Health
If only we had been educated that HIV isn’t a curse, my family might still be with us
Last night, you may have seen me in the ITV1 documentary Corrie Goes to Kenya. During the show, you will have seen Kenya through the eyes of the four Coronation Street actors who visited us, and will have noticed the culture shock they experience in my country.
By David Kalume | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 20 August 2012 at 4:00 am
Russell Brand shouldn’t speak for everyone on drugs policies
So because it worked for him, Russell Brand is persuaded that abstinence-based recovery, rather than reliance on methadone, is the best way to help those with the “greedy disease” of opiate dependence.
By Susie McLean | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 16 August 2012 at 12:00 am
The Debate: Should testing on animals be banned?
Animal welfare charities reacted angrily to news in July that the number of animal experiments rose to a record high in Britain last year – but is the research necessary or ethically justified?
By Laura Davis | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 15 August 2012 at 10:23 am
For some children, PE lessons are far from enjoyable
At the height of Olympic fever, it’s all well and good to say that children should be doing more sport and that state schools should add more hours of PE into the curriculum, but I think we are overegging the pudding, here.
By Sophie Warnes | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 10 August 2012 at 3:03 pm
Should we regulate the way follow on milk is advertised?
When I recently heard of a petition to ban the advertising of follow on milk and breast milk substitutes to babies over six months, I initially thought it was Lactivist gone mad and a step too far from the pro breastfeeders.
By Lisa Watts | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 7 August 2012 at 2:31 pm
UK’s third most common lung disease is overlooked
Bronchiectasis, first described by Rene Laennec in 1819, is a common long term respiratory condition caused by permanently damaged airways. Over one in 1000 people in the UK now suffer from the disease.
By Dr Adam Hill | Health, Notebook | Monday, 6 August 2012 at 12:20 pm
Post AIDS 2012 – The race to save lives
The 19th International AIDS conference may have concluded last week but the work to really end AIDS continues.
By Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma | Health, Notebook | Friday, 3 August 2012 at 1:20 pm
Is MP Stephen Lloyd proud of what the Government has been doing on disability?
“I think,” he says, in the tone you’d use if someone was asking you this question a lot, “we’re doing the right thing. There are two million children growing up in this country in households where no one works. There are six or seven million people of working age who, for one reason or another, are on benefits.
By Christina Patterson | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 1 August 2012 at 2:00 am
How should you talk to children about terminal illness?
A recent story described how the parents of a 12-year-old boy, Adam Lewis, who’d been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor opted to tell their son about the tumor but not to disclose that it was terminal. Why? Because they wanted their son to be able to enjoy the year he had without the potentially paralyzing anxiety of knowing that his days were numbered.
By Joseph Nowinski | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 1 August 2012 at 1:00 am
Benefits and targets: Sickness and disability are not the same
“Do you have the potential to return to work?” states Chris Grayling, Minister for Employment. It seems a very reasonable question, and when the idea of Employment Support Allowance was initially mooted during the mid noughties at a time of high employment and economic boom it was an admirable aim.
By Kaliya Franklin | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 3:05 pm
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