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Fizzy drinks should be heavily taxed and junk food adverts banished until after the television watershed, doctors have said, in a call for action over obesity. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which represents nearly every doctor in the UK, said ballooning waistlines already constituted a “huge crisis”. Its report said current measures were failing and called for unhealthy foods to be treated more like cigarettes. The BBC’s James Gallagher reports. (via BBC News - Tax fizzy drinks and ban junk food ads, say doctors)

Only one third of British men are considered to be normal weight, according to the latest statistics from the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). (via UK Obesity Epidemic Is Out Of Control)

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French fries, fried chicken and donuts have been American staples for generations, and although most people know that these foods are not high on the nutrition scale, they are still among the top fast foods consumed. However, new research has unearthed new and troubling side effects of these delights: they can cause cancer. (via The 3 Worst Cancer-causing Foods - The Alternative Daily)

A genetically-engineered virus has prolonged the lives of terminally ill liver cancer patients in a small clinical trial. The results will need confirming in larger studies, but Cancer Research UK welcomed the advance as “an exciting step forward”. (via Genetically engineered virus extends the lives of terminally-ill liver cancer patients : Cancer Research UK)

Researchers at UCLA report that they have refined a method they previously developed for capturing and analyzing cancer cells that break away from patients’ tumors and circulate in the blood. With the improvements to their device, which uses a Velcro-like nanoscale technology, they can now detect and isolate single cancer cells from patient blood samples for analysis. (via UCLA researchers further refine ‘NanoVelcro’ device to grab single cancer cells from blood / UCLA Newsroom)

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The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia has informed WHO of another confirmed case of infection with the novel coronavirus (NCoV). (via WHO | Novel coronavirus infection - update)

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