HEALTH

Nut and seed oils better than olive oil

Nut and seed oils better than olive oil

Olive oil may not be best for heart health and preventing diabetes as first thought and people should use oils derived from nuts and seeds instead, a new study found. Oils rich in linoleic acid such a ...
Keeping pace with heart treatment technologies

Keeping pace with heart treatment technologies

Medicine is developing at a rapid pace, but few fields have seen the innovation and progress experienced in the care and treatment of heart disease. Indeed heart specialists are now able to detect and ...
The life and times of a TV doctor

The life and times of a TV doctor

Janice Rosser, editor of OAPschat talks to Doctor Mark Porter about his life and career. If you don’t know Mark here is a brief outline of his varied TV, radio and medical career. *Mark is the m ...
100 things I wish I’d known about diabetes

100 things I wish I’d known about diabetes

New figures released by the charity Diabetes UK, show that 700 people a day are diagnosed with diabetes in the UK – that’s one person every two minutes. The charity says people often say their d ...