Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

It has been a conflicting debate for some time, but now, the most in depth investigation into the true health benefits of taking multivitamin supplements has revealed that there aren’t any for middle aged women taking them - other than having vitamin enriched urine.
Almost 162,000 American women aged between 50 and 79 volunteered to divulge [...]

A new survey has revealed worrying figures showing that dining out for a slap up meal at some restaurants is posing a significant threat to our health due to the food having dangerously high salt levels in it.
In the survey 47 different main courses were analysed and results showed that as many as three-quarters
of [...]

The Conservative Party have announced that the NHS are set to spend over £700 million on negligence payments next year.

Next year’s payments of £713 million is nearly double this year’s bill of £396 million and will drain as much as a third of the additional funding hospitals will receive.
Shadow Health Minister Mark Simmonds stated that [...]

A doctor responsible for ending the life of an intensive care patient who died after she injected her with an adrenaline shot against the advice of her colleagues has been found guilty of manslaughter.

Priya Ramnath from India was handed a suspended six-month jail sentence at Birmingham Crown Court after being convicted of killing Patricia Leighton [...]

Medical advances have seen an innovative new technique arrive in the UK this week as a robotic radiotherapy machine that is built to treat cancer will be used for the first time in this country.

The machine is known as a Cyberknife and costs a cool £2.5 million to make. It works by tracing the movement [...]

The amount of people suffering from measles went up a colossal third last year - which brings it to the highest total since people began recording numbers of those with the condition.

In England and Wales last year a total of 1,348 people were recorded to contract the disease - that is 36 per cent more [...]

Doctors have today announced that as many as one child ever week is having adverse effects on the hearing, including deafness, as a result of antibiotic treatment.

Children who already have a sensitivity to strong antibiotics have a higher chance of developing deafness. Such antibiotics are often used to treat infections in premature baby units.
Researchers at [...]

Health Secretary Alan Johnson has confirmed that all care homes and hospitals across England will be required to have a doctor specifically assigned to them to ensure dementia sufferers are well looked after.

GP’s will obtain special training in order to recognise the early onset of dementia, and so-called “memory clinics” will be created in every [...]

Today, Britain’s most senior radiologist has advised that patients are at risk of dying unnecessarily due to a lack of modern X-ray facilities at hospital.
Professor Andy Adam, president of th Royal College of Radiologists commented that nine out of 10 hospitals cannot provide sufficient trained staff and equipment to provide interventional radiology, which can save [...]

Scientists have revealed that a new technique has been developed to transplant stem cells into multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferers, with results seeing a slowing down and in some cases reversal of the disease. It is the best result stem cell research into MS has seen in ten years.

MS affects over 85,000 people in the UK [...]