Health

By Dominika Piasecka Today's media reports on the National Osteoporosis Society's survey that showed a fifth of young people are avoiding or cutting out dairy have been exaggerated and misrepresented the issue. Many articles made it sound like cow's milk is the only source of calcium but The Vegan Society are keen to point out the many easily available vegan alternatives in a response that has just been published on their website. The National Osteoporosis Society contacted the charity wanting...

Twice weekly yoga classes help men undergoing prostate cancer treatment have better sex lives and be less tired, a new study found. Men who attended a 75 minute long yoga session twice a week during prostate cancer radiation treatment were less tired and had better sexual and urinary function than those who didn't. Scientists said yoga benefits the men because it strengthens the pelvic floor while the exercise improved their emotional and physical well-being more as treatment progressed. Over 40,000...

A community based therapeutic counselling service, Your Space, is working with groups and individuals to improve their mental health and resilience in East London. Based in Newham, one of the most deprived boroughs in the UK, Your Space provides vital services to vulnerable people to promote and facilitate better mental health, tackle isolation and loneliness and empower service users to regain confidence. A key offering is Walk and Talk, a weekly walking therapy group for any local community members in...

Of the five upcoming billion dollar industries unveiled by Syed Irfan Ajmal in Business.com at the start of the year - virtual reality, big data, online retail, IOT and the sharing economy - one seemed to mysteriously slip his mind - Sperm. The global sperm bank market is expected to reach a value of USD 4.96 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research. Although the market is largely confined to North America due to the large...

Whether you are in the remain or leave camp, I believe there’s one thing we all agree on - the stress of the referendum is still with very much with us. Today, in a historic moment, Teresa May invoked Article 50, beginning the process of Britain officially leaving the EU. Naturally, everyone is feeling apprehensive about the future and what trade deals we’ll secure with our continental neighbours. What’s more, engaging in endless political debates can be more aging than...

New data from mental health charity Mind gives an insight into the mental health of 15,000 employees participating in Mind’s first ever Workplace Wellbeing Index, a brand new benchmark of best policy and practice when it comes to staff mental health. Thirty organisations took part in the Index including Deloitte, HMRC, the Environment Agency, Jaguar Land Rover and PepsiCo. According to the survey, of those staff who had disclosed poor mental health at work (2,200 employees), just over half (53...

A 12-year-old girl has been left paralysed from the neck down after suffering an alleged reaction to the HPV vaccine. Tragic Mia Blesky has no feeling in her arms or legs and is unable to lift her head or do anything but blink, talk and sing. Video clips filmed days before she fell ill shows the talented youngster - who dreams of being a popstar - standing, clutching a microphone and belting out a tune. Harrowing videos show how her...

Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental condition experienced by more one in 100 people in the UK. Individuals with this condition experience persistent difficulties in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts and restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests and activities which may include stereotyped or repetitive motor movements; insistence on sameness; highly restricted and fixated interests, and hyper or hypo reactivity to sensory input (e.g. sound, smell, taste and touch). Despite extensive research, including numerous neuroimaging studies, we still...

Modern life really does kill after a remote tribe living deep in the Amazon were found to have the healthiest arteries ever studied. A new study estimates that an 80-year-old from the Tsimane has the same vascular age as an American in their mid-fifties. Heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose were also much lower, probably as a result of the tribe's lifestyle, according to the researchers. The indigenous Tsimane people, who live in the Bolivian Amazon, have the...