All babies are to be vaccinated against a highly infectious bug that is one of the most common causes of diarrhoea in children. From September next...
Ok, let me first make it clear that I am in no way urging you to try these steps at home. Hair loss is one of the things we most commonly associate with cancer and chemotherapy, so I decided to make light of my experience and share with you the unfortunate steps of my road to bald-dom.
Martha, 39, looked petite and serene and but appeared to be nursing a very heavy cold. In truth, she could easily have pulled out of the event, crying off sick, but did not want to let the charity down.
NHS Direct is to close most of its call centres with the loss of hundreds of nursing and other jobs, union leaders said on Friday. Unison said 24 o...
A Cardiff student and her friends have stripped off in a naked calendar to raise money for a brain tumour charity after her mother was diagnosed with ...
It's Movember and men across the world are hoping to change the face of men's health by growing moustaches and raising awareness for prostate and test...
When it comes to food, some people think I'm fussy - well, I guess you could call it that - I prefer self-loving.
A habit is an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary. We all love to aspire to practicing good habits, yet it is much easier to recognize and identify with the bad ones.
Due to the need to improve the evidence base for participatory arts and health courses, people on the waiting list were invited to take part in an evaluation of Open Arts.
Movember is well and truly underway. Men across Britain are sprouting moustaches in order to raise funds (and awareness) for men’s health, specif...
The Prime Minister is calling on a million members of the public to provide support for dementia sufferers. David Cameron has set out his ambitious...
I hear quite a lot of people say they would like to reduce or cut out carbohydrate from their diet or they are starting one of those carb-free fad diets to lose weight. When I ask why, the common answer is that carbs are not good for you because they make you fat.
The seventh of November is National Stress Awareness Day. For 14 years, the day has aimed to increase public understanding of a condition that affects thousands of people and businesses across the UK, and yet the issue is still woefully neglected by a worrying number of organisations.
It takes every ounce of strength in my body not to vomit. I hum and sing to myself as I try to get through the constant waves of nausea and the pounding in my head. The feeling of not knowing what's next is the worst, and I keep a bucket by my bed lest I puke in the night.
The state government considers homes built after 1995 on public land illegal and thus feels no obligation to provide access to basic rights - housing, water or sanitation. Every few months bulldozers show up to remind them that they shouldn't be there. That's the story of a million people in Bombay. Where being poor is a crime.
A rat caused around 40 operations to be cancelled at a hospital after it was found in an operating theatre. Pest controllers were called into King'...
I do not want to judge anyone's choices for how they choose to use their own body, but when those choices are having a negative impact on their health and on their children, that seems to be the line where I'm willing to say that something is wrong.
Whilst some people may need to avoid or restrict coffee, for the rest of us, the bulk of research shows that coffee is more healthful than harmful, and here are five reasons why.
Researchers in Norway claim they have found new evidence to support their theory that cannabis use causes temporary 'cognitive breakdown' in non-psych...
Families are to get a legal right to be consulted before patients are put on the "death pathway", it has been revealed. Health Secretary Jeremy Hun...
Since my diagnosis I have lost both my breasts, and struggled with the devastating side effects of heavy chemo and radiotherapy - NOTHING will ever be as effective as chemotherapy when it comes to hair removal!
Successes and shortcomings of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are taking centre-stage in London this week.
I'll just come straight out with it: I want them gone. I don't mean I want to be flat-chested forever - I want a full reconstruction, but I want rid of my natural breasts and the risk of getting cancer again.
Dr. Eben Alexander - who has worked at some of the most prestigious US medical institutions - has spoken of the need for a different "picture of reality" after he nearly died during a seven-day coma. His book "Proof of Heaven" has just been published.
For too long, people have been told that harm reduction - offering help of any kind - is in fact bad for the problem substance user. This one preachy bit of tripe is something our society can do without. Then, finally, more and more honest and practical decisions will be made.
