Delaying motherhood could increase risk of womb cancer as diagnosis rates rise by a quarter
Women who do not have children are more at risk from womb cancer, according to experts (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: children childless rate mother uterine women cancer womb diagnosis motherhood Source Type: news
Senior doctor ignored pleas to help collapsed elderly woman, saying 'It's not my problem'
A tribunal heard that Dr Subhash Jasoria acted 'like a bystander' as a woman collapsed with a suspected heart attack (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: jasoria Subhash Jasoria dr jasoria enfield North Middlesex University Hospital doctor anaesthetist Source Type: news
Elderly hospital patients given eviction warnings
Amid soaring levels of 'bedblocking' in the NHS, elderly hospital patients are being warned that they could face eviction if relatives cannot find a care home within three weeks (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: bed blocking eviction Heatlh Service Journal NHS elderly care Source Type: news
Indigestion drugs taken by millions linked to dementia
A common group of drugs taken for heartburn, acid reflux or peptic ulcers, could increase risk of dementia by 44 per cent, study finds (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: ulcer pills indigestion study PPI research drugs dementia heartburn Source Type: news
Health watchdog launches inspection of scandal-hit NHS 111 helpline
Teenagers without adequate medical training are said to have been drafted in to answer urgent calls (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: teenagers inquiry 111 HELPLINE investigation scandal nhs Source Type: news
Cancer 'vaccine' that remembers disease and fights it years later is developed by scientists
Researchers in immunotherapy trials engineer cells so they boost body's natural defences and stand guard for lifetime - acting effectively like vaccine (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: chemotherapy scientists washington vaccination system immune American Association for the Advancement of Science cancer vaccine t-cells Source Type: news
Biggest annual rise in deaths for almost fifty years prompts warnings of crisis in elderly care
England and Wales show a five per cent increase in mortality rates in just one year (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: elderly deaths NHS Wales England Source Type: news
Test tube babies could die sooner
Scientists fear health implications of being conceived by IVF may not be known for many years to come (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: ivf many years conception louise brown babies corn syrup test tube in vitro Source Type: news
Fake football pitches gave my teenage son cancer, says former NHS boss
Ex-NHS Cumbria chief executive campaigns for research into turf that contains arsenic and lead after 18-year-old son develops Hodgkin's lymphoma (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hodgkin's lymphoma nigel maguire nhs cumbria leeds united fake football pitches boss synthetic pitches Source Type: news
Virtual therapy 'helps patients with depression' research finds
Study suggests that when a patient comforts a crying child before hearing that advice repeated back to them, the treatment has lasting results (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: depression mental health treatment avatar NHS virtual reality therapy Source Type: news
A worthwhile legacy
Telegraph View: Around half a million people with mental health problems are unable to find a job. There is no economic logic to this (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: david cameron mental health Source Type: news
Government set to axe plans to introduce sugar tax
Campaigners react with fury to reports that the Government will reject the proposal for a sugar tax of up to 20 per cent (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: obesity sugar tax fizzy drinks Source Type: news
David Cameron makes personal commitment to helping mental health sufferers
Prime Minister speaks out as government task force publishes major new NHS mental health strategy (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: david cameron depression mental health nhs Source Type: news
Eating breakfast leads to obese people doing more physical activity, a study claims
University of Bath researchers analysed the links between breakfast and health for overweight individuals (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: obesity health breakfast Bath Breakfast Project Source Type: news
'Neurostatins' may beat dementia if drugs taken in your 30s
Drug has "serious prospect" of being an effective preventive treatment for Alzheimer's, researchers say (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: cure statins for the brain alzheimer's drugs dementia mind Source Type: news
