Spend a bit of time browsing the internet for information about health conditions and you’ll eventually run across pages claiming that cannabis is the cure for everything from chronic pain to cancer, epilepsy to multiple sclerosis. Although these pages may boast lists of tens or even hundreds of scientific papers claiming to prove that ‘weed […]
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As part of our regular series on the risks of getting common chronic diseases, we look at the risk of getting cancer. Cancer is such a common illness now that it has been estimated that more than 1 in 3 people (33 per cent) will develop cancer at some point in their lifetime, according to MacMillan […]
Men and women of the future will be feeling the effects of age-related health problems later in life, according to the Office for National Statistics. Women of the future, on average, will have 64 years to enjoy unfettered good health, although men will have a little less time with the ‘best of health’ coming to an end […]
In an age where medicine can do more than ever before to delay dying, is death sometimes now seen as failure in the medical profession? Failure to diagnose soon enough, failure to prescribe the correct treatment, failure to discover a radical new therapy? Or is death seen by some as a treatment choice? An ‘opt-out’ […]
They may be prickly to the touch and bitter to the taste, but cacti, and other spiky desert plants, have long been credited with many amazing healing properties. Weight loss: Hoodia gordonii is a huge six foot high succulent which can has been hailed as Nature’s slimming aid. The plant, which is covered with spines […]
Scientists have revealed that a key molecule in breast and lung cancer cells can help switch off the cancers’ ability to spread around the body. The findings by researchers at Imperial College London, published in the journal EMBO Reports, may help scientists develop treatments that prevent cancer travelling around the body – or produce some kind of test […]
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