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Last week it was revealed that a Scottish nurse had died after just two weight-loss injections. Susan McGowan is believed to be the first person in the UK whose death is linked to Mounjaro, which is approved for use on the NHS. Here's everything you need to know about using weight-loss injections safely.

Raw footage shows one beautician crudely continuing to suck out fat from a client's cheek using a 'suction wand' - a long metal tube that pierces the skin - despite her clearly being in pain. Cameras also capture the practitioner admitting she only ever damaged just 'two nerves' and 'one artery' during the hundreds of other procedures she has done. All of the hard-hitting clips were secretly captured by an undercover reporter who had signed up for a one-day training course at Luxury Medical Aesthetics in Clapham, south west London. Experts today slammed the 'unbelievable' and 'disgusting' practices that were found in the ITV News probe. Doctors also warned Brits contemplating getting non-surgical procedures to choose carefully and only ever opt for experienced practitioners.

Roy Pollitt didn't know his wife, Susan, 77, was being treated by a physician associate, a relatively new role that only requires two years of medical training and originally designed to support doctors. Physician associates, also called PAs, have been mired in controversy, being labelled cut-price medics and substitutes for doctors as they're cheaper to hire. PAs are not qualified to diagnose patients, prescribe drugs or order scans, and are meant to be constantly monitored by a doctor.Yet as a concerning number of cases suggest, hospitals are using PAs to cover for a lack of doctors in wards. Mr Pollit said he firmly believed his wife would still be here today had she not been seen by a PA. 'She would have lived if the NHS had not used cheap labour ,' he told the BBC. A coroner, at an inquest into her death held earlier this year, said Mrs Pollitt's death highlighted a lack of a national framework covering PAs' training, supervision and competency.

Melinda Martinez, 43, believes a 'blurry figure' in haunting photos taken by the police shows her child's spirit. Her daughter Isabelle Gonzalez, 16, died in a car crash after she went out with three friends, drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana. She got into a car with her friends and Brandon Gomez Hunsperger, 22, who was drunk driving. The car spun out of control and crashed into a tree, in San Jose, California .

The jabs - medical-grade gels that sit beneath skin - are supposedly age-defying procedures to smooth lines and restore volume in the face. But getting them in the lateral cheek arches - or cheek bones -can 'distort your features', one American cosmetic expert said. According to Missouri-based aesthetic physician associate Molly Bailey, this because the area doesn't tend to lose much volume as we age, unlike the apples of our cheeks. Filler here, known medically as the zygomatic arch, therefore becomes 'more visible', with even making the face 'look wider' and 'more masculine'.

William Horley was just 17 when he suffered an accidental overdose of tramadol in 2018. The teen, who had been accepted into the army, bought the prescription drug for £60 from another boy who found them on the dark web - part of the internet not visible to normal search engines. On a night out with friends, after finishing their shifts at a seafood restaurant, he took the tablets while drinking and had a fatal reaction. Now, Kim Webster from Herne Bay in Kent, is on a mission to save young lives and discourage drug use by telling her tragic tale schoolchildren across the country.

Dylan Riley, 31, [pictured] thought nothing of the minor cut on his knee sustained in a game of frisbee golf. But mere weeks later, he was in the hospital with toxic shock syndrome and needed multiple amputations as his limbs turned black due to lack of oxygen.

An Israeli review of the latest scientific literature found babies with a genetic predisposition to autism exposed to four common air pollutants were more likely to develop the condition. It's thought that when breathed in during early childhood or in the womb these microscopic pollutants can get into the bloodstream. There, they can bypass the protective layers of the brain, causing inflammation, changing the way nerves function and develop. It comes as autism rates have exploded worldwide in recent years. Analysis shows diagnoses of the disorder have risen nearly 800 per cent in Britain over the last few decades, with rates nearly tripling in the US . Dr Haitham Amal, head of the department of Laboratory of Neuromics, Cell Signaling, and Translational Medicine at Hebrew University of Jerusalem , who led the new study, said they were trying to understand what might be contributing to this rise. His lab has mainly focused on nitric oxide (NO), a gas released when fossil fuel gets burned in cars.

Finally, I admitted it. Crying all day. Staring blindly out of windows. Incapable of the most basic tasks. Waking with the weight of the whole dark sky on my head, only to long for night so I could go back to bed.

A major crackdown will stop 'rip off' agencies charging the NHS £3billion a year for temporary workers. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said 'desperate hospitals' have been forced to pay 'eye-watering sums' of up to £2,000 for a single nursing shift. He accused the firms of fuelling staff shortages by luring employees away from permanent NHS roles with the promise of more pay. They are then loaned back to the health service at inflated rates, leaving taxpayers out of pocket.

Exhausted after a night shift on a busy hospital ward, Dr Vishwaraj Vemala fell asleep almost as soon as he boarded his flight to India , only to be nudged awake by his mother a few hours later telling him there was 'a problem'.

While some oils promise the health conscious endless benefits such as boosting heart and brain health, others increase the your risk of heart disease. Now one expert has put the debate to bed, detailing exactly which oils you should be opting for. According to Rob Hobson, registered nutritionist and author of 'Unprocess Your Family Life', one oil often berated for its fat content isn't actually as harmful as you might think. One other, could even help protect against heart disease.

US health officials have already proposed getting rid of oral drugs containing the decongestant phenylephrine over concerns they are 'not effective' and a waste of Americans' cash. If accepted, it could see popular over-the-counter tablets and pills discontinued the other side of the Atlantic. Health experts are calling for the same to happen in Britain, arguing that UK customers are being hoodwinked by the drug firms behind the 'useless' medicines - which include Sudafed, Lemsip and Beechams.

Caroline Mansi was on a woodland walk in springtime with her sister when she was suddenly overcome with dizziness and felt a huge rush of menstrual blood. 'I had to lie down on the forest floor because I was so weak and faint,' recalls Caroline, then 39, a primary school assistant headmistress in Enfield. It was ten minutes before she felt strong enough to get to her feet. They took the quickest route back to the car park, where Caroline dashed into the public loo. 'Looking down, I was soaked in blood,' she recalls. 'I'd also passed an enormous clot, with a 10cm diameter, as well as my coil. I had to change all my clothes.' Caroline went to A&E, where she had blood tests, but then went home after a long wait - frustrated after getting no answers or advice from the doctors.

But one of the UK's top diet experts has issued a clear warning about much loved tinned and packet tomato soups, due potential health risks. According to Professor Tim Spector, founder of the popular nutrition ZOE app, they are lacking in vital nutrients. And unlike some of their fresh counterparts, they are often packed full of 'extra chemicals and extracts'.

A brutally frank TikTok from the UKs top social media doctor has demonstrated key differences between bleeding caused by haemorrhoids and deadly colon cancer. In the clip, NHS surgeon Dr Karan Rajan reacts to a startling video previous posted by Colon Cancer Amigo which has been viewed more than eight million times. In it, the TikTok creator, who was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer at 32, demonstrates with a red marker pen what his toilet tissue looked like after wiping when he had haemorrhoids. Also known as piles, millions are affected by these swollen blood vessels in the back passage that can bleed. While uncomfortable, they are generally considered benign.

The seemingly innocuous, if uncomfortable, symptom is suffered by millions: a mouth ulcer. And when Sinead Marland noticed she had one, she thought little of it. It had stubbornly refused to disappear after three weeks - so the mother-of-two, saw her GP. It was nothing to worry about, she was told. The small, raised white lump on her tongue was irritating rather than painful. But reassured, Sinead, then 39, put it down to the stress of running around after her children. Two months later, Sinead visited her dentist for a check up. She had learnt to live with the uncomfortable ulcer but the dentist was concerned, and referred her to a specialist. A series of tests finally revealed the shocking truth: it was a mouth cancer .

Scientists have long known that those who regularly guzzle fizzy drinks, like Cola and Sprite, are more likely to suffer a host of heart and dental problems, compared to those who opt for water instead. But now an investigation has revealed the worst offenders: with some cans containing five times the amount of sugar and four times the calories than others. The unhealthiest of the bunch is Coca Cola Cherry, containing nearly three teaspoons of sugar and nearly the same calories as three chocolate chip cookies.

The first sign something was wrong came when Claire Turner, 43, tried to pass her daughter a croissant in the car. Ms Turner was sat in the front passenger seat as her husband Mark Turner, 49, drove the family during a weekend away in October last year. As she turned to pass the pastry over to 11-year-old Annabelle in the back seat, she felt a twinge in her right shoulder.

A Hampshire woman claims her teenage daughter has been left 'scarred for life'  after spilling nail glue purchased from cut-price online store Shein on her legs. Rebecca Clarke, 47, was horrified when she heard her daughter Jasmine 'screaming in pain' while applying a set of fake nails. The administrator said she had purchased a set of acrylic stick-on nails and quick-drying nail glue from Shein for her 13 year-old daughter to use.

After appearing on screens to promote her new book 'Bombshell' yesterday, social media erupted, branding her glow-up 'stunning' and 'bl***y amazing'. A common theme was a sense of disbelief that the This Morning star was, in fact, a year shy of he 50th birthday. 'Did I just hear that right on @BritishBakeOff that @AlisonHammond is 49 - not a chance in hell, I thought she was in her late 30s, #mindblown', one user wrote on X. 'Can I just say, Alison, you look AMAZING,' commented another.

There have been growing concerns about misleading statements on tirzepatide, available as Mounjaro's, safety and risk of severe gastrointestinal injury. Now, the drug is attracting fresh attention after the death of a nurse in Scotland was today linked to the drug, recently approved on the NHS for weight loss. Susan McGowan (left), 58, from Lanarkshire, died from multiple organ failure, septic shock and pancreatitis after taking two low-dose injections of tirzepatide. Yet speaking to MailOnline, others have come forwards to share how the jab has wrecked their lives, with one patient no longer able to even consume sold foods. Meredith Hotchkiss (right), a nurse from Meridian, Idaho in the US, said she will now likely be tube fed for the rest of her life, after taking the injection for just a matter of weeks.

Remember, remember, the 5th of November. To most of us, this rhyme evokes visions of fireworks, bonfires and family fun. But it has been seared on my memory for an entirely different reason. It was on that day that I was diagnosed with a brain tumour, but the signs that something was wrong had been building over months. Left: Harry Howard in hospital. Top right: On his 18th birthday with dad John, mum Helen and brother Tom. Bottom right: Graduation day. Inset: Having fun as a seven-year-old.

Rates of the winter vomiting bug, which can also cause diarrhoea, are up almost a fifth in just a fortnight, figures show. It means cases for this time of year in England and Wales are more than double the levels seen pre-Covid. Health chiefs blamed the rise on the recent spell of cold weather and warned people not to work for at least 48 hours after symptoms end. Experts also said a variant dubbed 'Kawasaki', first spotted in Japan, now accounts for almost 70 per cent of all cases.

The clade 1b mutation, which experts have called 'the most dangerous one so far' kills one in ten of those infected and is believed to be behind a wave of miscarriages. It takes the total number of confirmed cases now in Britain to four. All are household contacts of the first case. Officials don't yet know how the unidentified first patient became infected with the strain - though skin-to-skin contact is suspected. They had travelled back to the UK from a holiday in Africa on an overnight flight on October 21 before developing symptoms a day later. The latest patient is under specialist care at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London.

Horrific details have emerged from a London-based beauty parlour performing botched liposuction that's said to have left several women 'injured and disfigured'. One woman is reported to have been hospitalised after the instrument used during the procedure 'hit' one of her internal organs. Another former client recalled noticing 'blood splattered up the walls' when she visited the premises, as well as 'swabs lying around that still had blood from the previous person'. Campaigners have warned these shocking findings expose an alarming loophole in UK law that they've long highlighted, which enables cowboy beauticians to perform surgery without medical qualifications.

A 48 year-old stonemason told he has weeks to live after developing an incurable lung disease linked to kitchen worktops is taking legal action against his former employers. Father-of-three Marek Marzec, who has lung disease silicosis, says the dust he inhaled while cutting trendy quartz kitchen worktops has left him 'unable to breathe' and 'in terrible pain'. Mr Marzec, who is too ill to undergo a life-saving lung transplant, has accused the stone manufacturers where he worked for a decade of using 'unsafe' working conditions.

Twenty years ago, just 16 per cent of adults in the UK had a tattoo. Today, it's nearer 30 per cent as body art, once largely the preserve of sailors, bikers and rock stars, has become mainstream. Now everyone, from England football legend David Beckham to Princess Eugenie, has embraced inked skin. But while the vast majority of those with tattoos experience few - if any - significant side-effects, they are by no means risk-free. Well-documented adverse reactions range from photosensitivity (where tattooed skin becomes more sensitive to sunlight, causing itching, swelling and a stinging sensation) to allergic reactions.

Cases of the contagious infection dubbed a 'potential public health threat' have already been reported in New York. Known medically as trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII (TMVII), the rare type of ringworm has previously been spotted across Southeast Asia and Europe, with doctors in France recording 13 cases nationwide in 2023 alone. But experts said the condition, which often causes painful rashes across the genitals, thighs and buttocks, was 'very likely' to have 'already spread' undetected in Britain. Lab tests to confirm cases of the 'slow growing bug' can take up to three weeks for results to come back, they warned.