AnatomyStuff Blog

One in 10 women suffer from endometriosis but it was only last autumn that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued guidelines that encouraged GPs to listen to what their women patients were saying about the crippling period pain that many were experiencing every month. It can take between 7-8 years to be diagnosed with endometriosis currently...Read More

Public Health England have published a new evidence review that suggests people who regularly do strengthening exercises could improve their health in old age. The review was published jointly by Public Health England and the Centre for Ageing better and suggests that health benefits can be offered for all adults if they engage in exercises that strengthen their bones and...Read More

Last autumn, the Scottish government published a consultation document on reducing obesity.  The document sets out how being obese harms health and the ways in which the government aims to encourage the food companies to reduce their marketing to children and encourage people to eat more healthily.

The consultation acknowledges how hard it can be to eat healthily especially because unhealthy...Read More

Women are up to three times more likely to die from heart disease than breast cancer, but many of them do not recognise this fact. Traditionally heart disease has been seen as a man’s disease, with women’s risk of developing it thought as being lower. Studies have shown that oestrogen has a protective effect against heart disease in women, but...Read More

Scientists from the University of Sussex and Portsmouth have been examining whether horses are able to remember and understand human facial expressions. The University of Sussex has previously put together a directory of horse facial expressions and carried out another study where they found that equines are able to read human emotions, as can dogs. This study was published in...Read More

Concerned that members of the public were failing to clearly understand the labelling of sunscreen, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society conducted a survey into how much the public understood the system. They found that only 8% of the 2000 people surveyed, knew what the SPF of a product measured and that other factors would indicate the full protection of a product...Read More