In the survey, by Britains leading eating disorders charity BEAT, 79 per cent of families affected by eating disorders said they had caused lasting damage to their lives.
Some 1.1 million people in Britain are affected by anorexia, bulimia or binge eating, BEAT said in the survey published at the start of eating disorders awareness week.
Twenty [...]
The eight residents, most in their 70s and 80s, of Crossdale Courts in Curletts Road, Riccarton, thought they were secure for the rest of their lives but now face an uncertain future as a legal fight begins.
The wrangle over the one-bedroomed units, which fall outside the Retirement Villages Act passed last year, again raises issues [...]
For years, the chopped salad has been resting on its laurels � or its iceberg lettuce, anyway.Fortunately, it’s undergone a renaissance lately. All those heaps of cut-up iceberg, mozzarella, salami and chickpeas tossed in red wine vinaigrette have given way to more interesting ingredients, more artfully prepared.Take, for instance, the chopped salad at the Foundry [...]
Of those enrolled, one group of patients had aggressive medical therapy, plus angioplasty (balloons in arteries) or stents to open the narrowings. The other group had aggressive medical therapy alone. The results? The likelihood of death, heart attack or other major cardiac events [...]
The bigger problem was that nearly 10 percent of postmenopausal women studied had too much iron in their blood, which can occur from frequent consumption of meat, alcohol and iron supplements and simply from aging. A half-million women are at [...]
Eight people, including the children, were taken to Christchurch Hospital after the two-car accident at the intersection of Pine Avenue and Bridge Street about 9am on Saturday.
An ambulance spokesman said two people had serious injuries.
Witness Tony Fonotia said a four-wheel drive vehicle rolled, throwing three children out, after colliding with another car.
There was just carnage [...]
At the same time, psychiatrists say, his case may help reinforce a key lesson: Stopping antidepressant therapy suddenly can be risky if patients do not follow a doctor’s instructions and don’t report any negative effects.
About one-fifth of people who halt a course of Prozac-like drugs report symptoms associated with a condition known [...]
At the local level, jail wardens concede they are not trained or equipped to handle the inmates’ medical issues, which often are intertwined with lengthy histories of drug abuse, petty theft and dysfunction. Police officers wind up taking people to jail for repeated offenses such as disturbing [...]
Welcome to a place known as Duroville, home to about 6,000 people, where the squalor is so shocking that the federal government wants it shut down, even if families must go homeless.
A federal judge last week stopped short of closing the Coachella Valley trailer-home park, ordering what one lawyer called a [...]
NEW ORLEANS First he watched then-teammate Derek Fisher deal with his daughter’s childhood eye cancer during the Jazz’s playoff run last season.
Then he saw Jazz power forward Carlos Boozer not only spend the offseason helping to care for a young son who is battling [...]
