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Marriage counselling is a ridiculous waste of NHS resourcesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Telegraph View A failing marriage is not a sign of an illness that needs to be cured. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 21, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: NHS marriage counselling Source Type: news

On the spot: travelling with a disabilityemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Elderly and infirm air passengers deserve better treatment says Joanna Symons. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: disabled limited mobility travellers Source Type: news

The doctor who died as a result of Labour's ISTCsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Dr Hubley's is just the most serious in a growing list of cases which raise serious concerns about the safety of 'independent sector treatment centres' writes Andrew Gilligan. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: john hubley new labour istcs nhs health Source Type: news

First human trials for stem cell blindness therapyemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The first human trials of a stem cell therapy for an eye disease that causes blindness in young people could start next year. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: blindness human trials stem cell fda Source Type: news

Lifting Kenyans out of poverty one dam at a timeemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Simon Maddrell quit a career in big business to found Excellent Development a charity that helps provide clean water to thousands of Kenyan farmers. Elizabeth Grice talks to him about his work. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Health Q&A: Crohn's diseaseemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Britain's leading health and wellbeing specialists answer your question. This week: Crohn's disease. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: health q & wellbeing health tips chrohn's disease gp yoga and pilates nutritional therapist Source Type: news

NHS says it's too expensive to keep you aliveemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
If we are to escape from dilemmas such as Nice's fateful decision on Nexavar it can only be by permitting additional revenue streams into the NHS argues Janet Daley. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: nexavar nice nhs healthcare Source Type: news

Nice's decision not to approve the liver cancer drug Nexavar is painful but necessaryemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The difficult truth is that Nexavar is an expensive drug that extends life by on average less than three months writes Rebecca Smith. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: nexavar .liver cancer drug Nice health NHS Source Type: news

Telegraph Christmas Charity Appeal 2009: Blissemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Thirty years ago a Daily Telegraph reader wrote to the letters page in response to an article about the need for more lifesaving equipment for babies born prematurely. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Bliss charity appeal christmas charity appeal telegraph telegraph christmas charity appeal Source Type: news

Antismoking vaccine could soon be availableemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Smokers could soon have access to an injectable vaccine to help them break the habit after a deal between GlaxoSmithKline and Nabi Pharmaceuticals which developed the drug. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: smoking vaccine GlaxoSmithKline Nabi Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

IVF couples face disease tests before each cycleemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Couples undergoing IVF could face higher bills after European regulators said they should be screened for diseases between each treatment cycle. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: ivrf cycle tests diseases Source Type: news

Yawning is part of what makes us humanemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Far from being bad manners yawning is a sign of our deep humanity says Steve Jones. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: yawning chasmology oxygen human Source Type: news

How to get a good divorceemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Amicable separation is often better for children than an unhappy marriage says Cristina Odone (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: divorce separation marriage cristina odone Source Type: news

I was brought up a Christian and my life revolves around church but now I fear I'm losing my faithemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Lesley Garner is contacted by a lifelong Christian struggling to hold on to her faith. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: christian faith church religion richard dawkins Source Type: news

Millionaire stockbroker campaigns for better NHS care for spinal injuriesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
A milionaire stockbroker and racehorse owner is launching a campaign to improve the care of spinal injury patients in the UK after his son was forced to seek private treatment following a snowboarding accident in which he broke his back. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 15, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: andy stewart spinal injuries Source Type: news

Scientists identify gene that can help you live to 100email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
A gene that can help you live to 100 has been identified by scientists. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 15, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Scientists identify a long life geneemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
A gene that can help you live to 100 has been identified by scientists. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 15, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Baby RB: 'right to life' boy dies in his parents' armsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Boy at the centre of a "right to life" legal battle died on Friday after doctors switched off his life support it has emerged. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 14, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Maternity guru Sheila Kitzinger says 'fairytale' expectations of childbirth end with dashed hopes for womenemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
New mothers are often consumed by guilt because they did not experience a "fairytale" version of childbirth one of Britain's leading maternity experts has warned. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 14, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: guru midwives sheila kitzinger caesareans Source Type: news

Gordon Brown backs 106yearold in care home fightemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The hopes of a 106yearold woman fighting eviction from her care home have been raised after an intervention from the Prime Minister. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 14, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: louisa watts 106 gordon brown trevor beattie Source Type: news

Baby images airbrushed by magazines to make them more perfectemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Magazine images of babies are being airbrushed to make the children look more attractive a leading editor has admitted. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 14, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: airbrushed babies magazine Mother and Baby perfect Practical Parenting retouch Source Type: news

When a tropical trip has a sting in the tailemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Easy and cheap foreign travel has seen an increase in the number of people bringing back tropical diseases. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: tropical diseases malaria yellow fever typhoid tetanus Source Type: news

Can mindaltering drugs have mental health benefits?email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD are making their way back into mainstream psychotherapy. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: lsd mdma ecstacy psychotherapy psychedelic drugs ocd post traumatic stress Source Type: news

Oppostional Defiance Disorder: why some children just can't help behaving badlyemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Children with ODD show patterns of negative and hostile behaviour that is impervious to the strictest disciplinary sanctions. But parental support progammes are working. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: ODD ADD Attention defecit disorder Prime Minister Source Type: news

Drunks are placing too high a burden on A&Eemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Finger on the pulse. Mobile units such as busses could be the best way to remove the treatment of drunk people from emergency departments. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: A & E max pemberton drunks Source Type: news

Long term relationships lead to healthier babiesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Women in longterm relationships appear to have healthier pregnancies and births claim scientists. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Weekend lieins for teenagers wards off obesityemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Teenagers lying in at the weekend might seem like laziness but it will actually help them stay slim and healthy claim scientists. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Weekend lieins ward off obesityemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Lying in bed at the weekends may seem like laziness but it will actually help you stay slim and healthy claim scientists. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How do you explain the hot burning sensation in my feet?email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Telegraph Readers' Clinic: send your health and wellbeing questions to our panel of experts. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: bunion feet pain burning sensation hammer toe peripheral neuropathy Source Type: news

Listen to the voices in your heademail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
In 10minute confidence booster this week: how to listen to - and silence - your inner critic. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: criticism confidence achieve pychologist Source Type: news

The diet on your doorstepemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
There are plenty of healthy homedelivered weightloss plans out there that will have you slim by Christmas. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Christmas diet wine carbohydrates GI dress size fat Source Type: news

The Beach House at Manufaru Maldivesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Spa Spy: our sleuth investigates the curative claims of wellbeing retreats around the world. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: spa therapy massage yoga retreat Maldives Source Type: news

Sorry Florence. No degree no jobemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The Government's latest proposals to improve care for patients will have the opposite effect - and leave nurses worse off says Theodore Dalrymple. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nurses Patient care NHS Nurse training NHS training Source Type: news

Modern pensioners less fit than their parentsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
People entering retirement are for the first time less fit than their parents were at the same age a new study suggests. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Obesity means pensioners less fit than their parentsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
People entering retirement are for the first time less fit than their parents were at the same age a new study suggests. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Longterm care still a postcode lotteryemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Despite attempts to reform the longterm care system problems are still endemic. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: long term care PCT care trust dementia Source Type: news

Longterm care: life is still a postcode lotteryemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Despite attempts to reform the longterm care system problems are still endemic. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Nursing reforms: profile of minister Ann Keenemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
As a registered nurse with 20 years experience on the ward Ann Keen has firsthand knowledge of the challenges facing the profession. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: ann keen nursing Source Type: news

Nursing factboxes: responsibilities and salaries of the NHS gradesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Nurses do not currently need degrees but must take extra training to climb the NHS ladder. Here is a guide to the major nursing levels starting with the most senior. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: nursing degree diploma Source Type: news

Scotland's superbug outbreak shows secret society is alive and wellemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
No fewer than five old people have died either directly or indirectly from an outbreak of Clostridium difficile at Ninewells Hospital in Dunde. Alan Cochrane asks how this could have happened. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Australian scientists to start 'breast regrowth' trialemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Scientists in Australia are preparing to begin trials of a revolutionary surgery that could enable cancer victims to regrow their breasts after undergoing a mastectomy. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: breast regrow surgery cancer Source Type: news

Fears over cancer cluster among 9/11 rescue workersemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
A series of recent deaths of New York police and fire officers who took part in the rescue operation at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks has prompted fears of a delayed epidemic of cancerrelated illness. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: cancer cluster ground zero 911 Source Type: news

Baby RB: parents prepare to say their final goodbyeemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The parents of Baby RB have spent the day at his bedside in a hospital intensive care unit as they prepare to say goodbye to him for the last time. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: baby rb high court right to life right to die Source Type: news

'I wouldn't wish Baby RB's life on anyone'email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Neil Patmore whose twoyeardaughter lives on a ventilator explains why Baby RB should have been given a chance to live (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: baby rb breathe on uk tracheotomy congential myasthenic syndrome cassandra jardine mitochondrial disease Source Type: news

'Three parent babies' take a step closer to realityemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Scientists are a step closer to producing a controversial "three parent baby" after they successfully fertilised an egg with two biological mothers. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pessimists more likely to avoid going to the dentistemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Feeling down in the mouth can let your mouth down researchers have found. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The war was over but Spanish Flu would kill millions moreemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
On Armistice Day 1918 Britain was in the grip of Spanish Flu which could kill its victims in hours says Juliet Nicolson. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: war spanish flu world war 1 first world warm armistice day Source Type: news

NHS pays £1m to help grit council's roadsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
An NHS trust has agreed to pay £1 million to help grit the roads arguing that the handout will save lives. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 10, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Baby RB will be allowed to die after father withdraws oppositionemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Boy to be allowed to die after father withdraws opposition to the mother's plea for life support machine to be turned off. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 10, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: baby rb high court right to life right to die Source Type: news