Health
Police investigating deaths of 13 residents at 9 care homes interview third woman for possible manslaughter
A total of nine homes - all run by Sussex Health Care - are being investigated by police following serious concerns over the safety of patients.
Mother claims HPV cancer vaccine left daughter reliant on wheelchair and virtually housebound.
Caran Dynan, 37, says her daughter Amy, 19, began suffering health problems a week after having the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine at school.
Will pharmaceutical consulting in Britain be blocked by Brexit?
Brexit has left no part of the British economy untouched, and with a year to go before the tumultuous departure from the European Union, those in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors are among those who are worried. And if a so-called hard Brexit is going to strike anyone, it may well be these two critical industries that are so important for the health of the economy and the nation. For starters, the Brexodus is already well under way and the...
Eating cheese more than three times a week protects middle aged men against brittle bone disease
Men who munch lots of dairy had stronger spines and hips but women did not get the same protection
Canned food warning: Tinned food such as tuna can have 100 times more zinc than is safe
Mineral leaches into food and then lodges in people's digestive system altering the body's ability to absorb nutrients
Could eating sugar help you lose weight?
Eating sugar could help you loose weight according to new research. Although scientists have known since 2013 that a version of the gene FGF21 makes us consume more carbohydrates, now, for the first time, a group of researchers is showing that, despite the effect it has on diet, this gene variant actually decreases fat in the body. Timothy Frayling, a molecular geneticist at the University of Exeter Medical School in the UK and the study’s first author, said: “We were...
Divorce or death in family can speed up the ageing of men’s brains
Fateful life events ages the brain by four months
Simple blood test detects Alzheimer’s years before symptoms start
It distinguishes between toxic and healthy forms of a protein that collects in clumps in dementia patients - causing confusion and memory loss
‘Appalling childhood tooth extraction statistics illustrate need for urgent action in England’, charity declares
Leading health charity, the Oral Health Foundation, is calling for urgent action to address the continued increase in the number of children having their teeth extracted in hospitals throughout England. This call to action follows the release today of statistics from Public Health England (PHE) which show that a child in England has a rotten tooth removed in hospital every ten minutes, which is around 141 children a day. Speaking about these shocking numbers, Dr Nigel Carter OBE, CEO of...