Mammograms could be used to detect the risk of heart attacks in middle-aged women
Scientists show link between amount of calcium in arteries of the breast and the level of calcium build-up in coronary arteries (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: breast cancer Mammogram heart attacks Source Type: news
Cap number of foreign nurses coming to Britain, say official advisers
The Home Office's Migration Advisory Committee warns bad planning is leading the health sector to use overseas nurses as a "get out of jail free card" (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: cap immigrants advisory committee migration training foreign nurses Source Type: news
Striking junior doctors will regret listening to the BMA
Militant medics are happy to abandon patients by launching a full walkout in a bid to be paid more to work Saturdays. A public backlash is inevitable (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: doh doctors government junior contract junior doctor health health secretary jeremy hunt nhs junior doctors Source Type: news
Breakfast isn't the most important meal of the day, says scientist
Skipping it or eating it 'won't make any difference to weight' says a lecturer in nutrition at the University of Bath (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: University of Bath metabolism breakfast Source Type: news
GPs should prescribe a walk in a national park for obese patients, say ministers
The Government is backing a scheme being trialled in Dartmoor and Exmoor under which GPs are encouraged to hand out prescriptions for more exercise, rather than more drugs, to combat ailments (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Elizabeth Truss GPs doctors Food and Rural Affairs Dartmoor Liz Truss Defra Exmoor Department of Environment Source Type: news
A nation of whingers: as life gets better, why are we so gloomy?
The better life in the UK objectively gets, the more we seem to complain that things seem to be getting worse, official study suggests (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Meningitis B vaccine cost analysis 'underestimates' impact on families
Campaigners and experts calling for older children to receive MenB vaccine say current cost-benefit analysis does not take into account the true impacts of the illness (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: meningitis children toddler treatment every b all victims nhs vaccine millions young Source Type: news
How to brew the perfect cuppa: the four-step guide
Leaving the tap to run before filling the kettle could be the key, researchers find (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: perfect cup of tea Professor Mark Miodownik four steps George Orwell UCL a nice cup of tea Source Type: news
Zika outbreak: Where is the virus spreading?
The World Health Organisation has declared a global emergency in response to the spread of Zika - but which countries are currently affected by the virus? (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cold homes caused 9,000 deaths in England and Wales last winter
Ministers say £1m has been invested to help those who are ill as a result of fuel poverty (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: fuel poverty cold homes ucl winter deaths Source Type: news
Personal trainers on the NHS in war on diabetes
Thousands of people will be offered a nine month programme of health and fitness coaching on the NHS in a bid to tackle rising diabetes levels (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: obesity NHS England motivational coaches public health england diabetes personal trainers Source Type: news
A child's birth month could increase their chances of suffering allergies
Babies born in the autumn have an increased risk of eczema and autumn and winter children have a higher chance of developing asthma (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: children allergies month unversity southampton eczema birth asthma Source Type: news
George Osborne must U-turn on his ludicrous sugar tax
After climbing down on so much, like disability cuts, the Chancellor must do it again over his buzzkilling fizzy drinks tax (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: budget 2016 sugar tax conservative finance budgetary money jamie oliver brendan o'neill osborne uturns Source Type: news
'NHS spent £181,000 treating just one illegal immigrant'
Leading cancer specialist claims migrants are putting "unsustainable" strain on NHS (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: migrants Angus Dalgleish portsmouth NHS bill asylum seeker Source Type: news
Doctor who misled courts over shaken baby syndrome is struck off
Dr Waney Squier failed to be objective and unbiased in six cases in which she gave evidence, disciplinary panel rules (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service misled courts shaken baby syndrome Waney Squier Source Type: news
