Daily Archives: May 10, 2012

Escape your fat traps

Posted on May 10th, 2012

Courtesy of yahoo.co.uk, Zest have listed the greatest of “Fat Traps”. This list gives you details on how to easily avoid those tasty yet weighty pit falls. Source yahoo.co.uk – read the article here >>>

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BBC stars to run Olympic marathon route for Alzheimer’s Society

Posted on May 10th, 2012

Star of BBC dramas Great Expectations, Married.Single.Other and Exile, actor Shaun Dooley will be running the Bupa London 10,000 on 27 May to raise funds for Alzheimer’s Society. Shaun, who also starred in the recent box office hit The Woman in Black, will be running through St James’ Park for the second year in a [...]

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Prescriptions: ’1 in 20 has an error’

Posted on May 10th, 2012

GPs may be regularly making mistakes when prescribing medicines, according to a high-profile report published today by the General Medical Council. The report found that mistakes in areas such as dosage and timing were common, although it also found that “serious” errors were unusual. The report has received a great deal of press interest, with [...]

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Many cancers caused by ‘treatable infections’

Posted on May 10th, 2012

“One in six cancers caused by preventable infections,” the Daily Mail reported. The story comes from a study estimating that, of 12.7 million new cases of cancer that occurred worldwide in 2008, about 2 million were caused by infectious diseases. The infections that cause cancer include Helicobacter pylori (the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers), hepatitis [...]

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