Happiness can break your heart, doctors warn
The lethal condition 'happy heart syndrome' can occur after a joyful event such as a surprise birthday party or the birth of a child (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: lethal happy heart syndrome broken heart syndrome happiness zurich fatal Source Type: news
Radiotherapy for prostate cancer raises risk of new tumours
Patients should be informed that radiotherapy raises the risk of secondary cancer, say health experts (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: secondary university of toronto harvard tumour warning cancer radiotherapy prostate cancer Source Type: news
Half of pregnant women attending their first maternity appointment are overweight or obese
Being obese during pregnancy increases the risk of complications such as gestational diabetes (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: pregnant health obesity baby health children health pregnancy health Source Type: news
Up to six alcoholic drinks a week does not pose heart attack or stroke risk
Research contradicts chief medical officer's claim drinking "any level of alcohol regularly carries a health risk" (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Guinness heiress who battered mother with handbag given restraining order
Emma Irby was left lying in her own blood-soaked bedsheets after being attacked by her 35-year-old daughter (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Guinness heiress handbag Eliza battered hammersmith magistrates' courts blood-soaked sheets Emma Irby Source Type: news
Cash paid by European Union migrants to use British hospitals falls despite surge in EU nationals moving to the UK
Critics say the Government had been 'complacent' and failed to get a grip on health tourism and Britain was 'being played for fools' by its EU neighbours (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: health tourism National Health Service crackdown John Mann hospitals NHS Source Type: news
Brain scan to diagnose Alzheimer's disease developed by scientists
US scientists have shown it is possible to spot when Alzheimer's disease emerges through brain scans (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: alzheimer's disease brain scan UC Berkley treatment university of california symptoms PET scan diagnosis Source Type: news
Number of 'legal highs' soaring, warns United Nations body
International Narcotics Control Board says more than 600 new psychoactive substances were reported around the world last year, a rise of 55 per cent (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: UN NPS drugs INCB legal highs Source Type: news
The Left needs to face up to the sickness of benefit fraud
I've seen smirking welfare addicts scam the system while cancer patients are branded 'fit for work' . Something has to change (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: alex neil welfare glasgow benefit claimants benefits scottish national tom harris snp welfare state labourites Source Type: news
Meningitis B: Government rejects call for vaccine for all children despite record petition
Department of Health refuses to bow to demands of more than 800,000 signatories and says priority is to vaccinate children considered most at risk (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: government Meningitis B department of health petition vaccine Source Type: news
Life-changing Sickle Cell Disease treatment approved by NHS watchdog
A new automatic blood transfusion treatment will half the number of visits to hospital for people with Sickle Cell Disease (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: sickle cell disease nhs watchdog nice red blood cells transfusion Source Type: news
Sporty baby-boomers spark surge in hip-replacements
Around 8,000 more hip replacements are carried out every year for under 60s who refuse to give up sports in middle age (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: knee replacement hip replacmeent baby boomers nuffield health royal college of surgeons extreme sports Source Type: news
Ban contact rugby in schools, say health experts
Dozens of doctors and health experts have written to the Government calling for a ban on tackling in school rugby games to avoid needless injuries (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: sports spinal rugby government ban injuries head schools letter Source Type: news
Tesco recalls flavoured butter over food poisoning fear
Customers who return items will be offered full refund (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: flavoured Tesco Listeria monocytogenes food poisoning recall butters Source Type: news
Doctor attacked A&E patients on Twitter and claimed 90pc are 'neurotics', tribunal hears
London consultant posts dozens of messages on social media, including: 'A few aches and pains... Just crack on like every other normal thinking person' (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Manchester GMC & Dr Christian Solomonides nhs north London Barnet Hospital Source Type: news
