approved as surgical implant’

People

21 Dec 2014

Brains of new dads rewired to play mummy

People

11 Nov 2014

Shockingly common, the cruel genital birth defect thousands of men have – but never talk about

Cosmeceuticals

09 Nov 2014

City air makes skin age faster

Science

17 Aug 2014

Cleaning Up

Cosmeceuticals

27 Jul 2014

Sun Safe?

Health

15 Jun 2014

Thousands of deaths blamed on stroke drug

Health Policy

27 Apr 2014

Parents want end to ban on testing of newborns for fatal diseases

Society

09 Apr 2014

AN OVERVIEW OF WORKPLACE ABSENTEEISM IN EUROPE

Society

06 Apr 2014

Tycoon’s infected ex-lover backs HIV alert for women

Society

02 Mar 2014

Victims of swine flu jab to get £60m payout

Society

23 Feb 2014

Victims start new thalidomide fight

Health Health Policy People Risk Science Society Wellbeing

12 Feb 2014

Have 800 women been killed by the Pill? The alarming dangers of taking so-called third generation contraceptives

Health Health Policy

26 Jan 2014

800,000 killed by beta blockers

Anti-ageing medicine Health Health Policy Obesity People Science Wellbeing

19 Jan 2014

Mo Zimmer:elderly run faster and faster

Anti-ageing medicine Cosmeceuticals People Science

12 Jan 2014

Cracking idea to thicken hair with windscreen fixer

Anti-ageing medicine Health Health Policy People Society

01 Jan 2014

Should your grumpy old man be on HRT? Despite doctors’ concerns,growing numbers of men insist testosterone jabs have transformed their lives

Anti-ageing medicine Health People Society

24 Nov 2013

Flabby fellas in rush for testosterone

Health Health Policy People Science

17 Nov 2013

Drug firms look away while my children die

Anti-ageing medicine

20 Oct 2013

Something in the water

Science

01 Oct 2013

Trouble spots: Research suggests that a natural virus can be used to counter acne, but not everyone is convinced

Anti-ageing medicine

01 Oct 2013

In the flesh: You might hate the fat on your thighs, but it could be the next big weapon in the fight against ageing

Society

01 Oct 2013

Hey, handsome, that’s a big pay packet you’ve got

Health Health Policy Infection Science

22 Sep 2013

Cancer alert over toxic tattoo inks

Health

18 Aug 2013

The heat is on: Teenage skin cancer rates are on the up. Are bargain holidays to blame?

Anti-ageing medicine Health Health Policy Science Society

11 Aug 2013

Laser test to tell us when we will die

Health

28 Jul 2013

Man survives for two years without heart

Cosmeceuticals

21 Jul 2013

Getting even: The days of age spots and wrinkles may soon be over. An independent trial suggests a new breakthrough product really could really hold back the years.

Society

11 Jun 2013

The women told they’re depressed when in fact it’s ‘menstrual psychosis’

Anti-ageing medicine

10 Jun 2013

The secret £10 wrinkle buster… and why the cosmetic giants don’t want you to know about it

Anti-ageing medicine

26 May 2013

Smooth operator: A new invasive treatment promises to banish cellulite for at least a year — but how effective is it?

Health Policy

19 May 2013

Jolie gene flaw — now first man has surgery

Health policy

05 May 2013

Wiggins joins race to save lives: The cyclist wants untried drugs to be fast-tracked to help the dying

Health Policy

21 Apr 2013

My girl was judged too young to live

Health Policy

14 Apr 2013

Dying beg to become medical guinea pigs

Anti-ageing medicine

24 Feb 2013

Fill by mouth

Health Policy

10 Feb 2013

Who Cares?

Society

03 Feb 2013

Epilepsy drug link to brain damage in 17,500 babies

Society

13 Jan 2013

‘I will do everything to protect our baby from evil’

Health Policy

05 Dec 2012

Male infertility Male infertility is soaring. So why do doctors keep blaming the woman when she can’t have a baby?

Health

07 Oct 2012

Something fishy

Anti-ageing medicine

16 Sep 2012

Voice-lift ops put aged back on song

People Science

19 Aug 2012

Hats off to science – a gene cure for baldness is nigh

Health Health Policy Risk

15 Jul 2012

Buy one, get one free on breast ops

Society

24 Jun 2012

Britain’s power women are getting slimmer

Risk Science

29 Apr 2012

Weedkiller linked to birth defects

Health policy

07 Apr 2012

Conflicts of interest in medicine and science

Health Science

26 Feb 2012

‘Duracell’ pump gives new hope to heart patients

Society

12 Feb 2012

Man gives birth to baby

Science

29 Jan 2012

Miracles can happen

Science Society

22 Jan 2012

Flash, bang, dollop – ingredients used in film ‘stop signs of ageing’

Health

01 Jan 2012

Anti-ageing cream ‘tricks’ skin into regenerating

Health

18 Dec 2011

First diet pill that doesn´t make you ill

Science

04 Dec 2011

No stress, no fear, no panic: it´s Supersoldier

Health

06 Nov 2011

Doctors shun hospital at the heart of care scandal

Health Science

01 Nov 2011

Could we face the return of CJD? Experts fear it may lie dormant in thousands

People

16 Oct 2011

Benn buries old rivalry to save home of Ted Heath

Green

16 Oct 2011

Gut-sucking cannibals lead invasion of creepy-crawlies

Society

09 Oct 2011

The Cameron Fat Tax Diet (Lose pounds fast!)

Wellbeing

09 Oct 2011

Do looks matter?

Science

02 Oct 2011