Fire service criticised for buying £300,000 vehicle to rescue obese people
Rising number of obesity related rescues leads fire service to buy specialist truck (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: fire fat obese vehicle brigade oveweight rescue service Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service firefighters Source Type: news

BMI wrongly branding people as unhealthy, new research reveals
New research reveals half of people labelled 'obese' through BMI scores are actually healthy (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: obese wrong fitness overweight BMI unhealthy body mass index measurement Source Type: news

Zika virus concern is warranted, but there is not a cogent enough reason to call off the Rio Olympic Games
Oliver Brown: Concern is warranted but it would not feel like an Olympic year without an extended prelude of doomsaying (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: zika virus olympics cancelled rio olympics rio 2016 Source Type: news

Sacked NHS whistleblower handed £1.22m damages
NHS whistleblower unfairly sacked after exposing concerns about patient safety awarded £1.22 million damages (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: outspoken raj medical medcine reports dr mattu cardiologist whistleblower doctor Source Type: news

Keep cancer alive to stop it spreading, say scientists
Keeping cells alive around a tumour stops it expanding, the University of Cambridge has discovered (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: cure cambridge university health cells treatment tumour wellcome trust cancer spread stop science Source Type: news

Team GB athlete dies from meningitis after being told by A&E doctor she had stomach bug
Triathlete Ellie Penrose was sent home by newly-qualified doctor with painkillers after complaining of headache and sensitivity to light (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: meningitis East Yorkshire Ellie Penrose Hull Royal Infirmary inquest triathlete Source Type: news

World Cancer Day: the lives cut short in the last year
On World Cancer Day, we remember just some of the British stars who lost their lives to the disease in the last year (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: David Bowie World Cancer Day Terry Wogan liver cancer Alan Rickman Source Type: news

Zika outbreak: Brazil's Dilma Rousseff vows to battle mosquitoes to curb virus
President deploys 500,000 personnel to tackle the crisis as South American health ministers hold emergency meeting (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Dilma Zika virus Rousseff mosquitoes war outbreak Brazil fight battle President Source Type: news

Zika outbreak 'could infect hundreds of thousands of people in Spain'
Scientists are concerned that the tiger mosquito, which is rife in Spain, could infect hundreds of thousands of people with the Zika virus (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: test scientists spain zika treatment help infection symptoms hundreds of thousnads mosquito Source Type: news

Four in 10 hospitals give poor care to the dying, figures show
Care Quality Commission data reveals 67 hospitals have been rated as 'requiring improvement' for their end-of-life care and seven are 'inadequate' (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: care quality commission cqc palliative care end of life nhs Source Type: news

Drug to prevent ageing closer as scientists extend life of animals by 35 per cent
Mice who received a special compound to clear out the dead cells lived 35 per cent longer than those allowed to age normally (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: drug mayo clinic health animals metformin ageing extend lifespan Source Type: news

Zika outbreak: NHS bans blood donations for 28 days after travel
Donors must wait for a month after travelling to zika infected countries to give blood while organ transplants will be banned if symptoms were present (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: blood donation zika virus donor countries symptoms organ transplant Source Type: news

Middle-aged are the least happy people in UK
Study says 40-59 group has lowest life satisfaction (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: mental health happiness Office of National Statistics Source Type: news

Zika virus might stop me taking my family to the Olympics, admits British athletics star Martyn Rooney
Exclusive: GB athletics captain says it would be "irresponsible" to take his wife and baby son to Rio at the moment (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: zika virus olympics martyn rooney Source Type: news

Zika outbreak: public health officials accused of causing mass confusion
Many women have already cancelled or moved holidays but now the World Health Organisation says travel restrictions are not needed (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - February 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: zika travel public health england confusion world health organisation chaos Source Type: news