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15-minute daily exercise is 'bare minimum for health'
Just 15 minutes of exercise a day can boost life expectancy by three years and cut death risk by 14%, research from Taiwan suggests. Experts in The Lancet say this is the least amount of activity an adult can do to gain any health benefit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14526853
Children of obese mothers face higher risk of asthma and wheezing
Women who are obese or overweight before they get pregnant are more likely to have children who suffer wheezing or asthma. The rise in risk ranges from 20 to 30 per cent, compared with women who have a healthy pre-pregnancy weight.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...r-risk-asthma-wheezing.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Coffee suncream could slow skin cancer
Applying caffeine to the skin in sunny weather may protect against a type of skin cancer, US researchers hope. Experiments on mice, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that caffeine prevents UV damage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14530144
The doctor will see you now: from 20 miles away
Technology is changing the way that stroke patients receive life-saving treatment...When Victoria Oatham suffered a stroke earlier this year at the age of 20, a senior consultant was immediately on hand to make sure she got the right treatment.
http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/265215/The-doctor-will-see-you-now-from-20-miles-away
Man 'wins gastric bypass' fight
A man who was planning to take his case for obesity surgery to the European Court of Human Rights, has now been told he can have a gastric bypass. Tom Condliff, who weighs 22 stone, made a second request for the operation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14534506
Just 15 minutes of exercise a day can boost life expectancy by three years and cut death risk by 14%, research from Taiwan suggests. Experts in The Lancet say this is the least amount of activity an adult can do to gain any health benefit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14526853
Children of obese mothers face higher risk of asthma and wheezing
Women who are obese or overweight before they get pregnant are more likely to have children who suffer wheezing or asthma. The rise in risk ranges from 20 to 30 per cent, compared with women who have a healthy pre-pregnancy weight.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...r-risk-asthma-wheezing.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Coffee suncream could slow skin cancer
Applying caffeine to the skin in sunny weather may protect against a type of skin cancer, US researchers hope. Experiments on mice, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that caffeine prevents UV damage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14530144
The doctor will see you now: from 20 miles away
Technology is changing the way that stroke patients receive life-saving treatment...When Victoria Oatham suffered a stroke earlier this year at the age of 20, a senior consultant was immediately on hand to make sure she got the right treatment.
http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/265215/The-doctor-will-see-you-now-from-20-miles-away
Man 'wins gastric bypass' fight
A man who was planning to take his case for obesity surgery to the European Court of Human Rights, has now been told he can have a gastric bypass. Tom Condliff, who weighs 22 stone, made a second request for the operation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14534506