Health news

• UK accused of hypocrisy on overseas tobacco control

  27-01-2018 23:00
  Embassy relationships with companies such as BAT undermine anti-smoking policiesThe UK government is lobbying on behalf of UK-based tobacco giants operating overseas, despite spending millions of pounds trying to curb smoking rates abroad.Freedom of information requests reveal that the Foreign Office and the Department for International Trade have been championing the interests of British American Tobacco. This is despite the government being forced to draw up new guidelines for UK embassy staff
  
  Read more

• Clinic opens to help teens hooked on illegal pills bought online

  27-01-2018 23:00
  Self-medication is on the rise – and troubled users finally have a place to turnInside the UK’s first clinic dedicated to tackling the consequences of the spiralling use for medicines bought illegally on the internet, Dr Owen Bowden-Jones is outlining his plans.He is opening what is thought to be the country’s first facility aimed at people experiencing problems resulting from medication they have sourced online. The service launches on Monday amid growing concern about addicti
  
  Read more

• Dementia: Eight ways to prevent the neurodegenerative disease - including sleep

  27-01-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  DEMENTIA is one of the most threatening diseases for elderly people and can be a terrifying prospect for loved ones. Care homes work tirelessly to support those with a neurodegenerative disease, making the symptoms as manageable as possible. But what can be done to prevent the disease?
  
  Read more

• Saving the NHS means forcing us to change the way we lead our lives | Nick Cohen

  27-01-2018 19:30
  It’s not just Big Macs that would have to go: M&S, Waitrose, transport and sport must be rethought for the common goodIf you imagine a healthy future for Britain, or any other country that has put the hunger of millennia behind it, you see a kind of dictatorship. Not a tyranny, but a society that ruthlessly restricts free choice. It is a future that views the mass of people as base creatures jerked around by desires they cannot control. Expert authority must engineer their lives from a
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Troubled children at risk from mental health proposals, warn therapists

  27-01-2018 15:00
  Fears that green paper on better care in schools will take scarce resources away from young people with the most serious problemsYoung people with the most serious mental health problems will be harmed by flawed government plans to boost services in schools for troubled children, ministers are being warned.Under-18s who self-harm or are at risk of suicide are among those with complex conditions who could lose out on vital help because of proposals outlined in a recent green paper to tackle
  
  Read more

• Troubled children at risk from mental health green paper, warn therapists

  27-01-2018 15:00
  Fears that new plans for better care in schools will take scarce resources away from young people with the most serious problemsYoung people with the most serious mental health problems will be harmed by flawed government plans to boost services in schools for troubled children, ministers are being warned.Under-18s who self-harm or are at risk of suicide are among those with complex conditions who could lose out on vital help because of proposals outlined in a recent green paper to tackle t
  
  Read more

• Leo Varadkar to campaign to liberalise Irish abortion laws

  27-01-2018 11:50
  Taoiseach says he hopes to set date next week for referendum on repeal of 8th amendment
  Ireland’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has confirmed he will campaign for the liberalisation of Ireland’s anti-abortion laws in an upcoming referendum.
  The prime minister had faced criticism for appearing ambiguous about the referendum on abortion, particularly the suggestion that terminations in Irish hospitals should be allowed up to 12 weeks into the pregnancy.Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Nursing has been woefully managed. No wonder there's a crisis | Richard Vize

  27-01-2018 09:35
  From ditched bursaries to poor pay, the policies behind the NHS recruitment and retention crisis have been laid bare in a new report
  The health select committee’s report on the nursing workforce is a excoriating critique of the multiple errors in policy and practice that have created a recruitment and retention crisis. Indeed, it is difficult to identify a single aspect of nursing workforce management that is not being mishandled.The UK has relatively few nurses compared with many EU count
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• How to get rid of a chesty cough: Ditch medicine for this one ingredient hot drink remedy

  27-01-2018 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  DRY, tickly and mucus are just a few of the types of cough which circulate round this time of year. One of the hardest to contend with is the chesty cough. But while reaching for the medicine cabinet may seem like your first port of call, a doctor has recommended a simple hot drink as the solution.
  
  Read more

• Weight loss breakthrough - Diet plan to help you lose more than 2 stone in three months

  27-01-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  WEIGHT loss diets can feel like an ordeal, but a new surgery-free gastric balloon could help you shed about 14kg on average, after just three months.
  
  Read more

• Second-hand toys could harm children, scientists discover

  27-01-2018 01:53 via bbc.co.uk
  The plastic used in many second-hand toys may not meet current safety guidelines, a study finds.
  
  Read more

• The mothers killed by the FLU as the virus rages on

  27-01-2018 00:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Katherine Acton, 47, Karlie Slaven, 36, and Tanya Harmon, 37, are all mothers-of-two who died this week just days after being diagnosed with the virus, having nursed their kids through the illness.
  
  Read more

Follow @Health_UKnews on Twitter!