All news on the topic: Prescriptions

Emelia Jones had headaches for months that were so severe she struggled to function and would be bedbound whenever they struck, and she had no idea what was wrong until she went to the optician

it isn’t just chain locations that have been forced to shut their doors in recent years. The news comes as a part of a worrying trend of community pharmacy closures

Karen McIntee and her sister Isy Macleod flew to Gran Canaria for what they hoped would be a relaxing holiday - but had only been on the sun-drenched island for a few days when Karen began feeling unwell

Dad-of-three Simon O’Brien, 48, discovered he had kidney cancer just months after his pet pooch Bella, an eight-year-old Labrador, was diagnosed with the same disease

Jaymeleigh McCarroll, husband Will and their son Walker, six, along with another family flew from Manchester to Barcelona with Ryanair but their luggage was never loaded onto the plane

Ministers will hold a two-year pilot costing £40million that is hoped will reduce pressure on the health service by helping people to shed pounds - it comes after NICE approved the drug's use earlier this year

The new Alzheimers drug is the first preventative treatment for the disease - previous medications have only tackled symptoms of dementia, and has been hailed as ground-breaking

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Pharmacist Farhan Musaji ploughed into schoolgirl Layla Shepard in October 2021 with his Audi in Deane, Greater Manchester

A heartbroken mother is demanding an inquiry into an explosion in overdoses of deaths at the notorious Queens Park Hotel in Glasgow, where three people died of suspected overdoses in the past month

The Mirror went to South Africa to see the work being done to fight tuberculosis - which has now overtaken Covid as the world's most deadly infectious disease

In a tragic incident in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a 12-year-old girl allegedly fatally stabbed her 9-year-old brother - now her mum has shared the red flags she saw just two weeks prior

An American judge will hear an appeal from a conservative think tank to unseal Prince Harry's immigration records

Miriam Stoppard says that opioids such as morphine and fentanyl are the gold standard for short-term pain relief but they’re too addictive for long-term use - now, a new Botox can change everything

The EMIS software, which is used in approximately half of GP surgeries, primary care facilities, dentists and community pharmacies in England, had outages for most of Friday

Joyce Wilton stopped taking her heart medication last summer to try to shorten her suffering and by January was barely able to eat. She used her last words to call for assisted dying to be legalised

The licensing authority currently lists 118 conditions that must be reported and failure to do so could mean a £1,000 fine, or possible prosecution if an accident occurs

The 23-year-old from Utah, US, was left with burn-like welts over 30 per cent of her body after taking anxiety meds. She was diagnosed with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

David, 75, said Janice, his wife of 52 years, was asking him every day for six weeks to end her life and he refused to do so until one day he agreed in the hope it would calm her

Pharmacist Abbas Kanani has highlighted five tastes in your mouth that crop up 'suddenly' could signal underlying health problems, including diabetes

The Salford landlord’s battle with substance abuse meant he hadn’t visited a dentist in five years – leaving him with teeth that made him feel “ugly” and “incredibly self-conscious"

Admin manager Kirsty Heron, 24, from Swinton, has been left in excruciating pain and unable to enjoy some of the finer things in life after being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis

Leonie Reynolds, from Chelmsford, says she has been asking doctors for a breast reduction since the age of 12 due to terrible back pain, but was turned down over her BMI

Hannah Deacon helped change the law when she secured cannabis prescription for her severely ill son Alfie Dingley. But now, a "cowboy" CBD firm has been using her name to flog its product

Routine change in blood pressure medication led to demand for extra payment and accusation of price-gouging

The panel of Federal Health Advisers (FDA) voted unanimously in favour of drugmaker Perrigo’s request to sell its once-a-day medication over the counter