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From diet tips to dementia advice for over 50s, find the latest in health news from Silversurfers. Our health features archives are packed with interesting articles and tips to help you take control of your health and feel your best at any age.
To make sense of the many conflicting ‘reports’ about the benefits and dangers of...
Be supplement savvy
More than 80,000 people are treated for Yuletide-induced injuries each year according to the...
Ten festive health hazards
Thanks to the NHS website, it’s easy for people around the UK to find...
Making the most of the NHS website
With NHS shortages, endless waiting lists and postcode lotteries, most of us moan about...
Medicine? More like mad-icine!
Millions of moustaches are about to sprout as men use their faces to raise...
Charcot-Marie-Tooth is one of the most common inherited neurological disorders in the world, yet...
Travelling to Europe? Have you got your European Health card? Have you checked the...
Below are a range of health tips from AXA PPP Healthcare, which you may...
A new drug for Type 2 diabetes launched in the UK could save the...
Fewer than one in three pensioners think that elderly people are treated with dignity...
Everyday life puts our bodies through a lot, so it’s important that we look...
Age related macular degeneration (ARMD) is said to be the most common cause of...
Three out of five British men aged 45 and over say they do not...
At-home cosmetic procedure parties should be banned, leading doctors have said. So called “Botox...
More than a third of workers think it is unacceptable to take a day...
Workers are being challenged to dress brightly on Monday, 21st January 2013, in a...
Britons are popping painkillers with alcohol to ward off colds and avoid hangovers, which...
The menopause is such a hotly debated area of women’s health that men are...
The number of people in England and Wales living to beyond 100 is increasing...
The decreased ability to hear is a serious condition that many people have to...
With recent changes in government rules, a revolution is taking place in the provision...
Purchasing prescription medicines online without a prescription is on the increase, pharmacists said. Three-quarters...
Care home inspections have risen by 225% in the wake of the abuse scandals...
Health information is too complicated, experts have said. Complicated messages on health screening posters,...
Tens of thousands of patients will be able to get cash from their doctors...
Grapefruit poses a potentially lethal health risk to increasing numbers of patients taking prescription...
Vulnerable people are at risk of receiving “poor or unsafe care” as pressures on...
It’s the bane of every wife and girlfriend’s life – but does the single-sex...
New research reveals 1 in 3 Brits wake up in pain. [London, November 13th...
Patients have been urged not to request antibiotics for coughs and colds due to...
For those couples where either one or both are in need of nursing care,...
A nasal spray has been developed that could mean an end to daily injections...
Many people who risk becoming seriously ill if they get the flu have not...
A drug that could benefit people with heart failure has been recommended for use....
