In the past 15 years, lots of things have been done to marginalise smoking. Reducing branding on packaging, banning smoking inside… and it’s worked. Now, it looks like sugar intake is going to slowly be marginalised as well. As you may know, sugary drinks are already taxed. Now a leading think tank has even suggested…
GP closures across the UK have reached an all-time high and have affected an estimated half a million patients last year. An investigation by medical website Pulse found 138 doctors’ surgeries shut their doors in 2018 compared with 18 in 2013. GPs have said the under-resourcing and recruitment difficulties were the reason for surgeries being…
People who eat a large amount of heavily processed foods have a greater risk of poor health and early death according to major studies. Researchers in France and Spain sya the amount of processed food being eaten has increased massively. Ultra-processed foods is the way of classifying food by how much industrial processing it has…
On 29 December 2013, Schumacher was skiing with his 14-year-old son Mick, descending the Combe de Saulire below the Dent de Burgin above Méribel in the French Alps. While crossing an unsecured off-piste area between Piste Chamois and Piste Mauduit, he fell and hit his head on a rock, sustaining a serious head injury despite…
Millions of patients will be encouraged to use digital technology to assess how ill they are under a new initiative by the NHS. This new idea is an attempt to reduce the use of A&E and outpatient appointments. NHS will be embracing the change in advanced technology and people in Birmingham will be the first…
According to thinktank older people should receive free help to eat, wash and get dressed in a moved which would improve their health but need to be funded by a 2p tax rise. The proposal identifies the growing political consensus that personal care should become free for over 65s. If this is brought into action,…
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