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How To Make Drinking Just A Tiny Bit Better For You
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Care cuts inevitable in ‘fragile and failing’ system
Further cuts to care services in England will be needed in the coming year, council chiefs are warning. Local authorities plan to spend £22.5bn in 2019-20 on services for older people and younger adults with disabilities. That represented a rise of £400m on last year but was not enough to keep up with demand and […]
E-Cigarette Makers Use Cartoon Characters To Attract Users, And It Works
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E-cigarettes: How safe are they?
San Francisco has become the first US city to ban sales of e-cigarettes. Yet in the UK they are used by the NHS to help smokers quit – so what is the truth about the safety of e-cigarettes? How do e-cigarettes work? They work by heating up a liquid that usually contains nicotine, propylene glycol […]
Why I Wrote The Rx That Helped My Cancer Patient Die
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San Francisco becomes first US city to ban e-cigarettes
San Francisco has become the first US city to ban sales of e-cigarettes until their health effects are clearer. Officials on Tuesday voted to ban stores selling the vaporisers and made it illegal for online retailers to deliver to addresses in the city. The Californian city is home to Juul Labs, the most popular e-cigarette […]
Prostate cancer: New urine test hope
An experimental new urine test can reveal if men with early prostate cancer will probably need aggressive therapy or can be left untreated but monitored, UK researchers say. Current PSA blood tests cannot do this, meaning many men experience unnecessary worry, investigations and treatment. The prostate urine risk (PUR) test looks for genetic markers to […]
The Best (And Worst) Underwear To Avoid Swamp Crotch This Summer
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MMR vaccination rates in slight fall among children in Scotland
The number of children in Scotland receiving the MMR vaccine by five years of age has fallen slightly but remains “very high”, official NHS figures show. By the end of March, the three-month figure was 96.6% – down from 97%. Uptake rates of one dose of MMR by the age of five have remained above […]
The Two Words No Person With A Disability Wants To Hear
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Twelve died in Essex Strep A outbreak
Twelve people died during an outbreak of a rare contagious bacterial strain, it has emerged. A total of 32 people have been infected across Essex with the invasive Group A streptococcal (iGAS) infection. The outbreak began in Braintree and cases have been found around Chelmsford and Maldon, the Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) report […]
Pret allergy death: Parents ‘delighted’ by ‘Natasha’s law’ plan
A law protecting allergy sufferers will be introduced following the death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse. The teenager died after an allergic reaction to a Pret A Manger baguette. Under ‘Natasha’s law’, food businesses will have to include full ingredients labelling on pre-packaged food. Natasha’s parents said “helping save other allergy sufferers and their families from the […]
Do you know the hygiene hot spots in your home?
People should be focusing on how to prevent harmful microbes from spreading in their homes rather than cleaning the bits that look “dirty”, a Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) report says. Washing hands, cloths and surfaces at the right time is the key to good hygiene – but one in four people think it […]
Child obesity drive ‘stalled by Brexit’
The drive to tackle child obesity has stalled with a raft of measures stuck in Brexit backlog, it is being claimed. A ban on energy drink sales to under-16s, clearer calorie labelling and a crackdown on junk food advertising were all promised by ministers when they launched the revamped obesity strategy. But a year on […]