Mapped: The world according to life expectancy
See the world according to life expectancy, and browse our tips for holidays to help you live longer (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Britain's NHS can't survive staying in the European Union
Do you prefer the EU or the NHS? The referendum gives us a chance to keep our national health service alive, safe from open door immigration and TTIP (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: health tourism migrants ukip immigration trade eu health service ttip nhs brexit Source Type: news

Crackdown on high-strength laser pens
A Government crackdown has been announced after a seven year old boy was left with permanent damage to his retina (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Cherie Blair, a failed high-street health firm and a messy trail of £5m in debts
Scale of disastrous healthcare venture is revealed in documents obtained by The Telegraph. One investor, who is likely to lose all of his $250,000 investment, is now considering his legal options over fund founded by Cherie Blair and her business partner (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: allele fund mee healthcare cherie blair health tony blair wife business gail lese Source Type: news

Doctor faces being struck off for having sex with prostitute in hospital
Dr Rupert Pemsel, 32, described as risk to patients by health watchdogs after encouter at Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pemsel Medical Practicioners Tribunal Source Type: news

David Cameron rules out tax on sugary foods
David Cameron describes the 'battle' he and his wife Samantha face as they try to stop their children from having sugary drinks and foods at home (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: David Cameron sugar tax foods osborne fizzy drinks Source Type: news

People with autism die 16 years earlier than expected, study finds
£10 million research programme to investigate why autistic adults are dying decades before their time (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Sperm discovery could mean new fertility treatments
Scientists say they have discovered the crucial mechanism which causes reproduction, which could lead to the development of new fertility treatments or a contraceptive pill which could be taken by either gender (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: sperm unisex contraceptive pill fertility berkely Source Type: news

Emotional moment boyfriend's marriage proposal is first thing young woman hears after cochlear implant
After receiving a cochlear implant, Andrea Diaz certainly wasn't expecting her boyfriend asking her to marry him as one of the first things she would hear... (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Plans to ban e-cigarettes in public places defeated
Contentious legislation to ban vaping in certain public places like schools and public transport was defeated by just one vote (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: public places children cigarettes ban smoking e-cigarettes schools wales vaping Source Type: news

Man given vasectomy by mistake after complaining about waiting times
Dr Nanikram Vaswani was meant to be removing scar tissue from the patient but gave the man a vasectomy instead (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: complaimed wrong man Dr Nanikram Vaswani vasectomy waiting times doctor Source Type: news

How to lose weight - switch off the TV at meal times
Switching off the radio or TV during meals can help you lose weight because the sound of your own chewing makes you eat less, study shows (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Memories wiped by Alzheimer's could be revived, research suggests
Lost memories could be retrieved by shining a light on damaged brain cells, scientists at MIT find (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

George Osborne's Budget was about two things: his career and the EU
The Chancellor wants Britain to know: stick with me, stick with Europe, you won't go far wrong (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: george osborne eu referendum budget Source Type: news

Poppers 'will remain legal' despite ban on legal highs
A review by the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs has found that akyl nitrates are 'not psychoactive' under the terms of the new Psychoactive Substances Act (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs. Poppers Psychoactive Substances Act alkyl nitrites Source Type: news