As normality returns after the festive season and people go back to work and school, health experts are expecting a surge in flu cases. In fact research suggests that this winter has already been the worst for flu cases in the UK for over a decade.
As a result of the flu threat, which seems to be worse in England, health officials are advising people to be vaccinated as soon as possible. In particular children in high risk groups should be vaccinated to prevent any serious illness occurring.
Children aged under five …

For some men baldness is a curse, while for others it is a cool and even sexy look. However, the exact reasons why men go bald have been unclear until now. Experts now believe they have found the cause of male pattern baldness.
This could be a very important breakthrough for the millions of men around the world with receding hairlines. Those looking to grow back their hair will take heart that the team of scientists from the University of Pennsylvania believe it may be possible to cure male baldness.
Baldness is …

Flu cases have gone up again in Great Britain, according to statistics from our doctors. The levels of flu – including swine flu – have increased by roughly 50% in the last week, says the Royal College of GPs.
In the week leading up to December 26th there were 124.4 cases of flu per 100,000 people in England and Wales, the Royal College of GPs said. During the preceding week there were 85.8 cases per 100,000.
These figures also don’t include people who stay at home and who don’t contact the doctor.
Although …

A teen from South Africa is helping to fight HIV and AIDS.  Nkosinathi Stempalo likes girls, sports and soccer, and he’s studying to become a psychologist.  In the remote and poor village where he lives, teens have a much greater chance of contracting HIV, than of graduating from college.   It’s been a long road to get health education to remote areas like this but progress is being made.
In Mpumalanga province, 65 percent of people between eighteen and thirty-four are HIV positive.  Almost six million people in South Africa have contracted …

Wilson used to be a spokesperson for Fresh Diet, which is a food delivery service.  She was fired by the company because she gained weight and was supposedly using the diet to keep her weight off.  She had lost nineteen pounds while on Fresh Diet, but then gained it back, plus some more, said a company spokesperson.  Wilson has launched her own cheesecake company.
The Fresh Diet people claimed that Carnie Wilson was supposed to be eating their 2 snacks and 3 meals a day, but was promoting her own business …

Jobseekers who are overweight may be postponing their search for employment until they lose some of their holiday pounds.  Statistics have shown that people who are overweight, likely earn less and can be overlooked for promotions and jobs, while thinner workers aren’t.  They also don’t want employers to look upon them as additional health risks due to the weight.
A small business owner in Long Island stated that if everything else on a job-seeker’s application is equal, that he’d hire the fitter candidate over another one.  He was thinking …

A controversial report which has just been released has stated that cancer is actually a modern disease which is man made and is caused by the excesses of modern living.
The researches behind the report investigated approximately 1000 mummies from ancient Egypt and their studies showed that only a very small number had suffered from the disease compared to today where almost one in three people will find that they will suffer from cancer at some point in their lives.
The study showed that the main causes of cancer today are the …

Illness was always going to be a major concern for the organisers of the 2010 Commonwealth games in Delhi, but it would perhaps be fair to say that the various illnesses that are being suffered by many of the athletes taking part has only gone to substantiate the initial worries.
It really was touch and go whether the games would actually go ahead because right up until the last minute the facilities where the athletes were staying were nowhere near ready for habitat and there were reports of over flowing toilets, …

Washington, DC (Vocus) October 13, 2010
The Independent Women’s Forum today releases its latest policy paper, this one looking at the impact of health reform on business. IWF Policy Analyst Hadley Heath wrote the paper.

The health industry officially accounts for one-sixth of the American economy. Yet the effects of reforms to our health care system will go far beyond the health care sector and will impact every business in the United States.

The reforms in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), along with the Health Care …

After years of inhaling hair clippings, a hairdresser from Northumberland has had to have reconstructive surgery after her nose collapsed. Edwina Phillipson, aged 51, started to notice problems 12 years ago as her nose became irritable. She has been working as a hairdresser for 35 years and it is thought that the hairs became lodged in the skin around the nostrils. This created an infection and then in turn it created a hole through the septum over time.
Edwina states:
“As a hairdresser you’re working with tiny clippings of short hair so …