While smoking is becoming more and more marginalised, NHS figures show that as many as 70,000 births throughout England are still affected by smoking during pregnancy. While the overall smoking…
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With governments around the world looking at imposing taxes on sugary foods, we would do well to remember that many scientists suggest that we are primed to desire sugar at…
Online gaming is becoming an addictive problem and a recent study has shown that children who play video games twice a day are less likely to achieve five good GCSE…
A new study has warned that a third of all men currently under the age of 20 in China will eventually die prematurely if they do not give up smoking….
Life at university, it seems, is not as cool as many students think it might be. And, with record numbers of students beginning university this term, there are warnings of…
Many may envisage the life of a modern touring musician to be that of a glorified jetsetter but the reality is far from idyllic, according to a recent study. Depression,…
There are many ‘treatments’ for women undergoing menopause and a recent report shows that hypnotherapy can be a very effective way to overcome the effects of menopause – better than…
The state of our health in the United Kingdom is not all that good and the recently published Scottish Health Survey for 2014 lends strength to that claim. It shows…
Data from almost six million people adds to the growing evidence that smoking and type 2 diabetes are linked, according to research by an international team of scientists who pulled…
The pressure to respond immediately to texts or posts is causing teenagers to become more anxious and depressed, Scottish researchers have found, blaming this on the 24-hour demands of their…