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  • Complementary therapies embraced at Olympics

    It’s good to see complementary therapy having a presence at the 2016 Summer Olympics, as a number of athletes show signs of cupping. Cupping has been especially embraced by Team USA and its swimmers and gymnasts. Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, is perhaps the most notable to have been spotted in Rio with…

  • New research released by Macmillan shows positive improvements

    More than 170,000 people are living with cancer in the UK who were diagnosed in the 1970s and 1980s, according to new research released by Macmillan Cancer Support and Public Health England’s National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS). In a new report ‘Cancer: Then and Now’, Macmillan reveals for the first time the number…

  • Collaboration to tackle inactivity in Manchester

    Sport England has teamed up with the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership to tackle levels of inactivity in the county. The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership is made up of 37 NHS organisations and councils in the region and aims to ‘make sport and physical activity a part of daily life.’ More than…

  • Vitamin D essential for good health

    We all need regular vitamin D for healthy bones and muscles. Vitamin D is made in the skin by sunlight and food containing the vitamin, such as oily fish, red meat, dairy products, orange juice and cereal. Public Health England recommends a daily intake of 10 micrograms and says that if you eat a healthy balanced diet…

  • Tackling mental illness in children should begin before birth

    Tackling mental illness in children should begin before they are born, at a time when expectant mothers can suffer mental health problems, say councils. The Local Government Association, which represents more than 370 councils, says this can have a potentially devastating impact on their new-born child which could set their personal and emotional development back…

  • Demand for gender reassignment surgery on the rise

    The demand for gender reassignment surgery is ‘going through the roof,’ according to surgeons who perform vaginoplasty and phalloplasty operations in the UK. They say that fewer than a dozen surgeons currently specialise in gender reassignment surgery in the UK and more will be needed to keep up with the growing demand. The current gender reassignment surgeons are…

  • Schoolchildren can lose up to 80 per cent of fitness over summer holidays

    Schoolchildren in the UK may be losing as much as 80 per cent of fitness gained during term time through inactivity over the summer holidays, according to the latest research from ukactive. In a bid to provide an accurate measure of children’s fitness, ukactive Research Institute teamed up with Premier Sport and conducted tests on…

  • Mental health outcomes unchanged in four years

    Mental health charity Gofal warns that patient outcomes in Wales have not improved since the Mental Health Measure was introduced in 2012. The Mental Health measure aims to ‘improve the treatment of people with mental health problems in Wales’ and received cross-party support.  However, Gofal’s  recent report, Snapshot 4: Three years on, showed little signs of progress. The…

  • Complementary therapies included in pregnancy guidelines

    Complementary therapy has been highlighted as potentially helpful for the management of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum, in guidelines by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The guidelines on the management of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum cite a study by FHT expert adviser, Denise Tiran, providing evidence for the efficacy…

  • Wholegrain foods reduce the risk of disease and premature death

    Eating wholegrain foods is associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer and premature mortality, according to a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies by researchers at the Imperial College London. The study set out to ‘quantify the dose-response relation between consumption of wholegrain and specific types of grains and the…

  • Study links air pollution with mental illness in children

    A large longitudinal cohort study, published in BMJ Open, has found an association between neighbourhood air pollution concentrations and prescribed medication for psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents in Sweden. Researchers examined the data of more than half a million children and adolescents under 18 years of age, with an average follow-up time of three and a half…

  • Absenteeism and presenteeism costs UK workplaces £23 billion per year

    Absenteeism and presenteeism* is costing UK employers up to £23 billion per year, according to the British Dietetic Association’s Work Ready Programme Whitepaper, highlighting the importance of investing in workplace health… The British Dietetic Association (BDA), founded in 1936, is the professional association and trade union for dietitians in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It…