Demi Lovato admits rapper DMX’s overdose gives her ‘survivor’s guilt’ after her own near-fatal OD

Demi Lovato has admitted DMX’s  drugs overdose, which has left him fighting for his life, gives her ‘survivor’s guilt’. The singer, 28, overdosed on heroin and fentanyl in 2018, and has spent the last two years getting clean. 50-year-old rapper DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, is on life support at the White Plains … Read more

One in three Covid survivors struck down anxiety, depression or other mental health issue

One in three Covid survivors are diagnosed with anxiety, depression or other mental health issues within six months of recovering from the virus, major study finds Oxford researchers leafed through more than 200,000 Covid patient records Dementia and strokes were more likely in those who had caught the virus They said the virus wasn’t an … Read more

Leslie Mann helps survivors of a plane crash as she films the new Amazon series The Power

Leslie Mann was seen helping plane crash survivors on Sunday as she filmed scenes for the upcoming Amazon series, The Power, in East London.  The San Francisco native, 49, put her acting skills to good use as a budding politician, Margot Cleary-Lopez, on the UK set which was transformed to depict Seattle.  While sporting a plum-coloured … Read more

Covid survivors have three times the antibody response to a single dose of the vaccine, study finds

Coronavirus survivors who get vaccinated respond up to seven times better to it than those who haven’t had the virus, a study has found. Researchers found that antibody levels were three times higher in people who had the virus and then one dose of Pfizer‘s jab, compared to someone who had never been infected but … Read more

One in ten coronavirus survivors suffer ‘long Covid’ symptoms three months after infection

One in ten coronavirus survivors suffer ‘long Covid’ symptoms such as fatigue three months after beating the illness, government-funded review claims National Institute for Health Research reviewed more than 300 scientific papers Analysis found 10% of all survivors suffer lingering symptoms three months later Most common issue was fatigue, followed by breathlessness and ‘brain fog’ … Read more

Tales of terror from the Titanic: The horrific 1912 tragedy from the eyes of 10 survivors

At just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg while travelling on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Within three hours, the ‘unsinkable’ ship had slipped beneath the waves of the freezing Atlantic Ocean, killing more than 1,500 people. At its launch, the luxurious Titanic was the largest … Read more

Revenge of the Sussex survivors’ club: The inside story of how a fairytale turned into a nightmare

It is the one royal group that no one wants to join. Referred to only half-jokingly as the ‘Sussex Survivors’ Club’, its membership is sadly rising. But its select band of members have one thing in common: all have worked for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and lived to tell the tale. Joking aside, … Read more

One dose of Pfizer’s or Moderna’s vaccines could give COVID-19 survivors just much protection

One coronavirus vaccine dose may protect COVID-19 survivors as much as two doses given to people who have never had the infection, a new study suggests.   Researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill compared antibody levels among two groups of patients given either the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or the Moderna vaccine. People previously ill with … Read more

COVID-19 antibodies appear to protect survivors from getting reinfected for at least three months

New evidence suggests that COVID-19 survivors who test positive for antibodies appear to be protected from reinfection for at least a few months. Researchers found that having coronavirus antibodies put people at a 10-fold lower risk of infection compared to those who tested negative for antibodies.  What’s more, this protection lasted for at least 90 … Read more

COVID-19 survivors may only need one vaccine dose, study finds

Survivors of COVID-19 may only need one dose of the vaccine to be fully protected, a new study suggests. Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle found that, in blood samples of people previously infected with the coronavirus, a single shot of the inoculation boosted antibodies and other immune system cells by … Read more