When you’re sick, you’ll often produce more phlegm, and might notice it’s thicker or a different colour: white, green, yellow or maybe even brown. What can this phlegm – also called mucus, snot, ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Poop irregularities may be more “regular” than you ...

Your body produces mucus naturally to protect your respiratory system, and under normal circumstances, this protective fluid remains clear and relatively thin. However, when mucus suddenly changes to ...

IBD, as it's commonly referred to, encompasses a group of chronic conditions causing inflammation in the digestive tract, believed to impact over half a million people throughout the UK. IBD ...

The NHS issued an alert for people experiencing four specific symptoms as they could signal a condition affecting more than ...

A spitting pot I consider as an essential part of the bed-room apparatus. That’s what French physician René Laennec wrote in 1821. Laennec, who invented the stethoscope, spent his days gazing at his ...

The NHS urged people to contact their GP for any ‘persistent’ symptoms ...