Health

Why stay inside doing DIY when you could be gardening your way to good health over this Bank Holiday weekend?

With constant images of stick-thin, size-zero models, tiny-waisted pop princesses and actresses is putting young girls’ health at risk and fuelling the rise in eating disorders, according to Professor Janet Treasure of the Eating Disorders Research Unit at Kings College London.

The Institute of Cancer Research has announced that a drug candidate, first identified during a research collaboration with UK biotechnology company Piramed Limited (Piramed), is in clinical development. The trials are currently underway in the UK at The Institute of Cancer Research, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and in the U.S.

It's World Asthma Day on May 6th; a time to bear in mind that four people in the UK die every day from the condition. Asthma affects 5.2 million people UK-wide, but a growing body of evidence is offering new hope - relief can be helped along by munching on fruit and vegetables.

It's not how much fat you eat, but how much of the different types of fat that's important, say Swedish researchers who recently discovered that eating monounsaturated and polyunsaturated may lead to a reduced risk of developing breast cancer in women over 50.

Who knows whether the 'ladette' culture is to blame, but the latest statistics show that drink and drug problems are affecting more women than ever. For instance the number of babies born to women who are addicted to drugs and alcohol has recently been shown to be on the increase.

Travellers are being advised to find out whether they’re at increased risk of suffering a Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) before embarking on long haul flights this summer.

In these days of radical body consciousness, just when you've heard it all – excessive dieting, bingeing and purging, exercise addiction to name but a few – another extreme method of achieving a low body weight rears its ugly head. In this case, the method is called chewing and spitting.

Any decision to keep cannabis as a class C drug was criticised today last week as ‘deeply regrettable’ by Unite/Mental Health Nurses Association. Unite/MHNA said that a reported decision by The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs that the drug should remain on the class C list ‘flies in the face of established medical facts and common sense’.

Half of Britons would not recognise the signs of a possible skin cancer, and a quarter never checks their skin for the disease, a shocking snapshot survey by the British Association of Dermatologists has revealed.