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NHS Choices - Latest Health News

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  • Cold weather may increase blood pressure
    'Bad weather could raise your blood pressure and even kill you,' is the unnecessarily alarmist headline in the Daily Mail. It reports on a large, complex study that looked for any association between...
  • Could a mother's lack of iodine harm her child's IQ?
    “Mothers' diets may harm IQs of two babies in three,” warns The Independent. The newspaper reports on its front page that iodine deficiency is widespread among pregnant women. Iodine is recognised...
  • Claims vitamin B prevents Alzheimer's are unproven
    'Should you be taking vitamin B to protect against Alzheimer's?,' asks the Daily Mail. Its question is prompted by new research into whether a daily dose of vitamin B could reduce the loss of brain...
  • Sharing a bed with your baby ups risk of cot death
    "Bed-sharing 'raises cot death risk fivefold'," BBC News reports. The news has featured in much of the media, with headlines based on a large analysis of previous studies into the risk of cot death,...
  • Job stress may raise our 'bad cholesterol' levels
    'A stressful job really can kill you – by raising your cholesterol,' reports the Mail Online website. This headline is based on Spanish research that looked at the relationship between job stress and...
  • Vitamin D may help treat severe asthma
    ”Sunshine vitamin 'may treat asthma'”, BBC News informs us, as a new lab-based study suggests vitamin D could help control symptoms of severe asthma. Asthma is caused by inflammation of the airways,...
  • Rise in number of unpaid carers and young carers
    "Children are picking up the caring roles the state has abandoned," The Guardian says, while The Independent says that 180,000 children work as unpaid carers. These new figures come from the Office...
  • Time-lapse technique may boost success rate of IVF
    “IVF advance triples couples' chances of having a baby”, The Daily Telegraph reports. The innovation in question is actually based on an old imaging technique called time-lapse photography, where a...
  • Absent fathers linked to depression risk in girls
    “Study shows girls with absent fathers more likely to develop depression," the Mail Online has revealed. It reports on a large UK study that found that girls whose biological fathers were absent...
  • Human embryo stem cells cloning breakthrough
    "Human embryonic stem cells created from adult tissue for first time," The Guardian reports, while the Daily Mail's front page leads with the somewhat fanciful warning that new research raises the...