Inactive Lifestyles Costs UK Health Service £1 billion Per Year
Physical inactivity costs the UK health service in excess of £1 billion every year, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Read MorePhysical inactivity costs the UK health service in excess of £1 billion every year, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Read MoreCannabis plants with an estimated street value of £630,000 have been seized across Strathclyde. More than 2,000 plants were recovered from high value houses in Airdrie, Robroyston, Cambuslang, Clydebank, Battlefield and Budhill, in Glasgow.
Read MoreA heroin addict has been jailed for three months for leaving a child locked in an empty house and starving him for 24 hours. Rebecca Brister told Sheriff Robert McCreadie she wanted to be locked up to receive help for her addiction.
Read MoreA farm manager has admitted having sex with a 12-year-old girl he was teaching to horse-ride. The High Court in Glasgow heard that 49-year-old Peter Bryant also admitted having sex with a 15-year-old girl.
Read MoreThousands of young people with diabetes could go blind before the age of 40, a conference will be told today. The “startling and deeply worrying” findings will be presented at the Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference at the SECC in Glasgow. It is the UK’s largest with 3000 healthcare professionals due to attend.
Read MoreA children’s nursery, where youngsters were force-fed out-of-date food, was yesterday facing possible closure following a detailed investigation by the Care Commission. Officers from the welfare watchdog were called in to investigate the All Stars Nursery in the Woodside area of Aberdeen following complaints about the facility, understood to have been made by a number of worried parents.
Read MoreA row has broken out over a large mural depicting a Guantanamo Bay prisoner which has appeared on the side of a building in Angus. Miki Warren, 18, said she painted the controversial artwork to highlight the plight of suspected terrorists being held at the US camp in Cuba.
Read MoreMore than 5,000 charities are to be taken off the official register because they have not contacted the regulator before the deadline. They will lose the benefits of charitable status and the right to call themselves charities.
Read MorePatients are set to be able to look at their medical records on their home computer, it has been announced. The plan was set out by Connecting For Health, which is overseeing the introduction of the new NHS IT system – The Spine – which will cover England.
Read MoreThe National Autistic Society (NAS) has launched a brand new web resource, Signpost, tailored specifically for individuals with autism, their parents and carers, and aimed at providing them with vital information that could change their lives.
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