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Health minister Ann Keen has accused media commentators of sexism following yesterday’s coverage about nursing becoming a all-graduate profession.

Thousands of lives have been saved by increased intensive care funding and the introduction of treatment guidelines, research suggests.

Antipsychotic drugs intended to treat schizophrenia are reportedly being used to “chemically cosh” elderly dementia patients.

Anti-aging can be a difficult topic to address because it has a number of different common meanings and connotations. Each is championed by a particular group or coalition of interests which define their terms in ways that can make the subject confusing. For the scientific community, anti-aging research refers exclusively to slowing, preventing, or reversing […]

Someone once said that all human beings, from the earliest age, are on a slow road to death. By that it was meant that we have a limited lifespan which eventually ends, though many young people don’t seem to realize it. Fact is, everything around us has limitations – beginnings and [...]

I just came back from a ten day seminar with a very enlightened view of travelling and health. Let me tell you, when you get 300 people in a conference room and two or three of them have a cold, an interesting phenomenon happens: quite a few in the room will get sick within the [...]

A while back I spoke to a distressed senior who was told that his condition of general weakness and bodily pain was the inevitable result of aging. Now naturally, I disagree with such simple advice, as it is not rooted in wisdom. Where does the idea come from that age takes away [...]

During a lively debate on nutrition, a good friend the other day raised the link between eggs and cholesterol. This subject is one of curiosity because rather than being a culprit of disease, eggs are actually very good for us. First, we have to understand that cholesterol is not necessarily bad. Humans need it to [...]