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In Poland, the running trend is dominated by the middle class. Women run mainly for health, rivalry is more important for men - said Dr. Jakub Ryszard Stempień from the Medical University of Lodz.more

A "world-first" mental health scheme set up to tackle the unmet psychological stress among NHS GPs has seen more patients in its first 10 months than it was expected to handle annually. The revelation comes as a survey of more than 800 family doctors found one in seven admit they have turned to alcohol or prescription drugs to manage the pressure of their jobmore

A 16-month-old child who allegedly developed acute bronchitis because of damp and mouldy conditions at his mother's rented home has been awarded €20,000 against her former landlords.more

More than 40 of the UK's largest towns and cities have air considered too dangerous to breathe, including London, a report has shown. Pollution levels in 44 out of the 51 places studied exceeded the WHO's safety limits for fine sooty particles, which have been linked to heart disease and premature death.more

The UK faces serious health implications if the government fails to agree a Brexit deal, finds a report that says of 35 portions of fruit and vegetables, a figure relating to the five-a-day recommendation for individuals, just one "portion" is grown in the UK and picked by British or non-EU workers.more

Early signs indicate that Public Health England's new harm reduction approach to decreasing smoking rates across the UK has not only been widely accepted, but capitalized upon. For the first time, vaping has featured prominently within the NHS Stoptober campaign, with the official website included in the Stoptober TV advertisement.more

Leading supermarkets have been called on to stop selling salmon reared by certain Scottish farms because they have sea lice infestations up to 20 times the recommended level.more

A Government strategy named Operation Constrain could also see extremists jump the queue for council houses, according to the Mail on Sunday.more

More patients should be told to go home and rest rather than be given antibiotics, according to health officials.more

More than 17,000 people have now signed a petition to ban fireworks in public.more

A woman filmed dragging a child along a pavement in Liverpool city centre has hit back at haters, insisting she's 'not a bad mum'.more

Surrey has more species of spiders than anywhere else in the UK.more

Migrants and visitors to the UK not eligible for free healthcare will now be charged upfront for treatment from today.more

Cocaine use is now global epidemic, but some countries are held more tightly in its grasp than others. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has just published statistics on which countries are most in thrall to the narcotic and Ireland is surprisingly high on the list - we're the tenth biggest users of the substance on the planet.more

The number of patients leaving Britain and flying overseas for medical treatment has trebled as NHS waiting times reach a record high, a Telegraph investigation has revealed.more

A law to set a minimum price for selling alcohol in Wales has been unveiled. Ministers believe tackling excessive drinking could save a life a week and mean 1,400 fewer hospital admissions a year. Pricing is seen as a "missing link" in public health efforts, alongside better awareness and treatment.more

They're a popular novelty item for Halloween costumes, but coloured contact lenses could leave you blind, eye doctors have warned.more

The UK has one of the worst records of pollution death of any country in Europe, a major study has found. Around 50,000 deaths last year in the UK can be attributed to toxic air and man-made chemicals, according to the investigation by researchers in New York.more

Oxford professor Sir Muir Gray, a Public Health England clinical adviser, told the Sun: 'We need to be encouraging activity as we age - not telling people to put their feet up.more

THE HSE IS developing an app that aims to inform patients on how busy their nearest Emergency Departments (ED) around the country.more

The National Health Service is to ban super-size chocolate bars from its canteens, restaurants and vending machines, NHS England said on Monday.more

Pregnant women, infants and the elderly are safe to eat runny eggs - if they are stamped with the British Lion mark, the food safety watchdog has announced. more

Being lonely can be as bad for someone's health as having a long-term illness such as diabetes or high blood pressure, the leader of Britain's GPs will warn on Thursday.more

Hospices in Poland have not enough volunteers, and number of people with care needs is growing - "Nasz Dziennik" reports.more

Gordon Ramsay has claimed that cocaine use is so rife in the restaurant industry that diners have asked him to sprinkle the class A drug over a soufflé and a customer at one of his venues took a plate to the toilet so they could snort lines of the drug.more