"One in four of England's nurses is obese, a "deeply worrying" new study has revealed" Sky News reports
"Pets can harbour the hospital superbug MRSA and it can pass between pets and their owners," BBC News reports. New research suggests that as many as 9% of dogs may be carriers, though the risk of transmission is small…
"Relying upon the death rates of individual surgeons…may lead to 'false complacency'," The Daily Telegraph warns. It reports on an article in The Lancet which argues that recently published NHS data on surgical outcomes is too limited…
'Say goodbye to double chins with a new ‘fat-eater’ treatment that doesn’t need surgery' is the encouraging news in the Daily Mail. A smallish study found that a so-called fatburner injection, ATX-101, achieved significant results …
"Quarter of obese children missed by BMI tests," the Mail Online reports. The headline was prompted by a review that combined the results of 37 studies in more than 50,000 children and found body mass index (BMI)…
“Shocking figures show there are now 124 million obese children worldwide,” reports The Guardian. A pooling of records of height and weight in children from 200 countries found the numbers of children who are obese has risen from less than 1% in 1975, to 5.6% of girls and 7.8% of boys in 2016.
“Thinking can make you fat” is the headline in The Daily Telegraph. A Canadian research team measured the food intake of 14 female students after three thinking
“Playing active computer games 'keeps children fit' and could turn the tide of obesity”, reports the Daily Mail. It said that research in children between six and