Diet and Health News and Features
 Drink to a healthy old age... with green tea: How beverage helps people stay fit Those who drank the most green tea were the least likely to develop 'functional disability' according to the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine. |
Sky News presenter Gemma Morris nearly died from allergy on Austria ski holiday Gemma Morris was holidaying in the ski resort of Filzmoos, in Austria, with her mother when she was rushed to A&E after tucking into a starter at her hotel. |
Sisters shed their skin every DAY in condition that causes it to grow six times faster than normal Stacey and Emma Picken, from County Durham, shed their skin every day after they were born with a rare condition that affects only one in 600,000 people. |
Mother who needed face 'rebuilt' with 20 ops after test riding horse sues owners Kara Goldsmith, who lives in Hallgarth, County Durham, had her case against the horse’s keeper, businessman Bradley Patchcott, rejected last year by a County Court judge. |
Katie Piper: Acid attack survivor has eye-sight restored after stem-cell surgery Her sight has been restored thanks to doctors at the Queen Victoria hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex, who used eye tissue from the cornea of an anonymous male donor. |
Obesity can be INFECTIOUS: Gut microbe imbalance is catching, study finds We all know of couples who piled on the pounds after they married. But Yale University scientists have now claimed chubbiness could be catching. |
Baby becomes youngest person ever to have open heart surgery at 17-and-a-half hours old Jasmine Carr, pictured with parents James and Jo, had only a 15 per cent chance of survival when surgeons at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital operated on her just 17-and-a-half hours after she was born. |
Pensioner with aneurysm that could kill her any minute told NHS won't fund £15k op Without the life-saving operation, Barbara Judge from Coventry (pictured with her granddaughter and great-granddaughter) fears she could die any time. |
Mothers-to-be with diabetes 'four times more likely to have baby with birth defects' Pregnant women with diabetes are almost four times more likely to have a baby with a birth defect than women without the condition, warn researchers from Newcastle University. |
Girl born with no kidneys has finally finished with surgery after 27 major operations Alice Skinner, from Hartlepool, was born with stumps for kidneys after they failed to develop in the womb. But after years of treatment and surgery, she is now looking forward to her 11th birthday. |
Oral cancer risk trebles after just two glasses of wine a day Drinking slightly more than the recommended safe alcohol limits can massively raise the likelihood of many life-threatening illnesses, according to a new Government campaign. |
Babies born with EITHER parent over the age of 30 are more likely to suffer from autism The risk is up to 27 per cent higher than for those with younger parents, according to researchers from Denmark working alongside Cambridge University. |
Playing in the sun ¿reduces risk of eczema and food allergies in children¿ Scientists used data from analysis of Australian children and how rates of food allergies, eczema and asthma varied throughout the country. |
Don't suffer death by armchair: A warning to the over-70s as experts say too many decide their exercising days are over According to Dr Mark Baxter elderly people who have suffered an illness, fall or even bereavement tend to loose their confidence and this can cause a fear of going out. |
Jab that ends the agony of childhood arthritis: New NHS treatment brings relief to nine in ten young patients NICE has approved RoActemra (tocilizumab) to treat systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) which is currently incurable. |