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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
Couch potatoes can get help to improve their health from the comfort of their sofa with the launch of the NHS Direct Interactive digital service today. It will provide advice of subjects including diet, sexual health and smoking.
HealthThe Sentinel – 16th December 2004
 
A new tuberculosis drug is being described as one of the most important developments in the fight against respiratory disease for 40 years. In experiments on mice, the drug dramatically shortened the time taken to rid the lungs of the deadly infection, a prime reason why drug-resistant forms of TB are rising. About 7,000 Britons a year are infected with TB, a rise of about a quarter in 10 years, and about 300,000 cases of multi-resistant forms of TB are detected annually.
HealthThe Independent – 10th December 2004
 
The embryology watchdog should be scrapped because its "appalling mismanagement" of recent controversies, including the "designer baby" row, a leading fertility specialist said yesterday. Lord Winston, a pioneer of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), condemned the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) as incompetent and outdated and called for it to be replaced. The authority was established 14 years ago to regulate IVF, artificial insemination and the storage of sperm and eggs, as well as research into human embryos. It has been caught up in disputes this year over creating "designer babies"- that could provide a tissue match for a sick brother or sister - and over the selection of the sex of children. It also faces a legal challenge after it granted permission for Newcastle University scientists to perform "therapeutic cloning" of human embryos in research into diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
HealthThe Independent – 11th December 2004
 
School children will have to play up to five hours of sport a week under a £500m programme to tackle childhood obesity to be announced by Tony Blair today. Ministers will more than double the minimum time children should spend on PE each week by 2010 as part of a drive to end the long-term decline in school sports.
HealthThe Independent – 14th December 2004
 
Businessmen and teenage boys could be risking their fertility by using laptop computers, research suggested today. The combination of heat generated by the computers and the posture needed to balance the equipment on the lap leads to raised temperatures around the scrotum, a study found.
HealthThe Sentinel – 9th December 2004
 
Rapid advances in technology over the last century are causing people to gain weight and obesity levels to rise, a professor claimed today. Professor Carol Propper said that agricultural advances have caused more food to be produced at a far lower cost. But technology has made work far less strenuous, so people must pay for, rather than be paid, to exercise. At least 30,000 deaths a year are caused by obesity in England alone and the condition costs the NHS around £500 million each year.
HealthThe Sentinel – 3rd December 2004
 
Eating large amounts of red meat may increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis. Researchers at the University of Manchester studied 25,000 people aged 45 to 75. They found consuming high levels of red meat was an independent risk factor for inflammatory arthritis. The report, published in the journal 'Arthritis and Rheumatism', also found patients with arthritis were more likely to have been former smokers.
HealthThe Independent – 4th December 2004
 
According to experts at least two million people in the UK are suffering from malnutrition. Thousands are not eating enough, with their condition going unrecognised and untreated, according to Patients 1st for Nutrition.
HealthThe Sentinel - 15th Novemeber 2004
 
Family Doctors are to be told to get people back to work after a period of illness in a bid to end sick note culture. Each year in Britain, 166 million days are taken as sick leave and long term absences of more than 20 days make up a third of the total.
HealthThe Independent - 15th November 2004
 
Scotland has followed Ireland's pioneering anti-tobacco stance with a total ban on smoking in all public buildings. In Scotland 1 in 4 deaths is said to be directly attributed to smoking related illnesses, with some 13,000 deaths a year, 35,000 hospital admissions and an annual financial burden on the health service in excess of £200m.
HealthThe Independent - 11th November 2004
 
Women could be paid up to £1,000 to donate their eggs to couples having IVF treatment. At present they are paid £15 plus expenses for each sample. Payments for sperm donation could rise to £50 a time. More than 1,700 cycles of treatment using donated eggs were done in 2001, leading to 465 births. Doctors are believed to need 1,000 new egg donors and 200 new sperm donors each year to keep up demand.
HealthThe Independent - 12th November 2004
 
Boozers can keep tabs on their alcohol intake by logging on to a new website. The sitw www.drinkaware.co.uk allows drinkers to see how their drinking patterns compare with the recommended guidelines.
HealthThe Sentinel - 12th November 2004
 
A new vaccine could drastically cut the number of women who suffer cervical cancer, according to scientists. Experts believe the vaccine, developed in the US could prevent up to 70% of cases.
HealthThe Sentinel - 12th November 2004
 
People living in the most disadvantaged parts of England are much more likely to die from smoking related diseases. In some parts of the country, almost half of men's deaths were caused by smoking, according to the Health Development Agency. According to the report; The Smoking Epidemic in England, said it was estimated more than 1,600 people died from smoking each week in England. The overall percentage of smokers was estimated to be 31%.
HealthThe Sentinel - 12th November 2004
 
One in 3 girls of ten is overweight. Only 60% of school girls and 70% of boys take the recommended minimum of 60 minutes exercise a day, according to a study for the British Heart Foundation. It was also found that 1 in 5 girls age 2 to 15 is overweight, including 7.8% who are classed as obese. 16% of boys are overweight with 5.7% obese. The problem is worst among 10 year old girls, 33% of whom are overweight.
HealthDaily Mail - 24th September 2004
 
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