Doctors to prescribe bicycles as part of £2billion drive to tackle obesity

Bicycles will be prescribed by doctors for patients and all Britons will be offered free training on how to ride in a £2billion drive to get fat Britain ‘on its bike’. Free repair vouchers worth £50 will be handed out and there will be a massive expansion of cycle lanes as part of a revolution … Read more

Family doctors will be ‘weight coaches’ as part of Boris Johnson’s fight against obesity

Family doctors will be ‘weight coaches’ and sweets will be BANNED at checkouts as part of Boris Johnson’s fight against obesity GPs will be trained to help patients lose weight in Government anti-obesity drive Obese patients will be referred for weight management classes in the new plans Ministers hope the campaign will help people take … Read more

Family doctors will be ‘weight coaches’ as part of Boris Johnson’s fight against obesity

Family doctors will be ‘weight coaches’ and sweets will be BANNED at checkouts as part of Boris Johnson’s fight against obesity GPs will be trained to help patients lose weight in Government anti-obesity drive Obese patients will be referred for weight management classes in the new plans Ministers hope the campaign will help people take … Read more

Grey’s Anatomy season 17 will ‘address coronavirus pandemic’ and writers are meeting with doctors

Grey’s Anatomy season 17 will ‘address coronavirus pandemic’ and writers are already meeting with doctors to discuss real life cases: ‘They’re talking about it as war’ By Caitlyn Becker For Dailymail.com Published: 18:56 BST, 21 July 2020 | Updated: 19:14 BST, 21 July 2020 The upcoming season of Grey’s Anatomy will take on the current … Read more

Kate Garraway told to ‘get on with her life and return to work’ by doctors

Kate Garraway has admitted doctors have told her she must not put her ‘life on pause’ as her husband Derek Draper continues to battle coronavirus. The ITV presenter has been advised to ‘get on with her life’ and get back some normality for herself and her two children Darcey, 14, and Billy, 11, while Derek … Read more

Kate Garraway told to ‘get on with her life and return to work’ by doctors

Kate Garraway has admitted her husband’s doctors have told her she must not put her ‘life on pause’ as her husband Derek Draper continues to battle coronavirus. The ITV presenter has been advised to ‘get on with her life’ and get back some normality for herself and her two children Darcey, 14, and Billy, 11, … Read more

Prince Charles pays tribute to ‘costly sacrifices’ made by doctors and nurses during coronavirus

Prince Charles today pays tribute to the ‘costly sacrifices’ made by doctors, nurses and paramedics during the coronavirus outbreak as he marks the 72nd anniversary of the NHS. Ahead of this evening’s 5pm ‘clap for the NHS’ – reprising the ‘clap for carers’ that swept the UK in lockdown – buildings across the country turned blue … Read more

Mother, 26, died from skin cancer after doctors told her the mole was ‘nothing to worry about’

A mother-of-two died from skin cancer after she was assured by doctors that the mole on her back was ‘nothing to worry about’, and told she was just ‘anxious and stressed’ from juggling work with raising her children. Zoe Panayi, 26, from Newport, Isle of Wight, began to feel unwell with a pain under her ribs … Read more

Baby girl born with no limbs due to rare genetic disorder leaves doctors and family baffled in India

Baby girl born with no arms or legs due to a rare genetic disorder leaves doctors and family baffled in India Mother, reported to be 28, gave birth to a baby girl with no limbs yesterday  She was born in the Sakla village of Sironj Tehsil in the Vidisha district of India  Has rare genetic … Read more

Doctors raise concerns over the government’s ‘ad hoc’ Covid-19 test and trace system

Number 10’s ‘ad hoc’ Covid-19 test, track and trace scheme relies too heavily on private companies and will have missed thousands of cases, leading doctors fear. In a letter published in the British Medical Journal, three public health experts questioned why ministers chose to create a new system when a ‘straightforward’ one already existed. Professor … Read more