All posts by MWN
The ABC of UVA
Lois Rogers The Sunday Times 19 July 2015 If you’re lying by a pool with the delicious sensation of the sun penetrating deep into your skin, stop reading now. Yes, you know the sun’s rays are harmful, but did you realise the shrivelled-prune effect favoured by a certain breed of thin Frenchwoman is caused by the longest waves of […]
Lucky few have gene recipe for youthful looks
The Sunday Times 7 June 2015 (The model Iman may carry genes allowing her to look far younger than her age of 59 Photograph: Celebrity Monitor, PacificCoastN/Celebrity Monitor, PacificCoastNews) SCIENTISTS believe they have identified a group of genes that allow some people to look far younger than their true age. A project involving almost […]
Doctors to test statins on private cancer patients
The Sunday Times 17 May 2015 A GROUP of doctors are to offer a cocktail of common drugs including statins to 5,000 terminally ill cancer private patients to create a large-scale trial that they hope will convince the NHS to adopt the treatment. Their patients, who will each be charged a fee of £400 and […]
The women saying no to breast cancer screening: As evidence rises that many are harmed by unnecessary treatment, why more women are refusing checks
More women than ever are surviving breast cancer, and that’s often credited to the national breast screening programme. The programme, which offers checks every three years to all women aged from 50 to 70, is thought to prevent 1,300 deaths a year from the disease. Yet women are questioning whether genuine cases are being uncovered at too […]
‘Botch job’ doctor offers private facelifts
The Sunday Times 15 March 2015 A SURGEON facing claims that he botched facial reconstruction operations on his NHS patients is offering Botox treatments and mini facelifts at a private clinic, an investigation has found. Roger Bainton left his job as a maxillofacial specialist at the Royal Stoke University Hospital in Staffordshire earlier this […]
‘I have a constant burning sensation down through my leg and foot’: The amputees in agony from limbs no longer there
The Daily Mail 23 February 2015 Two weeks after her 41st birthday, Sue Cook’s life changed for ever. She was on a pheasant shoot when she was injured in a freak accident. A woman standing near her failed to unload the unused cartridges in her gun. As she put it away, both barrels went off. […]
Cell breakthrough to bring two-dad babies
The Sunday Times 22 February 2015 SCIENTISTS have shown for the first time that it is possible to make human egg and sperm cells using skin from two adults of the same sex. The breakthrough raises the prospect of the first fully “manufactured” baby made in a laboratory dish from the skin cells of two […]
Scandal of fruit netting ‘approved as surgical implant’
The Sunday Times 11 January 2015 AN OXFORD scientist joined an undercover investigation to expose how the regulation of medical devices is so lax that mesh packaging for fruit could be approved as a medical device to be implanted in people’s bodies. Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford, agreed to produce a fake […]
Brains of new dads rewired to play mummy
The Sunday Times 21 December 2014 Abu Amin, with wife Henriette and baby Noa, says fatherhood can have a double-edged effect (Akira Suemori) MODERN man can mother a child as well as any woman, new research suggests. The first project to study brain activity in new fathers shows that men develop extra mental connections just […]
Shockingly common, the cruel genital birth defect thousands of men have – but never talk about
The Daily Mail 11 November 2014 As estate agent, James Newman goes about his business, confidently valuing exclusive houses in the wealthy London commuter belt where he works, no one would guess he suffers from a humiliating genital defect. It is a problem that affects around 1 in 300 men, blighting their relationships and condemning […]