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Today the BBC reported that the swine flu virus first detected in Mexico can no longer be contained and countries should focus on mitigating its effects,according to a top UN official said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8021827.stm
Health experts say the virus comes from the same strain that causes seasonal outbreaks in humans but also contains genetic material from versions of [...]

Today, the BBC reported the news of the 500,000th heart pacemaker being fitted, and the advances in technology that have seen it go from the size of a pram wheel to smaller than a matchbox. The pacemaker is designed to resychronize heart muscle function generally after heart attacks, or if there is an arrhythmia (out [...]

A BBC report on 9 April 2009, cites the rise in worldwide allergies to the increase in ‘westernisation’ of lifestyle and diet http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7989873.stm. Indigenuous peoples and western cultures around the world are being studied, including India, where there is a growing middle class who have adopted a western lifestyle and diet, and it is in this group that [...]

According to a BBC report – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7968734.stm, the government would like to offer 40-74 years to visit their GP surgeries for a check up, in order to prevent deaths from heart attacks and strokes.
On the surface this seems a sensible thing to propose, but when you realise that GPs are generally far too busy to [...]

A BBC report http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7942479.stm details a research study that apparently found links between eating red meat and increased cancer. However it also reported that those people on a vegetarian diet, had no less risk of colo rectal cancer (previously linked with eating too much red meat).
This seems rather confusing, until you realise that, the study does not [...]