Best Information Focus on Men's Health Issues
Currently Browsing: Health Review
This article was written by Tim Parks, for The Guardian on Saturday 13th November 2010 00.00 UTC
There is nothing noisier than silence, if your head is full of words. Escape the clamour of the city and at once an excited voice enthuses about the quiet. “How wonderful,” you tell yourself getting out of the car, “to have made it up to the Highlands, to have fled the traffic and the TV and the...
This article was written by Tim Dowling, for The Guardian on Wednesday 1st December 2010 20.00 UTC
A study in the British Journal of Cancer appears to show that men whose ring fingers are longer than their index fingers are more likely to develop prostate cancer. If you’re a man, chances are you’ve already checked your fingers and found cause for alarm. Don’t worry too much: the majority of men...
This article was written by Ian Sample, science correspondent, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 18th October 2010 16.21 UTC
Eighty-six people have been accidentally killed by badly trained acupuncturists over the past 45 years, according to Britain’s leading expert on alternative medicine.
A review of patients who died soon after acupuncture found a history of punctured hearts and lungs, damaged arteries and...
This article was written by Jamie Doward, for guardian.co.uk on Saturday 18th September 2010 23.06 UTC
It is not what a government determined to get people off benefits wants to hear, but a study has thrown cold water on the idea that those who don’t work are less happy than those who do.
New research has found that although the jobless are generally less satisfied with their lot than people in work, their...
This article was written by Denis Campbell, for guardian.co.uk on Tuesday 27th July 2010 15.10 UTC
Is Andrew Lansley happy with anything about the way healthcare is organised and delivered? It seems not. First, he produced an NHS reform white paper to radically alter Nye Bevan’s creation in ways that would horrify its founding father. Then, on Monday, he announced a major cull of health quangos. He also plans...
Try something quietly profound
What your fingers say about you
Dozens killed by incorrectly placed acupuncture needles
Happiness doesn’t depend on having a job, study finds
We should be responsible for our health
