The UK’s obesity epidemic – the challenge
Obesity cuts life expectancy by up to ten years, and costs the UK £6.1 billion per year to treat. It’s a huge problem – according to…
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Female doctors show more empathy, but at a cost to their mental well-being
Female doctors show more empathy than male doctors. They ask their patients more questions, including questions about emotions and feelings, and they spend more time talking…
Britain’s obesity epidemic explored in two new BBC programmes
According to the Health Survey for England obesity levels in England have nearly doubled in the last 25 years, and nearly two thirds of adults were overweight or obese…
Why nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment
A lack of essential nutrients is known to contribute to the onset of poor mental health in people suffering from anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia…
“Nurses need better support,” says OU Head of Nursing
Nurses must be given support from NHS managers to learn while they earn as part of a new drive to reverse the debilitating exodus from the…
Still a stigma: Abortion 50 years on
Fifty years on from from the 1967 Abortion Act, OU academic and researcher in abortion policy, politics and teenage pregnancy, Dr Lesley Hoggart, examines why there is…
Why asking what causes autism is the wrong question
The animal rights charity PETA recently made a link between autism and drinking cow’s milk. The article on its website discussed research that linked a diary-free…
Top tips on getting to sleep the night before the big day
Getting to sleep before a big day is never going to be simple. But it can be much easier if you manage your sleep (and your…
How to settle social care funding once and for all
Branding it a “dementia tax” was inspired – opponents of the Conservative Party’s election manifesto railed against its fundamentally unfair proposals for dealing with the social…
“Could painkillers increase our risk of a heart attack?” OU academic explains
Research by the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre, published in The British Medical Journal (BMJ), suggests that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) painkillers could increase the risk…
