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Ban Unhealthy Foods In Hospitals To Fight Obesity The cardiologist believes that by doing so, it is a way of starting to get the medical profession's own "house in order" in an attempt to stem the increasing issue of obesity amongst the UK population. Dr. Malhotra wrote in British Medical Journal: "An ...

Babies with a father and two mothers get green light from chief medical officer British babies could soon be the first in the world to have three parents – despite fears that a law change could pave the way for 'designer babies'. The chief medical officer has agreed that DNA from a mother and father can be combined with DNA from a  ...

Growth in UK creative campaigns for medical devices and hospital equipment Tony Chant, Managing Director of Eurocom Healthcare Communications was interviewed at the recent MEDTEC UK conference in London, and commented on Eurocom's growing experience of developing creative campaigns for medical devices. "During the  ...

Doctors admit problems with Liverpool pathway for dying Members of the British Medical Association said dying patients may have been put on the Liverpool Care Pathway when it was not appropriate because hospitals were offered financial incentives to use it. They also said some patients had stayed on it for  ...

Josh is the Labour Party's chosen one to fight for Valley “Through my work fighting UK poverty , I've already achieved more changes to the law from outside Parliament than Calder Valley's current Tory MP Craig Whittaker has managed from inside it. “I've had enough of David Cameron's constant attack on our ...

Labour 'failed on pay gap' but improved levels of poverty , healthcare and teaching Labour's 13 years in power delivered major improvements in public services and reduced social inequality but failed to tackle the pay gap between the rich and the poor, according to researchers. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown left the coalition with a ...

Government urged to act as food poverty hits 18% of UK Chris Bush, Tesco's UK managing director, last night said: "As a food retailer we want to do all we can to help tackle food poverty and support families facing serious financial pressures. "This week's collection is a fantastic opportunity to help ...

County's housing ladder "one of steepest to get on" Homeless charity Shelter found that it takes the average UK family 12 years to save up for a home of their own but in Hereford that figure rises to 15. The reason for this, Shelter says, is that the gap between income and house prices is greater here ...

Austerity: the elderly can be part of the solution to this economic mess Will Hutton is rightly appalled by the stupidity of George Osborne and the coalition's economic policies, which even Vince Cable and the Lib Dems are now beginning to realise are taking us in an accelerating downward spiral ("Blame austerity, not old ...

300 buried in pauper's graves The majority of the deceased were older, in their late 60s, 70s or 80s, with the most elderly aged 103. Charity Age UK has branded it 'unacceptable' that so many elderly people die in isolation. But several younger people were also given public health ...

Loneliness issues must be addressed It affects nearly 3 million older people across England . Because of this, the prevention of loneliness should be a priority for those making decisions about our health and wellbeing locally. We recently looked at the priorities of every health and ...

Twitter Glitch Led to Baldwin's Homophobic Meltdown A Twitter bug may have prompted a UK Daily Mail reporter to allege Alec Baldwin's wife tweeted during James Gandolfini's funeral on Thursday. This provoked an expletive-laden, violent, and anti-gay series of tweets from the actor, who has repeatedly ...

How Terence Rattigan was branded a 'homo' and had his knighthood ...  The plays of Sir Terence Rattigan are known as tirades against what he saw as the sexual hypocrisy of the British Establishment. Now newly released papers reveal his homosexuality nearly cost him a place on ... It is possible officials may ...

Gerald Warner: Same-sex marriage thwarts democracy Most notoriously, on 27 March 2012, the Council of Europe held its first ever closed conference, excluding the public, while the then UK “equalities minister” Lynne Featherstone pledged the implementation of same-sex marriage in Britain by June this ...

HIV /Aids drugs: WHO to recommend earlier treatment New guidelines for HIV treatment could see millions more people in developing countries getting life-saving medicine. The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending that patients start taking medication at a much earlier stage of the disease.

AIDS New Novel Approach Treatment End to Pandemic? In America, intravenous drug users account for about one in 13 new HIV cases, but they make up to about 80 percent in Eastern Europe and central Asia. Approximately, 96,000 people are currently living with HIV in the UK and 22,600 of them are unaware ...

Apprenticeships championed to help 'lost generation' “In the UK one of the biggest challenges to sustainable livelihoods today is youth unemployment . It has been shown that extended unemployment in youth damages employment prospects in later life, and those coming from households where no adult works  ...

Eurozone crisis: Unemployment rate hits another record high - live The country breakdown showed that the increase in unemployment was broadly-based, with Cyprus again standing out negatively (16.3% versus 15.8% previously) but Germany and Austria bucking the trend of increased unemployment . Looking ahead, an end to ...

Johnson 'delighted' to support Pride in London "As befits a city with a large LGBT population, London hosts one of the biggest events of the year and I am delighted to support the festivities, which attract people from across the UK and beyond." London Mayor Boris Johnson. "As the parade shows, it ...

Are these the 100 most powerful LGBT people in the world? Other names will be less familiar to non- British people – the list was produced by Square Peg Media, a UK -based gay and lesbian publisher and most of the international names are American, with a smattering of Europeans. Read the whole list here:.

Angels , brides and some very risque nuns : Colourful scenes at London's ... Organisers wanted to celebrate the achievement of equal marriage in the UK , and other countries, while recognising the love and support within the LGBT community and their friends and families. The parade also gave supporters and campaigners to show  ...

TUC praises 'dedicated' gay rights movement LGBT communities were among the hardest hit by the coalition's brutal austerity measures and cuts to policing meant that fewer resources would be dedicated to tackling hate crime. Together, however, she was convinced that the trade union movement could  ...

Vladimir Putin signs anti- gay propaganda bill The anti-propaganda law introduces fines of up to 5,000 rubles ($156) for citizens who disseminate information aimed at minors "directed at forming nontraditional sexual setup" or which may cause a "distorted understanding" that gay and heterosexual ...

One Direction labelled "perverts" by anti- gay Westboro Baptist Church One Direction were described as "a perfect representation of this filthy world and the sin-chasing, fag-enabling, God-hating, Christ-rejecting UK " by the protesters. They continued: "These freaks and their fans think it's funny for these five perverts ...

Embassy flies flag for Gay Pride week AS THOUSANDS of Gay Pride marchers took to the streets in Paris at the weekend, the British Embassy flew the homosexual movement's rainbow flag above the embassy door. Tens of thousands of marchers marked the Gay Pride parade just two months  ...

LGBT rallies signal rejuvenated fight for Pennsylvania equality “As you all know, history was made today and for many of us, this is something we've been waiting for for a lifetime,” Brian Green, director of SafeGuards LGBT Health Resource Center in Philadelphia, told a crowd of about 100 at Independence Mall ...

Discrimination against LGBT people still rife, says Law Society "Despite legal protections in place, gay inequality remains rife in the UK . A tendency to discriminate against LGBT people is present in everyday areas of life – in the workplace, in the playground, at the sports arena. This is unacceptable ...

Dozens arrested at Russia gay pride Russian police have arrested several gay rights activists and Russian nationalists who confronted them at a rally declared illegal under a new law against " gay propaganda". Also in this Section. Syrian forces attack rebels in Homs · Taliban 'won't stop ...

Courts lift ban on gay marriage in California On a balcony overlooking the grand staircase at City Hall, an ornate space that has long been a magnet for couples seeking to get married, the couple whose case sparked this week's Supreme Court decision exchanged vows in a ceremony officiated by state  ...

Thrown out of Africa for staging a gay play – but desperate to return again After staging the first play in Uganda which addressed the theme of homosexuality , The River and the Mountain, the British film producer was arrested and deported back to the UK without a proper police investigation or court hearing. He left behind two  ...

Plaintiffs in US Supreme Court gay marriage battle wed in San Francisco State Attorney General Kamala Harris presided at the wedding of Kris Perry and Sandy Stier as hundreds of supporters at San Francisco City Hall looked on and cheered. The couple sued to overturn the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban along with ...