Helping You to Help Yourself

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BBC report today – (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8035241.stm )
Almost 19,000 people a year in the UK are diagnosed with cancer that could have been prevented if they were a healthy weight, an expert says.
Professor Martin Wiseman said if everyone had a body mass index (BMI) under 25 it would make a big dent in the incidence of cancer. [...]

From www.avaaz.org
 Evidence is emerging that traces swine flu to giant factory pig farms that are dirty, dangerous, and inhumane. Sign the petition to the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization to investigate and regulate these threats to our health:
No-one yet knows whether swine flu will become a global pandemic, but it is [...]

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 [...]

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