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Onions 'help in heart disease prevention process'

Welsh mums-to-be 'more likely to smoke'

Cancer survival chance linked to parents

Good night's sleep eluding many women

Half of students at risk of hepatitis C

Complementary therapies may help heart patients

Improved detection could prevent stillbirths

Pregnant women 'okay to exercise'

Healthy lifestyle can combat depression

Sports enthusiasts urged to protect joints

High GI foods may cause liver disease

Majority unaware of breast cancer age link

British Parliamentary Committee Proposes Noting On Birth Certificates Whether Children Were Conceived With Egg, Sperm Donation

Material advantages increasing for better-educated mothers and their children

Women Deliver: Global Conference, London, October 18-20 - Curbing Needless Deaths During Pregnancy And Childbirth, UK

Screening Matters This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, UK

Managing Teenage Pregnancy

Sandwiches 'rival crisps on salt'

Wine 'can protect women's hearts'

Shot of Alcohol Eases Foot Pain

New Campaign To Encourage Mums To Breastfeed

Apples, fish - necessary foods during pregnancy

95% of UK Employers Do Not Know if Health Care Benefits Do Their Staff Any Good

Switzerland Recommends Gardasil For Girls Ages 11 To 14; U.K. To Decide Whether To Recommend HPV Vaccine

BMA Response To Conservative Party Health Plans, UK

UK looks set to introduce routine cervical cancer vaccination next year

Single embryo IVF 'more likely to work'

Could Pill Really Delay Menopause?

Once-a-month drug to combat the shattering effect of osteoporosis

Regular exercise results in 25% less muscle and joint pain in old age

Lives of elderly at risk, low flu vaccination rates among UK healthcare worker

Breast drug campaign frustration

Getting viruses to help us fight cancer

Baby hormone stops breast cancer

Drinking alcohol reduces breast milk supply in women, study

Campaign for breast-feeding rights

Seizure Drug May Be Harmful During Pregnancy

Many Infertile Women Want to Choose Baby's Gender

Should women be more dominant in the bedroom? 8-Mar-2005

Marked improvement in the number of cancers detected by breast screening 28-Feb-2005

Mothers on the run, dramatic changes in working patterns 23-Feb-2005

New Clue Predicts Breast Cancer Behavior FRIDAY, Feb. 11

Toxoplasmosis Tests Urged for All Pregnant Women, Newborns FRIDAY, Feb. 11

Foods Like Fish May Buoy Your Mental Health THURSDAY, Feb. 10

Moderate female drinkers less likely to have Alzheimer's later on

Common Antidepressants Lower Effects of Tamoxifen in Many Women

Women still less likely to have heart attack correctly identified

Olive oil 'fights breast cancer'

Vitamin A linked to breast cancer

How women can avoid migraines during that time-of-the-month

Slim-Fast Optima Diet Plan Includes More Food Choices Than Ever Before

Cardiovascular Risk with Celecoxib (Celebrex), UK Agency Informs

Women waiting longer to give birth, UK

Milk could increase risk of cancer, scientists warn

Breast cancer testing technique gains momentum

CF care crisis

Raspberries may beat tummy bugs

Green diet may not beat cancer

Embryos to get cancer screening

How Brazil Nuts Can Beat Cancer 09 Oct 2004  Daily Mail

Woman Gives Surprise Insight Into Hot Flashes 08 Oct 2004

British children chemically 'contaminated'

Pollutants 'in children's blood'

Lettuce blamed for salmonella outbreak, UK

Long-Term Insulin Use May Raise Colon Cancer Risk

'Too little' mental illness help

UK gives boost to international research into new cancer treatments

Steroids Useless for Head Trauma

Reid Hints at Action on Junk Food Ads  10 September, 2004

Ministers consider UK smoking ban  10 September, 2004

BBC begins anti-obesity campaign 09 September, 2004

Phone radiation openness demand 08 September, 2004

Breasts grown from buttock tissues London, August 18, 2004 (ANI)

Device to make life easier for kidney patients developed  London, August 16, 2004 (ANI)

The pain is all in the brain! August 09, 2004 London

Aids drugs 'can curb HIV spread' August 05, 2004

Measles outbreak in town August 05, 2004

UK Healthcare Commission publishes national patient surveys August 05, 2004

As medicine targets personal DNA profiles, researchers examine ethics and patient experiences August 05, 2004

Health bills cut for fitness fans August 04, 2004

Coping with the 21st century disease August 04, 2004

Safety guidelines for consumption of oily fish released! London, June 25 (ANI)

Study reveals dangers of holiday sex 23 June, 2004

Food snacking could 'cost lives' 22 June, 2004

Just Visiting the Doctor Makes People Feel Better, According to New NOP World Health Research 22 June, 2004

Royal Welsh 'binge drinking' alarm 22 June, 2004

Babies may get meningitis booster 22 June, 2004

More women are having abortions 21 June, 2004

Scientists to study why Atkins diet on everyone's lips 08 July, 2004

Silver Ring begins binding Brits tonight 25 June, 2004

Cancer benefits 'going unclaimed'  23 June, 2004

Astrazeneca Launches Blood-Thinning Drug  21 June, 2004

What do patients want, a worldwide study 14 June, 2004

Drug 'Cuts Diabetics' Stroke Risk by Half'  06 June, 2004

More people have heart disease in UK, but death rates are falling 04 June, 2004

Smoking down but drinking up in Northern Ireland 03 June, 2004

Sunbed users getting 'bad advice' 5 June, 2004

We're Considering A Smoking Ban, Says Blair  4 June, 2004

Cervical Closure Doesn't Reduce Preterm Deliveries  4 June, 2004

Tobacco Firms Add Sweeteners 'To Hook Youngsters'  3 June, 2004

New electronic x-rays and scans will mean faster diagnosis for patients UK 10 May, 2004

Heatwaves can make trees pollute May 10,2004

Myths stop women breastfeeding their babies May 10,2004

Flour industry targets the nutrition trail May 10,2004

UK parents battle sterilization moves by their under age girls May 4,2004,  London  (ANI)

Soon, spinach may cure blindness!  April-29, 2004,  London, (ANI)

Programme gets to heart of matter APRIL 03, 2004

Double surgery for obese 'safer'. 3 April, 2004, BBC

 

Weighty research links hormone to the drive to eat April 3, 2004

Study suggests UK binge drinking on the wane 02 April, 2004

Jury Still Out on Cancer Risk from Tanning Beds April 1, 2004 - ET 

Will smoke-free Ireland target drinking next? 01 April, 2004

NHS promotes walking over going to the gym  March 31, 2004-The Guardian

Tackling the obesity time bomb March 15, 2004

Acupuncture helps chronic headache sufferers, study says March 15, 2004

Thin babies at higher diabetes risk ANI-February 26, 2004

Average kids' waistlines grew over 20 years February 24, 2004

Alcohol inhalation has doctors worried AEDT- February 17, 2004

Doctors issue warning on obesity (Wednesday, 11 February, 2004,BBC)

Impact of tobacco on reproductive and child health (Wednesday, 11 Feb 2004, BMA Scotland)

New classes of antibacterial oxazolidinones reported (Antimicrobials-January 19, 2004)

Breast cancer patients of lower socioeconomic status may have poorer survival (Breast Cancer-January 19, 2004)

Calcium HA can amplify the pathological process in breast cancer (Breast Cancer-July 28, 2003)

Disease rate increasing among women in Ireland ( Lung Cancer-November 10, 2003)

A CD16+CD56DIM NK cell increase may lead to idiopathic infertility (Assisted Reproduction-January 22, 2004)

 

MSI-low is a real phenomenon that varies in frequency among cancer types (Cancer Research UK-January 14, 2004)

 

New phase of Northern Ireland screening trial launched (Ovarian Cancer-October 7, 2003)

 

Study highlights value of nurses for identifying problems (Adverse Drug Events-May 7, 2003)

 

New Fitness System Turns Couch Potatoes Into Armchair Troopers (Science Daily)

The University of Warwick is promoting healthier lifestyles for even the most deconditioned by increasing awareness of a unique fitness system designed to combat couch potato culture.

 

'Easy' inhaler hope for asthmatics Sunday, 9 November (BBC,UK edition)

Scientists have devised a type of inhaler which they say is easier for asthmatics to use correctly. Conventional inhalers need the user to "press and breathe" at exactly the same time in order to receive the full dose.

 

'Timebomb' alert over child obesity Sunday, 9 November (BBC,UK edition)

Child obesity due to poor nutrition and lack of exercise is a "ticking timebomb" for life expectancy levels, the UK's food watchdog has warned.

 

Crohn’s: overcoming digestive disorder

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 LONDON (health-news.co.uk)

Crohn’s disease is a debilitating disorder of the digestive system and typically strikes in early adulthood. Tracy Verbitsky from Northamptonshire, who was diagnosed at 21, tells us how she’s refusing to let the condition beat her.

 

Can’t eat, won’t eat The Lancet Oncology, November, 2003

Long-lasting anorexia compromises host defences and ultimately delays recovery”. Anorexia—the loss of desire to eat—is a response to tumour growth experienced by many patients with cancer.

 
 

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