Nine astronauts were scanned before heading to the ISS and upon return, scientists take a second scan to compare how their spines have been affected while spending six months in space.
A pensioner who tried to run over his next door neighbour but missed and mowed down his own wife has been jailed. Michael Goodenough, 73, reversed his white Mercedes at next door neighbour Michelle Palmer but accidentally knocked down wife Lynda, 72, breaking her spine. She was rushed to hospital following the incident in July 2019 … Read more
This ‘game-changing’ memory foam pillow that supports your neck AND encourages the natural alignment of your spine is on sale for under £30 By Emily Knott For Mailonline Published: 12:22 BST, 6 April 2021 | Updated: 12:23 BST, 6 April 2021 Products featured in this Mail Best article are independently selected by our shopping writers. … Read more
An 18-year-old who was diagnosed with a deep curve in her spine at the age of 12 has revealed how she’s undergone a nine-hour operation to straighten it – and says she can’t wait to hit the dancefloor. Student Macey Brooks, from Wigan, spent much of her teenage years keeping her scoliosis – abnormal curvature … Read more
An 18-year-old who was diagnosed with a deep curve in her spine at the age of 12 has revealed how she’s undergone a nine-hour operation to straighten it – and says she can’t wait to hit the dancefloor. Student Macey Brooks, from Wigan, spent much of her teenage years keeping her scoliosis – abnormal curvature … Read more
In August 2020, he was rushed to hospital to undergo six hours of surgery after an electric bike accident at his Malibu home. And now, six months on, Simon Cowell, 61, has spoken out about breaking his back for the first time since the shock incident, revealing: ‘I nearly smashed my spine to pieces!’ The X Factor … Read more
Even by the normal standards of Britain’s Got Talent – a show that unashamedly tugs on viewers’ heartstrings – it was a particularly moving story. Julia Carlile, just 15, and her dance troupe MerseyGirls made it to the final in 2017. Then it emerged that despite her remarkable acrobatic talents, Julia was struggling with an … Read more
‘I’d been feeling stressed and had not been sleeping much,’ recalls Dasha, who was 19 at the time. ‘I thought it was conjunctivitis’ Student Dasha Karzunina assumed at first that the red, painful eye she had developed while revising for her university exams was a simple infection. ‘I’d been feeling stressed and had not been … Read more
A mum who broke her spine on holiday has claimed she was told she would go to jail if she could not pay for £2,000 worth of medical treatment. Joanne Bishop, 34, from Measham, flew out to Antalya in Turkey on October 15 with her 12-year-old son and a friend, for what they hoped would be a much needed … Read more
When is Sir Keir Starmer going to grow a pair? ‘The shine is starting to come off,’ a Shadow Minister complains. ‘It’s all very well showing you’re competent. But there are times when you need to roll up your sleeves and attack.’ Labour’s leader is not attacking, but pirouetting. On the Rule of Six. On … Read more