“The rising numbers of swine flu cases mean trying to contain the virus is no longer an option, the government says. Andy Burnham, the health secretary in England, said: ‘The national focus will be on treating the increasing numbers affected by swine flu. Cases are doubling every week and on this trend we could see over [...]
“In preparation for a potential heatwave this summer, people need to make sure they have a fair weather friend they can call on for aid, officials advise”. The Met Office are apparently not quite sure yet whether we’re actually going to get a serious disaster-level heatwave like we had in (was it 2006?), but they [...]
New cases of the deadly swine flu virus have been confirmed as far afield as New Zealand and Israel, as the UN warns it cannot be contained. The US, Canada, Spain and Britain confirmed cases earlier but no deaths have been reported outside Mexico, where the virus was first reported. From the way the news [...]
“Religious groups should fund their own presence in UK hospitals and save the NHS some £40m per year, the National Secular Society (NSS) suggests. The organisation of non-believers says such money would be better spent on ‘much needed’ nurses or cleaners. The NSS said it contacted 233 acute and mental health trusts which spent a [...]
“Wolfing down meals may be enough to nearly double a person’s risk of being overweight, Japanese research suggests. Those, who, in addition to wolfing down their meals, tended to eat until they felt full, were more than three times more likely to be overweight”. So basically, ‘research shows’ that if you eat quickly, you eat [...]