£15Billion NHS Pill Bill
The NHS cost as half of woman are on prescription drugs. The Sun newspaper reports that almost half England’s population takes prescription drugs – costing the NHS £15billion a year. Fifty per cent of woman...
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Drinks Can – ‘A Risk To Health’ – Alert Over Chemical
Drinking two cans of fizzy pop can trigger a dangerous rise in blood pressure due to a chemical used in packaging. New research shows bisphenol A (BPA) – used as a lining to prevent rust...
Gastric band mum now wants boob job on NHS
A woman who had £23,000 of weight-loss surgery on the NHS now wants a boob job funded by the taxpayer. Beckie Lawton – who weighed 30 stone at her heaviest – had a £9,000 NHS...
Drug cuts cholesterol to level of a baby
A powerful new drug slashes “bad” cholesterol significantly, a study has found. Alirocumab could be the most important drug to tackle bad cholesterol since statins were introduced. It is being hailed as the latest weapon...
Building A House Abroad On UK Benefits
Several newspapers today are running the story of a Roma gypsy who is using £60,000 of British handouts to build a mansion in his own country. Scrap metal dealer Ion Lazar plans to pay for...
NHS OP – Not If You’re Fat Or Smoke!
Fat people have been banned from having NHS operations in a county unless they diet – and smokers are being spurned unless they quit. The blitz in Devon – described as temporary while hospitals there...
Minister Demands Firms Take On Disabled Workers
Every British business should take on a disabled person for work experience in 2015, a Minister has demanded. The call from Minister for Disabled People Mark Harper is backed by a host of top firms...
50% Cancer Patients Surviving 10 Years
Good News!. – Half of all cancer patients will now live for at least a decade after being diagnosed, a study has revealed. The chances have increased dramatically since 1970s. More than 70% now live...
Dementia Risk From Diabetes
Diabetes in middle age can dramatically increase the risk of developing dementia, scientists have warned. They say the disease causes the mind to age five years faster. Research shows that middle-aged diabetes sufferrers are at...
Scandal of how Britain treats elderly
Sarah O’Grady writing in the Daily Express regarding how Britain is failing its elderly with some of the worst pensioner health care in the developed world. The UK comes a shameful 27th in a global ...