Bloated, blue-collar Americans - gorged on diets of fries and burgers, but denied their share of US riches - are bringing the nation’s steady rise in life expectancy to a grinding halt.
Twenty years ago, the US, the richest nation on the planet, led the world’s longevity league. Today, American women rank only 19th, while males […]

On one side of the picture a sleeping woman lies sprawled across her sofa in a dressing gown. The other side shows an x-ray of her legs marked with a glowing red disc revealing a potentially lethal blood clot. Emblazoned underneath in large letters is the question: ‘Do you have killer legs?’
This alarming message begins […]

Dutch scientists have confirmed that red wine is healthier than an alcopop. A binge drinking experiment showed those who hit the bottle might do better to choose Cotes du Rhone over health
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Twenty healthy medicine hat news paper drank six glasses of red wine or six glasses of Bacardi Breezer in three hours. Blood samples were […]

Stressed-out Spaniards are being offered the opportunity to smash their way back to inner peace with the aid of a sledgehammer and a scrapyard full of abandoned cars.
They are calling it “medicine hat news paper
therapy”, an innovative way to rid yourself of the tension caused by an overdemanding boss or complaining clients.
The destructoterapia sessions […]

American regulators yesterday tried to restore confidence in the battered drugs industry by announcing the formation of an independent board to monitor the safety of drugs on the market. The move comes on the eve of a crucial hearing to investigate certain painkilling drugs.
The Food and Drug Medicine
appears to be emergency medicine news the […]

Carrying a few extra pounds may not be as bad for your life expectancy as was previously thought, US researchers suggested yesterday.
Overweight people have a lower risk of early death than those whose weight is regarded as normal, according to a study of weight and mortality in the US in 2000.
The figures show that underweight […]

Man does not live on bread alone, but Americans have become increasingly reliant on doughy carbohydrates in their diet. Now many in a rapidly expanding country are asking: “What Would Jesus Eat?”
That is the title of one of a growing number of Christian diet plans crowding the lifestyle shelves of mainstream bookshops. Other bestsellers include […]

Farooq Hussain had never thought of visiting Mexico before he was diagnosed with stage four cancer in March. Now the 32-year-old Leeds builder has come to this border city in search of treatment to save his life.
“I’m a desperate man trying to cling on to hope,” he says with an embarrassed grin as he mulls […]

A global taskforce should be urgently formed to tackle a potential influenza pandemic that could affect 20% of the world’s population, trigger economic disaster and kill millions, experts warned today.
A report in scientific journal Nature gives a fearful assessment of the huge impact a pandemic could have on the world, with an estimate that more […]

A leading scientist warned yesterday that the avian flu virus is on the point of mutating into a pandemic disease and says that current estimates that such a pandemic could cause 7.5m deaths may understate the threat.
His warnings come as experts writing in today’s edition of Nature voice concerns about the world’s inability to manufacture […]