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Should healthy Britons be given blood pressure tablets?

With one in four British adults suffering from high blood pressure claiming 75,000 lives a year, is it time to give healthy people pills to save them from heart attack and stroke New research recommends giving healthy people anti blood pressure tablets   Oxford researchers found the risk of heart attack or stroke plummets with pills […]

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HEALTH NOTES: Britons have an average of seven fillings

HEALTH NOTES: Britons have an average of seven fillings and DIY eye checks… on a phone app The average UK adult has had no fewer than seven fillings, according to new research.  It’s more than twice the number than the average American, who has just three. According to figures collated by international dental website dentaly.org, one […]

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Britons evacuated from Wuhan will be held in Milton Keynes

Britons on Sunday evacuation flight from coronavirus-hit Wuhan will be held in isolation at a Milton Keynes conference centre for 14 days – as government ‘plans China travel ban in a week’ Around 150 Britons being flown back from the coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan on Sunday will be quarantined  South Central Ambulance Service said that […]

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Hundreds of obese Britons have been ‘fat shamed by the NHS’

NHS is forced to apologise after hundreds of obese Britons complain they have been ‘fat-shamed’ by health professionals Patients filed a total of 332 complaints to the NHS over three year Mother was reportedly threatened to be reported over her son’s weight issues  Obesity expert warns patients should ‘face the truth’ that ‘being fat is deadly’ […]