Health
Michael Eavis and Jacob Rees-Mogg back help young cancer patient raise over £100,000 in 2 days for treatment
Georgia Bryant, 28, was diagnosed with leukaemia and needs life-saving treatment
Eating fish and chips could prevent the onset of Parkinson’s disease
Scientists say consuming parvalbumim - a protein found in several fish species including cod - can be a "simple way" to halt the degenerative brain disease.
In spite of all the evidence, suspicions about vaping remain
Despite being a common sight on streets across the world, confusion remains over the health dangers of electronic cigarettes. The latest State of Smoking survey – released in March this year – found that people in countries across the globe believe vaping to be more harmful than smoking traditional cigarettes. Even in developed countries such as the UK and France, at least 50 per cent of those asked believed electronic cigarettes were equally or more harmful than normal cigarettes. That...
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...