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When it comes to the G20 league table for healthcare, the UK is bumping along somewhere near the bottom. Turkey and Mexico are the only two countries in the G20 …
Top Spot
Fat but fit increases risk of CHD
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‘Fat but fit’ people are at increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), even if they are otherwise healthy, according to a new study published in the European Heart Journal. …
EU sugar quotas and the obesity problem
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The EU sugar market has long been regulated by quotas which imposed limits on production of beet sugar. However, this will all change in 2017 when production and export restrictions …
Video
Breastfeeding call to action
This week is #WorldBreastfeedingWeek. This Unicef Video highlights the issues behind the UK’s low breastfeeding rates, …
Diaries of a First World War Nurse
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Dorothea Crewdson, a Red Cross nurse, was given instructions to leave for northern France in 1915. She spent the next four years as a witness to some of the worst …
Lake Tanganyika Floating Clinic
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Water is at the heart of WAVE’s work. Realising how fundamental the lake was to the region, they begun to use the lake as a highway, using boats to deliver …
Talking Points
One Young World:
Faith healers and better mental health
Over time, society and medicine have progressed, pushing tradition, ritual, superstition, and religion aside in …
Blogs from The Far East:
Soya
Consuming too many soya products like tofu might increase the risk for memory loss, according …
An Apothecary Writes:
The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries sounds like some relic of a bygone time. But this …
On The Couch:
Autism in sharp focus
Autism brings into sharp focus what it is to be human. I’d summarise autism as …