Category Archives: Children’s Health

Is bad digestion putting you at risk of anaemia and osteoporosis?

Posted on November 1st, 2012

Millions of Brits could be putting themselves at risk of chronic conditions including anaemia and osteoporosis by ignoring common digestive problems. The warning comes after a study revealed 83 per cent of the people notice they react to certain foods. But most either ignore symptoms such as bloating, trapped wind and diarrhoea, or self-medicate. More [...]

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Cold Weather Plan for England 2012 published

Posted on October 29th, 2012

The Cold Weather Plan aims to prepare for the effects of winter weather on people’s health. It provides advice for individuals, communities and agencies on how to prepare for and respond to severe cold weather. And it is supported by a Met Office cold weather alert service that starts on 1 November and runs until [...]

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Gene link to placebo effect

Posted on October 25th, 2012

The “placebo effect may be ‘down to genes’”, BBC News reports. The placebo effect is the well-established but poorly understood phenomena where some patients given a dummy treatment (such as a sugar pill) will still have an improvement in their symptoms (as people expect to get better, they do get better). The news is based [...]

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Single system for nutrition labelling announced

Posted on October 25th, 2012

The Department has announced proposals for front-of-pack nutrition labelling that clearly displays: how much fat, saturated fat, salt and sugar and how many calories food products contain. The new proposed system includes using: colour coding guideline daily amounts (%GDA) high/medium/low text Many retailers already use variants of a hybrid system. However they each display the [...]

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Health staff reminded to get flu jab

Posted on October 23rd, 2012

Health staff are being reminded to get vaccinated against flu to cut the risk of it spreading to patients and colleagues this winter. Frontline healthcare workers are more likely to be exposed to the influenza virus, particularly during winter months when some of the people in their care will be infected. It has been estimated [...]

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£11 million for parenting programme

Posted on October 22nd, 2012

A pioneering programme helping young parents give their children a healthier start in life is to be rolled out across Scotland. The Family Nurse Partnership, which supports first-time parents aged 19 and under, will be up and running around the country by 2015 thanks to a £11 million investment over the next two years. The [...]

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Bupa launch toolkit to help loved ones discuss dementia

Posted on October 11th, 2012

Today (11 October 2012) Bupa launch a Talking Toolkit to help people communicate with friends and loved ones who are living with dementia. Research commissioned by Bupa and carried out by ICM shows that nearly a third (32%) of people in Britain are apprehensive about talking to people with dementia. Alzheimer’s Society comment: ‘People with [...]

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More younger people suffer strokes Press Association

Posted on October 11th, 2012

Unhealthy lifestyles may be increasing the number of younger people suffering strokes, researchers have said. A study showed that from the early 1990s to 2005 the proportion of stroke victims under the age of 55 in one region of the United States rose from 13% to 19%. The average age at which people experienced a [...]

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Herbal remedy Echinacea ‘does protect against colds’

Posted on October 11th, 2012

Echinacea “can prevent colds”, reports The Daily Telegraph, while the Daily Mail reports that the “largest ever clinical study into Echinacea finds herbal remedy can protect against colds”. These headlines were based on a study which found that giving healthy adults three doses of the herbal remedy Echinacea daily for four months reduced the combined [...]

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‘Dud’ typhoid fever vaccine fears

Posted on October 11th, 2012

As many as 700,000 travellers are at risk of typhoid fever because of ‘dud batches of a vaccine’, The Daily Telegraph reports. The news is based on a drug alert issued by the UK drug regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The alert to healthcare professionals advises that 16 batches of the typhoid [...]

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