Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have maintained an upbeat and positive attitude since going into quarantine in Australia following their cornonavirus diagnosis earlier this week. And now, in a move to stave off cabin fever and have some social interaction, Wilson took to social media to ask her followers to help her use the power … Read more
American actor Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson, both 63, tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday while in Queensland, Australia. And on Friday, Australian singer Amy Shark made a generous offer to Tom and his wife amid their forced quarantine Down Under. The Adore hit-maker, 32, offered her $2.25 million lavish waterfront home in Queensland’s … Read more
Maria Menounos is urging the public not to dismiss symptoms as merely ‘work stress’ as she did prior to her brain tumor diagnosis. The 40-year-old Sirius XM host revealed in July 2017 that she had a mass the size of a golf ball and that she’d undergone surgery to remove it. In a recent appearance … Read more
Gene test hope for critically ill babies as DNA testing on the NHS could speed up diagnosis and lead to quicker treatment Worried families used to have to wait three months on average for a diagnosis Now ‘whole-exome’ testing will provide an answer in about ten days The test could pick up rare diseases including … Read more
Bachelorette alum JP Rosenbaum has made progress that he feels is ‘slow,’ but is better than his physical therapist expected just three weeks after his shock diagnosis with Guillain-Barré syndrome. ‘I’m very very lucky to be able to do things three weeks later that I shouldn’t be able to do,’ Rosenbaum said his therapist told … Read more
Thousands of women’s lives are being lost to ovarian cancer because of needless delays in diagnosis, damning report warns Report by the Target Ovarian Cancer charity says there is huge postcode lottery In England, percentage diagnosed before untreatable ranges from 56% to 29% GPs and women themselves often do not know which symptoms to look … Read more
Identical twins with Down’s syndrome have starred in a heartwarming film that follows the pair doing work experience to help them figure out what they want to be when they grow up. Elaine Scougal, from Dundee, made a social media page for her twins Ollie and Cameron, six, when they were newborns, after constantly receiving ‘pitying reactions’ … Read more
The first case of coronavirus where the origin of the disease is unknown has been confirmed in the United States, officials revealed Wednesday. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that the person, a resident in Northern California, had not recently returned from a foreign country, and had not been in contact with another confirmed case. … Read more
Deborah James has a firm date in her diary for March, to go to Manchester and run 5km in the time that it takes the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to play Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. It sounds like a fun challenge to take on in aid of Sport Relief. But for Deborah, the issue isn’t so much … Read more