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According to a year-long study, offering financial incentives to people to encourage them to lose weight is effective and could be a low-cost solution to ... More

The failure to tackle the UK's obesity crisis is down to successive governments being guilty of weak policy design, lack of effectiveness and botched implementation. ... More

NHS patients who have been diagnosed with cancer will be offered exercise and gym sessions before they start chemotherapy. The "prehabilitation" programmes will be implemented ... More

Leading UK cancer charities have called for newly diagnosed to be prescribed exercise and nutrition plans, in order to help their recovery. Macmillan Cancer Support, ... More

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is investing £2.5m in a study to find out whether long-term exercise can help tackle the side effects ... More

Getting more people active on their way to work is the aim of a new £1m trial headed up by Bristol University, which will involve ... More

A British physiotherapist has been awarded a research grant to examine the benefits of abdominal massage for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Doreen McClurg, a ... More

Around 12,000 cases of cancer each year are caused by people being overweight or obese, according to a new study published in The Lancet medical ... More

Image: The doping facility was purposed built for the Games The London 2012 anti-doping facilities will be developed after the Olympic and Paralympic Games into ... More

Image: The initiative will boost health and wellbeing A new £37m initiative has been launched with the support of government funding to improve the health, ... More