George Osborne's sugar tax is control freakery that will only punish the poor
Adults know that sugar is bad for us. Guess what? It tastes nice (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: sugar tax Source Type: news
Sugar Tax: How much sugar is in the food and drink you consume?
As a sugar tax is introduced in George Osborne's Budget statement, The Telegraph explores exactly how much sugar is in the food that Britons eat everyday (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: obesity health snacks Sugar drinks starbucks packed how much sugar news. video Source Type: news
Girl, 12, who dreamed of studying at Cambridge died from sepsis after being sent home twice by walk-in centre
An inquest heard nurses at the weekend walk-in centre failed to detect the infection was spreading through her body (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: death sepsis weekend blood poisoning franchesca pawson nhs derby Source Type: news
Blood test could diagnose Alzheimer's disease in the middle-aged
There is at present no drug capable of stopping the physical onslaught of dementia (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: amyloid-beta peptides University of Gottingen Alzheimer's Ruhr University Bochum memory loss Source Type: news
E-cigarettes could be banned in Welsh public places to protect children
Welsh politicians will vote on the new rules to ban vaping in certain public places like schools and public transport (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: public places children cigarettes ban smoking e-cigarettes schools wales vaping Source Type: news
Schoolgirl dies after series of NHS mistakes by out-of-hours staff
Malaika Adam, from Essex, was misdiagnosed with a stomach bug but was suffering from a burst appendix (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Malaika Adam stomach bug nhs appendix basildon Source Type: news
Thailand's monks are put on diet and fitness regime amid 'obesity time bomb'
They are renowned for meditation and moderation, but more than half the country's Buddhist monks are obese, according to new research (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Thailand monks Thailand supreme patriarch obesity time bomb Thai monk diet Buddhism in Thailand overweight monks Thai sex scandal obese monks Source Type: news
New running blades for 500 amputee children after £1.5million NHS boost in 2016 Budget
Revealed: The Chancellor will say today that he has found £500,000 to be spent on new "child sports prosthetics" to allow 500 amputee children to run or swim (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: George Osborne chancellor legs running blades Sarah Hope amputee Source Type: news
Young amputees want to run, not just walk
Britain should capitalise on its Paralympics glory and give blades to children who have lost a limb (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: amputees budget pollyanna hope sarah hope Source Type: news
Dog owners warned of fatal tick-borne disease canine babesiosis which is likely to spread around UK
Four dogs have contracted the condition in recent months despite not travelling abroad, with three of the animals dying (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: ticks essex dog canine babesiosis dog owners tick disease tick borne Source Type: news
One of Britain's fattest children identified as 10-year-old weighing more than 16 stone
In England alone the health problems associated with being overweight or obese cost the NHS more than £5 billion every year (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: bmi childhood obesity obesity england children weight Source Type: news
'Doctors are too afraid to mention meningitis' parents warn
Families call for better awareness of meningitis B symptoms and call for quicker precautionary action to be taken by medics (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Matt Dawson tells MPs of son's battle with meningitis
Campaigners behind the meningitis B vaccine petition, including former England rugby player Matt Dawson, ask MPs to consider vaccinating all children up to the age of 11 (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: meningitis b video vaccination parliament votev Commons petition vaccine livestream watch live Source Type: news
Married anaesthetist blackmailed after having sex with prostitute at maternity hospital, tribunal hears
Associates of escort who had 40-minute sexual liaison with doctor while he was on duty demand cash and threaten to tell NHS, misconduct hearing told (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust prostitute blackmail anaesthetist Source Type: news
Joan Bakewell is right that anorexia is linked to vanity
The broadcaster has revealed an uncomfortable truth about our selfie culture and its effect on young girls (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: angela epstein children mental health anorexia eating disorder food joan bakewell Source Type: news
