Month: January 2017

Britain's NHS public health service has been the country&039;s pride since 1948, but is currently gripped by a "humanitarian crisis" due to alleged "third world" conditions that are piling pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May. The stark image of 22-month-old Jack Harwood, wearing only a nappy, stretched across two plastic chairs while waiting to see a doctor in an Accident and Emergency ward dominated the front page of the Daily Mirror newspaper on Friday, laying bare the depth of the winter crisis. Doctors and hospitals have said the National Health Service (NHS) is "approaching a tipping point", with every winter putting increasing stress on the free-at-point-of-use service, described as a "national religion" by former minister Nigel Lawson.

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Ed Sheeran just earned his place in the celebrity weight loss hall of fame, losing 50 pounds with just a few shockingly easy changes to his diet and …
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U.S. House Republicans were moving ahead on Friday with legislation aimed at dismantling Obamacare, despite concerns about not having a replacement for the healthcare program and the potential financial costs in repealing President Barack Obama's landmark law. Moderate Republican Representative Charlie Dent said he had reservations about voting for the effort to start a repeal but would not say whether he would vote for or against it. Dent and other House Republicans on Friday speculated there was enough support within their party to pass the measure instructing committees to begin writing legislation to repeal Obamacare, known formally as the Affordable Care Act.

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The early reaction to the increased soda prices hasn't exactly been positive, and switching to diet soda offers no relief — the tax, controversially, …
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(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ruled in favor of Eli Lilly & Co in a closely-watched patent case, saying a lower court judge correctly found Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and other companies liable for inducing the infringement of Lilly's lung cancer drug Alimta. The decision by the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals came in a case in which Lilly sought to block Teva and other defendants from launching generic versions of Alimta, one of its best-selling drugs, before patent protections fully expire in 2022.

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And one particularly extreme concept appears to have come into fashion – the "Milk Diet", where people consume ONLY milk for a month. The full …
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