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Postnatal depression is back in the news after singer Adele has told of her battle with postnatal depression following the birth of her son, Angelo. She told Vanity Fair magazine…

Celebrities and sports stars with mental health issues continue to make the news but statistics show that one in four people in the UK are expected to experience a mental…

A recent study published in the Lancet shows if doctors spend 30 seconds telling patients they need to lose weight, this can have a dramatic impact. And, it revealed, some…

Parents searching for school places for their children in England are used to scouring league tables for information as to what is a good school but a call has been…

Mental health issues like anxiety, stress and depression seem to be making news headlines more and more in recent days with former world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury being the…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has added its support to countries which place a ‘sugar tax’ on soft drinks, saying that raising prices by 20% or more results in lower…

Almost half (45%) of young people are checking their mobile phones after they have gone to bed, a recent poll suggests, showing that one in 10 of 2,750 11-18 year…

“Smoking tobacco is the most harmful way that people can get their nicotine fix,” says Dr Joanna Miller of a London-based Stop Smoking Service in a Times article about Stoptober…

As the UK’s obesity problem continues to grow, it seems the Conservative Party will soon be calling for portion control, and calorie reduction, if Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt gets his…

Disturbing new data from NHS Digital shows that one in five women reported a common mental disorder such as anxiety and depression in 2014, compared with one in eight men….