Category: 6. Health

One in seven people in England who need hospital care are not receiving it because their GP referral is lost, rejected or delayed, the NHS’s patient watchdog has found.

Three-quarters (75%) of those trapped in this “referrals black hole”…

New experimental evidence shows that food smells encountered before birth and during early life can rewire brain and metabolic responses to fat, increasing the risk of obesity later in life, even in the absence of maternal obesity…

The early December weather this year in no way resembles a real winter, but when it comes to seasonal illnesses, the season has already arrived in full force. Over the past few weeks, the incidence of flu and other winter viral respiratory…

LOS ANGELES – US vaccine advisers’ decision to scrap longstanding guidance on hepatitis B shots will expose more children to the harmful virus and may signal how other evidence-based vaccine policies can be undermined, doctors and disease…

Kim Crossman is officially a new mum. We’ve had the incredible honour of getting to share her pregnancy journey here at Capsule through her column, Pretty Pregnant. Well, Kim is proud to announce she is no longer Pretty Pregnant – she has…

Researchers have discovered metabolites that impact liver metabolism and insulin sensitivity. They travel from the intestine to the liver and then to the heart, from where they are spread to the rest of the body.

The publication in Cell…

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“You have weak digestion,” the reflexology therapist declared as she scraped a wooden massage stick up and down the arch in my right foot. I winced while nodding in agreement, half hoping she’d accept my admission as a peace offering and…

Scientists looking to tackle our ongoing obesity crisis have made an important discovery: Intermittent calorie restriction leads to significant changes both in the gut and the brain, which may open up new options for maintaining a healthy…

Scientists looking to tackle our ongoing obesity crisis have made an important discovery: Intermittent calorie restriction leads to significant changes both in the gut and the brain, which may open up new options for maintaining a healthy weight.

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