Could walking to work help fix the nation's health woes?
Businesses will be encouraging their workers to walk to work as part of a new £1 million trial which gets underway this month.
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Video tool improves health literacy in prostate patients
A video-based tool given to prostate cancer patients significantly improved their understanding of key terms essential to making decisions about prostate cancer treatment, according to a study initiated by the Winship Cancer ...
Nov 13, 2014
First Ebola treatment trials to start in west Africa (Update)
Global aid agency Doctors Without Borders said on Thursday it would begin unprecedented trials on patients in west Africa to test Ebola drugs and the use of survivors' blood as therapy.
Nov 13, 2014
Survivors cheat deadly Ebola in new Battle of Hastings
In a town called Hastings in western Sierra Leone a battle every bit as deadly as the Norman Conquest is being fought every day—against the Ebola virus.
Nov 13, 2014
Surgeon held over botched Indian sterilisations
Indian police announced Thursday they had detained the doctor behind botched mass sterilisation surgeries that left 13 women dead, as campaigners called for urgent reform of the government's family planning programme.
Nov 13, 2014
Moms with rheumatoid arthritis more likely to give birth prematurely
Researchers from Denmark and the U.S. report that babies of women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or pre-clinical RA—the period prior to symptoms—are 1.5 times more likely to be born prematurely in Denmark. Findings published ...
Nov 13, 2014
