Health archive

Obesity
May
12

How we should tackle the obesity epidemic

Zoƫ Harcombe asks how many more people will become overweight before we cut back on processed carbohydrate foods high on fructose

Horsemeat
May
11

Horsing around with the food chain

Pamela Robinson asks whether we can continue buying cheap and cheerful products in our supermarkets

American food expert Mark Winne
May
10

Food wars where many are too fat to fight

John Osmond discovers that a Food Council being set up in Cardiff is part of a world-wide movement

NHS
Apr
26
Betsi Cadwaladr health board is based at Heath Hospital
Apr
25
MMR-Vaccine
Apr
08

Measles outbreak in Swansea a warning

Nick Morris says the current spread of disease across Wales makes the case for MMR vaccination

anti-anti-abortion
Mar
01

Abortion row in Cardiff city centre

Hannah Austin explains why pro and anti campaigners are taking to the streets in the Welsh capital

cycling-city
Feb
26
Alcohol-lifestyle-illness
Feb
25

Living in an age of (Welsh) lifestyle diseases

Andrew Misell asks what we can do about our propensity to eat, drink, and smoke

Steve,-Pedson-and-widows
Feb
24

Forging Welsh links with Uganda

Steve Garret describes helping a group of widows develop a business out of small-scale farming in Africa