Next week’s strike by junior doctors in England will go ahead as talks with the government have failed to reach a solution – but union leaders say medics will provide emergency cover. read more >>> Source : BBC
Journalists who’ve covered extreme violence in Kenya years ago still may experience related depression and anxiety, and they have little formal support in coping with the trauma, a new study finds. Dr. Anthony Feinstein, a University of Toronto psychiatry professor, noted that traumatic events of almost a decade ago continue to affect journalists. “It’s the […]
WHEN Katie Gent looks back on her childhood she feels that she was cheated out of many of the experiences most normal teenagers take for granted as they are growing up. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
UK scientists win permission to genetically modify human embryos for the first time. read more >>> Source : BBC
The World Health Organization on Monday is convening a meeting in Geneva to determine whether a global health emergency should be declared for the Zika virus. WHO is responding in a more pro-active manner to the relatively minor mosquito-borne virus in contrast to its slow response to the lethal 2013 outbreak of Ebola in West […]
Doctors, public health experts and women’s rights organizations are concerned that the strongly suspected link between the Zika virus and microcephaly, a fetal deformity resulting in a shrunken head and a damaged brain, will cause women in the Americas to seek illegal abortions. Some countries in Latin America have opted to advise women to delay […]
The World Health Organization is holding an emergency meeting in Geneva today to decide whether to declare the Zika outbreak an international public health emergency. read more >>> Source : BBC
Patients taking the controversial heart drug, statins, have a almost double the risk of diabetes and a up to a twofold risk of serious diabetic complications, a shock study has found. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
An emergency meeting of the World Health Organization will take place later to discuss the unprecedented Zika outbreak and whether to declare a global emergency. read more >>> Source : BBC
There are growing concerns that the Zika virus may become a threat to global health, as Ebola did in 2014 and 2015. The mosquito-borne virus is spreading rapidly through the Americas, and travelers have brought individual cases to other continents. Zika is especially dangerous to pregnant women because it may cause severe birth defects. VOA’s […]
El Salvador works to contain the spread of the virus read more >>> Source : BBC
Brazil’s health ministry promised Thursday to hire nearly 2,500 medical staff in Rio de Janeiro state as it scrambles to help local authorities deal with a funding crisis that has left hospitals understaffed and ill equipped. Eight months before the Olympics are due to unfold in Rio, fallout from what is turning into the country’s […]
Prime Minister David Cameron says he does not want to rule out introducing a sugar tax in order to tackle Britain’s “obesity crisis”. read more >>> Source : BBC
Going into President Barack Obama’s last year in office, progress has stalled on reducing the number of uninsured Americans under his signature health care law, according to a major survey out Thursday. The share of U.S. adults without health insurance was 11.9 percent in the last three months of 2015, essentially unchanged from the start […]
Americans can now eat eggs guilt free, according to new nutritional recommendations issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services. In the first guidelines issued since 2011 the government also gave the green light to other high cholesterol foods, and drinking up to five cups of coffee a […]
INFANT colic is one of the most distressing yet common conditions a baby can suffer with – but there is an answer to the problem. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
Victoria Derbyshire presenter Joanna Gosling speaks to a panel of guests about the issue of loneliness. read more >>> Source : BBC
More than 10,000 vacancies for nursing posts in London were unfilled in 2015, new figures from the Royal College of Nursing show. read more >>> Source : BBC
The term “baby brain” is often used by new mums when they forget things or seem a little out of sync but is it actually a condition, or simply a combination of sleep deprivation and changing hormones? read more >>> Source : BBC
Are low-calorie beverages really a healthier choice? read more >>> Source : BBC
A DIET which includes a daily glass of wine that could halve the risk of Alzheimer’s has been hailed as the easiest to follow. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
The goal of eradicating polio worldwide is within sight. But public health officials must make sure that vaccines administered after that point cannot cause a recurrence of the disease. Researchers in Britain have come up with a safe strain that would prevent polio reinfection. Polio vaccines are stockpiled for use into the foreseeable future to […]
A&E departments across Wales are facing “unprecedented demands”, prompting health boards to urge the public to only attend if necessary. read more >>> Source : BBC
IN the world of anti-ageing there is always something new to look forward to and this year is no different. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
GP surgeries are at “breaking point” and many have stopped taking new patients or have applied to do so, it is claimed. read more >>> Source : BBC
Should saturated fat make a welcome return to our tables? read more >>> Source : BBC
A TEN year study of 300,000 heart attack patients has found rapid rates in the uptake of a treatment which improves a patient’s chances of survival. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia are most at risk from bat viruses jumping to humans and causing new diseases that could lead to deadly outbreaks, scientists warned Tuesday. Approximately 60 to 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases are so-called “zoonotic events” — where animal diseases jump into people — and bats in particular are […]
While it’s widely known that being laid off from a job can lead some people to drink more alcohol, a new study shows that during the so-called Great Recession in the U.S. from 2007 to 2009, even those who kept their jobs drank more. Writing in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, researchers from the […]
Researchers have found what may be a permanent cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disabling and eventually fatal genetic condition that affects approximately one in 5,000 boys worldwide. The disease, also called DMD, causes the body to make a defective copy of a skeletal protein called dystrophin that holds muscles together. That defective protein causes […]
DESPITE being in the midst of an obesity crisis some 40 per cent of UK adults don’t know obesity increases risk of cancer. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
The first NHS hospital to be privately run could be merged with another cash-strapped trust to save money, an MP claims. read more >>> Source : BBC
POPULAR coffee makers have the potential to be FULL of harmful bacteria, warns recent research. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
Forty-five new drugs were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2015, the most since 1996 and four more than 2014. According to the Associated Press, the increase was spurred largely by drugs for rare and hard-to-treat diseases. Approval for these kinds of drugs is often streamlined. A high number of drug approvals […]
China will not require prospective parents to obtain approval to have two children under the new “two-child policy”, in what appears to be a further relaxation of reproductive controls in the world’s most populous country. A document released by the central government and ruling Communist Party on Tuesday said families would be able to “independently […]
A NEW mum was just minutes from DEATH after medics failed to notice a common, but lethal, infection that almost resulted in amputation. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
SCIENTISTS have discovered social isolation can greatly DECREASE life expectancy. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
The strikes by junior doctors in England could be “very damaging” for patients, the health secretary says. read more >>> Source : BBC
explainer looking at why low fat isn’t the best way to lose weight read more >>> Source : BBC
A woman who has gradually been losing her sight for years has been describing the joys of being able to see again after being fitted with a bionic eye. read more >>> Source : BBC
Does it really matter how much fat we eat? read more >>> Source : BBC
THE amount of people living with diabetes in the UK has reached record heights and could place an incredible strain on NHS, reveals shocking research. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
The strikes by junior doctors over the contract dispute are back on after talks with the government broke down. read more >>> Source : BBC
MEN have “poor knowledge” about the threat heart disease poses to a healthy sex life, reveals research. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
Darius McCollum’s addiction isn’t for booze and pills — it’s for buses and trains. The New York transit impostor who first commandeered a train at age 15 has been arrested 30 times over the years for transit-related crimes. Most recently, he was nabbed in November behind the wheel of a Greyhound bus that officials say […]