A teenager has died after doctors misdiagnosed her cancer suggesting her weight loss was due to her desire to be a “stick insect” like most teenage girls.
May 292015
Feb 152015
Drinking milk may not protect our bones from fractures – and could even increase a person’s risk of dying from heart disease, according to a major new study in Sweden.
Feb 132015
Common sleeping tablets and anxiety drugs taken by millions of patients has been linked to a 50 per cent increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers have found. Taking the drugs known as benzodiazepines, which include diazepam and lorazepam, for three months or more was linked with a greater chance of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease […]
Feb 102015
Professor Iain Bloom from Douglas Gordon University in Aberdeen says it was wrong to vilify fatty foods and substitute it with carbohydrates, and this may have triggered the obesity epidemic
Feb 102015
New research published in the BMJ suggests that for positional skull deformation in infants – flattening of the skull as a result of laying in the same position for long periods – wearing a corrective helmet does not improve the condition.