As a nation we are gaining weight rapidly, risking our lives and passing on bad habits to our children and future generations. Fast food, busy lifestyles and genetics are largely to blame and a new ...
CHECKING your child’s waist-to-height ratio is a better measure of if they’re obese than body mass index (BMI), a study shows. The simple test — which can be checked with a piece of string — detected ...
A pioneering team of nurses have rolled out the “sponge on a string” test in the community, to support earlier detection of Barrett’s oesophagus. Nurses at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust ...
Eight out of ten patients who took the test were discharged without needing further testing The NHS has announced that a simple sponge-on-a-string test developed by researchers from the early cancer ...
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