Eugenics is inevitable because parents will always want to 'enhance' their children, experts warn
There is a worry that doctors are performing unregulated and dangerous procedures if offered enough cash (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: eugenics Octomum Francis Crick Institute Source Type: news

Human mini-brains to speed up Alzheimer's and Parkinson's research
The miniature organs, which are around the size of an insect eye, contain neurons and cells of a human brain (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Women under 65 in 2016 will spend a third of their lives in retirement, life expectancy figures show
The length of time pensioners can expect to live once they reach milestones in old age has reached a record high (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: life expectancy retirement old age Source Type: news

Zika virus: aircraft to be sprayed with insecticide
Airports urged to step up controls by UN aviation organisation (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Zika virus health aviation ICAO Source Type: news

Take exercise or get Alzheimer's? Forget that!
New evidence suggests fit 40s are less likely to get dementia. But that's only because yummy mummies in lycra are already the most inane bunch of airheads (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: yummy alzheimers dementia exercise mummies gym Source Type: news

Jeremy Hunt mocked for 'irony' of announcing review of junior doctors' morale as new contract is forced through
Jeremy Hunt was roundly mocked for the review into medics' wellbeing, while a junior doctor confronted the health minister about the new contracts (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: review morale doctors strike dagan lonsdale wellbeing jeremy hunt junior doctors contracts Source Type: news

The junior doctors' strike is run by media-savvy militants in white coats
Hard-working junior doctors deserve to be put on a pedestal, but this week their union has stretched public goodwill beyond the bounds of what is remotely reasonable (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: striking doctors doctors strikes bma medics hospitals jeremy hunt nhs walkout juniordoctorscontract Source Type: news

Longest surviving heart transplant patient dies
John McCafferty died aged 73 33 years after he underwent the life-saving operation (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

#IAmTheDoctorWho: Junior doctors tweet explaining how vital their work is
As Junior Doctors go on strike, they have been tweeting how important their work is using a trending hashtag (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: doctors strike i am the doctor who iamthedoctorwho jeremy hunt junior doctors peter capaldi jk rowling Source Type: news

Zika virus in UK: Four cases of bug that could harm unborn babies in Britain, health watchdog reveals
A Public Health England official told a committee of MPs that four 'travel-associated' cases of the virus have been detected in this country in the last six weeks (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: fumigate illness Brazil babies China birth olympics zika virus Britain UK unborn defects mosquito Source Type: news

Australian spinifex grass could make super-thin condoms 'as thin as human hair'
Scientists in Queensland are using fibres from spinifex plant to make condoms that are 30 per cent thinner than existing products (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: super thin sex strength super-thin prophylactics research condoms Spinifex Australia science Source Type: news

Takeaways and alcohol 'causing pet obesity crisis'
Vet charity PDSA highlights statistics indicating more than five million cats, dogs and rabbits in the UK are overweight as it launches slimming contest (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: cats fat obesity obese health takeaways alcohol pets dogs Source Type: news

Patients far more likely to die if nurses care for more than six, major study finds
New research finds patients looked after by nurses coping with more than 10 patients have death rates 20 per cent higher than those with a caseload of six (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Public backlash against junior doctors' strike grows, but most back action
On the eve of a second strike by junior doctors, new polling shows a sharp rise in the number of people who strongly oppose industrial action, though most support it (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: government strike february 10 health service nhs walkout junior doctors when is the next junior doctors' strike Source Type: news

Telling people to avoid all sunshine is very dim
Telegraph View: The latest guidelines that all tanning must be avoided is the latest overzealous health advice to undermine the credibility of its authors (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news