Health Sector Reporting: Do No Harm

A Brief Note On The Status-Quo “Bacon Can Cause Cancer.” “Drinking Red Wine Just As Good As Hitting The Gym.” These headlines certainly make for likely click-bait. (The last one in particular, if you’re anything like me and have New Year’s resolutions of “getting healthier” on the mind.) They may even be laughable. But it’s…

Make kids walk to slow child obesity epidemic, says health chief

RADIO: Parents should be banned from driving their kids to school and instead encourage them to walk for at least a quarter a mile every day. That’s the message from the UK’s new president of Public Health Professor John Ashton. He says that if childhood obesity is not tackled soon, parents and health authorities risk “writing…