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Feet home to more than 100 fungi
22nd May 2013
Fungi live all over the human body but their favourite spots are the heel, under toenails and between the toes, according to a US study.
A&E threat to Royal Glamorgan
22nd May 2013
The Royal Glamorgan hospital in Llantrisant could stop treating the most serious accident and emergency cases as part of a major NHS shake-up in south Wales.
Fitness-for-work tests unfair on people with mental health problems, court says
22nd May 2013
Society: Mental health | guardian.co.uk
Work capability assessments place those with mental health conditions at substantial disadvantage, judge concludesThe fitness-for-work test used to determine whether hundreds of thousands of people are eligible to claim sickness benefits substantially disadvantages people with mental health conditions, a court has ruled, in a decision hailed as a victory by mental health charities.A tribunal judge ruled that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had breached its duties to make "reasonable adjustments" under the Equality Act to ensure that people with mental health problems are treated fairly by the system.This failure meant that claimants with mental health problems were placed ...
Two win sickness benefit challenge
22nd May 2013
Two people with mental health problems win their legal challenge after claiming the government test for sickness benefit would discriminate against them.
Cold weather may increase blood pressure
22nd May 2013
NHS Choices: Behind the headlines
'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 changes in weather and blood pressure rates. The research focused on patients at a blood pressure clinic in Glasgow and looked at two consecutive visits the patients made within a 12-month period. The researchers combined these findings with Met Office weather data from the time of these visits to assess whether changes in patients' blood pressure were related to changes in the weather. They found that decreases ...
Mental health: the gender divide
22nd May 2013
Society: Mental health | guardian.co.uk
Analysis by a clinical psychologist at Oxford University has shed new light on the gender disparity in mental health. How great are the differences between men and women? Take our quiz to find outChris CrossJames Ball
A disease called Richard? Wagner as mental health menace
22nd May 2013
Society: Mental health | guardian.co.uk
In his time the composer's 'dangerously stimulating' music was blamed for melancholy, hysteria, hypnosis and even triggering orgasmReports may seem far-fetched that a German production of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser, feted as a highlight of the 200th-anniversary celebrations of his birth this month, have taken such a heavy psychological toll on members of the Düsseldorf audience that some have needed medical attention.But in his day, the German composer was held responsible for a lot more than fainting and heart palpitations: his works were viewed as a threat not only to the health of musicians and listeners but also to any society ...
Feeling worthless, hopeless … who'd be a university student in Britain? | Holly Baxter
22nd May 2013
Society: Mental health | guardian.co.uk
Mental health among students is not good, according to an NUS survey – little wonder, when their situation today is so dismalBeing a student is hard, according to the latest study from the National Union of Students. Specifically, it's hard on your mental health: 80% of the 1,200 UK students surveyed reported feeling stressed, with 55% experiencing anxiety and 50% suffering from insomnia or sleeping problems. One in 10 reported "suicidal feelings" and, perhaps most poignantly, 40% of the sample reported feelings of "worthlessness" or "hopelessness".Getting into university is an increasingly difficult affair, which explains why we simultaneously celebrate and ...
Could a mother's lack of iodine harm her child's IQ?
22nd May 2013
NHS Choices: Behind the headlines
“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 to play a role in the healthy development of the baby’s brain and nervous system while in the womb and the World Health Organization recommends that pregnant women eat iodine-rich foods. Severe lack of iodine is one of the leading causes of brain damage in the developing world. But a new study, reported in most of the media today, suggests that even mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency during pregnancy may be ...
Women 40% more likely than men to develop mental illness, study finds
22nd May 2013
Society: Mental health | guardian.co.uk
Researchers say women are more likely to have depression and anxiety, while more men report substance abuseWomen are up to 40% more likely than men to develop mental health conditions, according to new analysis by a clinical psychologist at Oxford University.The finding, based on analysis of epidemiological studies from the UK, US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, has significant consequences for public health, according to Prof Daniel Freeman, who said that as millions of people in the UK alone were affected by mental illness, the consequences of gender disparities were widespread. Mental health campaigners said GPs needed to be aware ...
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