This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45667480 By Alex TherrienHealth reporter, BBC News People with severe allergies have been told they can use their EpiPens past their normal expiry date, amid a continuing shortage of the devices. The medicines regulator said it had agreed to extend the use-by date of some 0.3mg EpiPens by four months. It comes…
This article was taken from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/crash-diet-meal-replacement-lose-weight-healthy-eating-oxford-university-bmj-a8556401.html By Alex Matthews-King Health Correspondent Eating shakes, soups and meal replacement bars for three meals a day helped obese patients lose nearly four times as much weight as those told to eat healthily and cut calories, a study has found. Oxford University researchers have reported “total meal replacement” diets, which restrict participants to just 810 calories per day for eight…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/28/act-now-prevent-rise-breast-cancer-deaths-charity By Guardian News Death toll projected to climb by 2022 due to increase in incidence of disease and ageing population The number of women dying from breast cancer in the UK could begin to rise within four years, an analysis has shown. A rise in incidence of the disease coupled…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/26/separating-fact-from-hype-in-the-study-of-cancer-and-obesity Findings of a report from Cancer Research UK about cancer in women are challenged by David Steinsaltz The recent report by Cancer Research UK (Obesity set to be bigger cause of cancer in women than smoking, 24 September) hypes a very minor and unsurprising result – that the fraction of…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/26/eating-junk-food-raises-risk-of-depression-says-multi-country-study By Denis Campbell Health policy editor Analysis of 41 studies leads to calls for GPs to give dietary advice as part of treatment Eating junk food increases the risk of becoming depressed, a study has found, prompting calls for doctors to routinely give dietary advice to patients as part of their treatment…