overweight adults will be put on ‘soup and shakes’ diet
Diabetes is estimated to cost the NHS £10 billion a year, while almost one in 20 prescriptions written by GPs...
Month: August 2020
Processed food ages your body and increases risk of a host of diseases
Processed food ages the body as well as increasing the risk of a host of diseases, Spanish research suggests. The...
Family of brain-damaged boy sue NHS after meningitis was ‘dismissed as ear infection’
His parents Nicholas and Sophie are now suing the NHS for nearly a quarter of a million pounds, claiming that...
Meals on wheels service dying out as councils slash spending
The slow death of meals on wheels has been revealed, as figures show half of councils no longer provide the...
‘Sitting for just 90 minutes could be fatal’
Stanley Greening relives his son’s last words over and over in his head on a daily basis, "What’s happening to...
Wait to 2022 to see an NHS consultant, patients told
“As a patient with ongoing health issues I am now deemed sufficiently well enough (despite being decidedly unwell) to have...
Government coronavirus information adverts wrongly disabled by Facebook across its platforms
The ad began running on July 20 and according to Facebook Ads Library, a database of adverts running on Facebook,...
Why British women desperately need earlier breast cancer screening
A recent study suggested that screening women from 40 has the potential to save lives. A group at Queen Mary...
Children seeking help with suicidal thoughts and self-harming reached a peak during lockdown
Responding to the data, Andrew Fellowes, NSPCC public affairs manager said: “There is no doubt that the coronavirus pandemic has...
NHS shutdown has led to nearly 300,000 waiting in pain for crucial hip and knee operations
But Professor Turner warned there has also been an invisible cost in terms of human misery. “On top of that...
GPs are ‘shutting out’ patients which could lead to illnesses going untreated
Coronavirus deaths peaked between 9 and 13 April in all seven NHS England regions, at a time when London was...
Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman dies at 43 after cancer battle
Embraced by global audiences, Black Panther became the second highest grossing movie at box offices worldwide in 2018, heralded for its...
How to make sure children are mentally prepared for the big return to school
Naomi Empowers, 33, is mother to Rhianne, 8, and Aaron, 6. They go to an independent school in west London My...
Only two areas recorded more than 20 coronavirus deaths in July, according to ONS figures
In comparison, in May 224 local authorities had more than 20 deaths (16 in Wales, 208 in England) and in...
No healthy child has died from coronavirus in the UK
No healthy child has died from coronavirus in the UK, the biggest study into the condition suggests, as researchers say...
Protecting NHS from Covid has created timebomb backlog for cancer treatment, medics fear
Cancer Research UK estimates that lack of access to services in recent months, and the number of patients who kept...
NHS trust faces action over spread of virus in its hospitals
An NHS trust has become the subject of new measures over the high number of people contracting coronavirus in its...
NHS hospitals ‘like the Mary Celeste’, say surgeons despite record waiting times for operations
NHS surgeons are only working at around 50 per cent capacity, the president of their Royal College has revealed, despite...
UK children lead least satisfied lives in Europe due to ‘fear of failure’, survey suggests
Richard Crellin, the charity’s policy manager, added: "As a society, we put significant amounts of pressure on our children to...
Why the trend for building houses with small gardens could be damaging our health
In 1984, Roger Ulrich published a short paper showing that patients recovering from surgery got better more quickly if they...
Heart attacks detected and treated fell by 40 per cent during Covid pandemic
The number of heart attacks detected and treated fell by 40 per cent during the Covid-19 pandemic, new research suggests. ...
Following UK diet advice ‘increases life expectancy and reduces carbon emissions’
People who follow a Government guide that encourages a balanced diet are less likely to die prematurely, a new study...
Coronavirus victims will be paid to go into self-isolation
One senior Government source said: “Public health teams working in local lockdown areas have been reporting a lot of cases...
Naps should be kept to under an hour, scientists warn
Taking naps of longer than one hour can cause heart disease - and may even trigger an early death, research...
Scotland’s flagship children’s hospital delayed after ‘astonishing’ spreadsheet error went unnoticed
But Donald Cameron, the Scottish Tories' Shadow Health Secretary, said: "To now discover that this delay was down to a...
It’s time to recognise the debt we owe to blighted Covid generation
This needs to go beyond targeted initiatives to prevent mass youth unemployment. Rishi Sunak’s Kickstart Scheme, which will pay the...
Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding reveals she has breast cancer which has spread throughout her body
Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding has revealed she has advanced-stage breast cancer which has spread to other parts of her body....
