Only 12% of Britons meet 'five a day' target for fruit and veg - The Guardian 15th September 2008
Most Britons are not eating the daily recommended amount of fruit or vegetables, and most adults are not eating enough fibre, research has found.
The Department of Health advises that people should eat at least five portions of fruit or vegetables a day to help reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease and other chronic conditions. But a study by the marketing group TNS found that only 12% of the population are adhering to the target, and another 12% eat no fruit and veg at all.The question: How can I avoid Sad? - The Guardian 15th September 2008
As summer, for all it was, shifts into autumn and days get shorter and darker, around two million Britons will begin to wish they could pull the duvet over their heads until spring. As sufferers of seasonal affective disorder, or Sad, they will typically feel lethargic, depressed and have cravings for carbohydrate foods, with symptoms intensifying between December and February.
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Scotland’s poor health ‘caused by a lack of sunshine'- The Times 15th September 2008
A national campaign to persuade every Scot to take daily supplements of vitamin D is needed if the country’s appalling health record is to be reversed, leading scientists believe.
A report, published this week, links poor weather to the lack of the “sunshine vitamin” in Scotland, and urges the Scottish government to launch a nationwide vitamin D programme to lower the incidence of devastating illnesses, such as heart disease, cancer and multiple sclerosis.Thousands ‘denied best thinning bones treatment’- The Times 15th September 2008
Thousands of women with thinning bones are being denied the best available therapies because of “unethical and shortsighted” NHS rationing, senior osteoporosis specialists say today.
Guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) are unfairly restricting access to osteoporosis drugs that can prevent pain, disability and even death, leading doctors and charity executives say.Parents will be able to check police records if they fear someone they know maybe be a paedophile, the government has said, in a version of the controversial 'Sarah's Law'.
Average NHS dentist earns six-figure salary - The Sunday Telegraph 14th September 2008
The average Health Service dentist received a 13 per cent pay rise last year, official figures will show this week.
For Barbara Moss, the photographs of this summer's camping trip to France will be particularly special.Two years ago, she was diagnosed with bowel cancer and given less than five months to live. After chemotherapy failed to slow the disease's progress, doctors said that her only hope was a drug called bevacizumab, marketed as Avastin, which her local NHS refused to fund.
Rationed kidney cancer drugs can lengthen survival- The Telegraph 13th September 2008
Two cancer drugs which were controversially rejected by the NHS's rationing body can triple patients' length of survival, new research has shown.
Quick fix Botox has long-term effects- The Telegraph 13th Spetember 2008
Botox, the 'quick fix' injection used to reduce wrinkles, can have long-term effects on the shape of users' faces, research has found.
My sex attack nightmare at the hands of the hair doctor - Daily Mail 15th September 2008
A mother has relived her five-hour ordeal with a sleazy hair doctor who was found guilty this week of massaging women's breasts - 10 years after her attack.
Leading hair consultant Praminder Mankoo told his victims they needed stress relieving massages to help with their scalp problems but instead groped their breasts under the guise of 'treatment'.Parents will from today be able to ask police whether anyone who has access to their child is a convicted paedophile or is even suspected of abusing children.
Police will pass on details of any relevant criminal convictions and may include ‘soft intelligence’ detailing unproven complaints of abuse, even where there was no finding of guilt.Heart care failings 'across UK' - BBC Health News 14th September 2008
Every cardiac rehabilitation service in the UK is understaffed, the British Heart Foundation has warned.
The programmes are reckoned to boost five-year survival rates by about 26% by giving medical and lifestyle advice.NHS 'has more to do over stroke' - BBC Health News 14th September 2008
Stroke services are improving, but there are still some gaps in care, an audit of hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has shown.
The Royal College of Physicians quizzed 224 hospitals about their services.NHS art therapy for schizophrenia - BBC Health News 14th September 2008
Government advisers are expected to recommend art therapy on the NHS for people with schizophrenia.\n\nThe National Institute of Clinical and Health Excellence (NICE) will promote use of programmes offering music, art and dance therapy for the first time.
UK Health News 09/15/2008
Monday 15 September 2008
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