It's time to retire retirement
Life for older people is better than it has ever been. We need a new model of life after 65 and new institutions to enable it (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: raise obsolete communal care retirement old people work age options care homes abolish 65 Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson to pay £51m to family of woman who died from ovarian cancer 'caused by talcum powder'
Jury in St Louis orders health products manufacturer to pay family of woman who claimed two talc-based products caused her ovarian cancer (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson must pay £51 million in suit claiming Baby Powder led to ovarian cancer
Jury in St Louis orders health products manufacturer to pay family of woman who claimed two talc-based products caused her ovarian cancer (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mother of meningitis B victim says treatment will cost NHS millions
Freya Hall backs calls for all children to receive vaccine, noting that the cost of treating victims such as her young daughter were 'massive' (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Junior doctors' contracts: New wave of 48-hour strikes confirmed
British Medical Association announces a string of three strikes to take place in March and April in ongoing row over junior doctors' contracts (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: strike bma junior doctors british medical assocation Source Type: news
MPs 'to debate meningitis B vaccine within weeks'
Members of Commons committee tasked with discussing record-breaking petition acknowledge that subject cannot be ignored (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: debate virus meningitis B died campaign MPs online babies disease petition vaccine Source Type: news
Drinking two cups of coffee a day 'drastically reduces risk of liver cirrhosis', according to experts
Four cups a day could lower the risk by 65 per cent, researchers say (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: coffee liver cirrhosis Source Type: news
Mother releases images of final moments of son who died from meningitis
Mason Timmins was just seven-years-old when he died of the disease and his mother, Claire, has become the latest parent to try and raise awareness of the dangers of the killer (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Mason Timmins meningitis images Dawson petition vaccine Faye Source Type: news
Fresh blood to help fight malaria
MediSieve, a machine invented by George Frodsham, strips out infected cells from blood and could be used to treat malaria (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: royal academy malaria george frodsham engineering angels life sciences healthtech medisieve Source Type: news
NHS 111 service might be unfit to diagnose children, says Royal College of Paediatricians president
Professor Neena Modi says this is question mark over whether or 111 call handlers - who are not medically trained - should be carrying out assessments (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: unfit diagnose children medical training call handlers 111 assessments service nhs neena modi Source Type: news
There's no silver bullet in the fight against obesity
Helping children to live healthier lives is crucial, but a tax on sugar alone will not solve the problem (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: obesity sugar tax Source Type: news
Meningitis petition becomes most signed in government history
The online campaign calling for the meningitis vaccine to be given to all children receives a record number of signatures (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New study says Paleo diet 'unhealthy and fattening' angering ardent devotees
Australian researchers tested the low-carbohydrate, high-fat Paleo diet on mice for just eight weeks and found it led to 15 per cent weight gains and doubled fat mass (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Paleo diet researchers weight weight gains Australia Source Type: news
New genetic test to detect inherited heart conditions
Researchers develop blood test that identifies all known inherited heart condition genes that affect hundreds of thousands of Britons (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Miles Frost Fund heart bhf Sir David Frost blood test genetic british heart foundation Source Type: news
A good night's sleep and regular exercise 'significantly cuts risk of stroke'
Experts found sleeping for seven to eight hours and taking 30 to 60 minutes of exercise three to six times a week was optimal (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: obese New York University School of Medicine stroke exercise sleeping Source Type: news
