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A glass of milk and a biscuit at bedtime may be responsible for a string of health problems in children, according to website www.parentdish.co.uk.Dubbed the 'milk and cookie disease', American doctors say the combination of sugar and dairy late at night is believed to be the cause of many childhood ailments, including running noses, coughs, sore throats, constipation and fatigue.

Frontline professionals who work with vulnerable adults are frequently unaware of the Mental Capacity Act or lack the skills to put it into practice, according to the Law Society of England and Wales.

Anti-mental health stigma group Time to Change launched part of its latest campaign last week with a range of celebrities encouraging people to talk about mental health issues. Campaigns like this should be welcomed as an increasingly important tool in challenging mental health stigma in young people especially.

Three studies by US researchers have found that eating at least three servings a week of whole fruits is associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes.

New oral therapy IMNOVID® (pomalidomide), used in combination with low-dose dexamethasone, has demonstrated a significant survival advantage over high-dose dexamethasone alone, in patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma (rrMM), according to a study in the Lancet Oncology.

Up to a third of all patients who come to A&E wards in England do not need to be there, a leading doctor has said, in a frank admission that the NHS has not done enough to tell people where their a first port of call for medical care should be.

People who were deprived of one night's sleep purchased more calories and grams of food in a mock supermarket on the following day, according to a new study published in the journal Obesity.

More has to be done to ensure that overseas applicants are fit to practice in the UK, according to Jacque Gerrard, director for England at the Royal College of Midwives.

AstraZeneca has announced enrolment of the first patient in the Phase III clinical programme for olaparib, an oral poly ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor being investigated for the treatment of BRCA mutated ovarian cancer.

Scottish Health secretary Alex Neil has attacked the €œdamaging€ effects of NHS privatisation in England, pledging to take the service in Scotland down a different path to ensure the best care for patients.

Skype could be the answer to future consultations, according to leading consultants. 

The NHS has been given an extra £240m to develop technology that enables staff to provide safer patient care with less bureaucracy, according to Sky News.

The family of a man from Cambridgeshire who was injected with a lethal dose of painkillers has welcomed government proposals to check the English-language skills of doctors working in the UK, according to the BBC.

The General Medical Council is to be given new powers to check the English-language skills of all doctors working in the UK, under government proposals.

Scientists have warned that harvested shellfish should be screened for toxins to avoid long-term health risks, according to a report published in the Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM) journal.