Health

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.

People will no longer have to worry about missing a dentist or opticians appointment again, thanks to a new personal planner introduced today by Healthplan provider, HSA.

Back pain is an increasingly common problem that affects almost 80% of the population at some time in their lives and costs the NHS around £480m a year, making it the number two reason for long-term absence from work in the UK.

Health talk is hot news, with the Government’s latest initiative to give the over 40s a health ‘MOT’, and World Health Day upon us again.

Summer brings the promise of warm weather, holiday travel and the freedom of wearing fewer clothes and loving the sunny season. But what if you have varicose veins? Or suffer holiday tummy? Perhaps you are self-conscious about your bloated belly? Or are you one of those people prone to mozzie bites? Take heart, help is at hand from a variety of natural supplements.

On the day that all NHS hospitals should have completed a 'deep clean' in an effort by the Department of Health to tackle superbugs, new research shows that the British public lays the blame for MRSA squarely at the feet of hospital managers, rather than cleaners, doctors, patients or visitors.

Sixty-two percent of Africans do not have access to an improved sanitation facility - a proper toilet - which separates human waste from human contact, according to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation.

Cancerbackup, the information and support charity, has launched the first online cancer social network in the UK at Whatnow.org.uk. Called What Now? because that’s the first question you ask when diagnosed with cancer, the website provides people affected by cancer with an unprecedented ability to connect, communicate and exchange information with one another.