You have been planning every single detail of your next epic vacation and yet, you might be forgetting one detail: travel compression socks. You’ve got your carry-on luggage in one hand, checked ...

One sign of moon facies is that if you look at the patient directly, face to face, you can't see their ears. Other symptoms associated with excess cortisol include a buffalo hump (dorsal fat pad), ...

Chronic kidney disease, also called End Stage Renal Failure, describes the gradual loss of kidney function. The kidneys filter waste and excess fluids from the blood, which is then excreted ...

A South African woman pleaded with Mzansi to help her with her child, who needs brain surgery. The community rallied around the boy as they offered their support.

A student who blamed her swelling on too many holiday ice-creams was stunned to discover it was caused by a mosquito bite that left her paralysed for a month. Lucy Slawson noticed a rash on her feet ...

DVT is a life-threatening condition — here's what doctors want you to know about your risk and what you can do to safeguard ...

Swelling of the ankles, known as oedema, is linked to fluid accumulation and is cited by the NHS as a primary indicator of ...

The symptoms of heart failure can differ among individuals and may appear suddenly or 'develop gradually' over weeks or even months. Other warning signs to be aware of include: Breathlessness. This ...

A 'treasured' dad died just days after falling at home in Stoke-on-Trent and ending up with a small cut between two of his ...

For nurses, servers, construction workers, and many others, work means a lot of time on their feet. Repeated motions can lead ...

An inquest heard Christopher Bradbury, from Trentham, Staffordshire, suffered a rare 'Severe Invasive Soft Tissue Infection', ...

Student Lucy Slawson started seeing a rash on her feet and arms after she was bitten by a mosquito while holidying in Antalya ...