'No proof' fitness trackers promote weight loss

Wearing an activity device that counts how many steps you have taken does not appear to improve the chances of losing weight, research suggests. The two-year long study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) included nearly 500 overweight volunteers who were asked to diet and take more exercise. Half were given a fitness tracker to help them keep tabs. This group had lost less weight than the other one by the end of the...

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Clinton: Pneumonia got GOP 'interested in women's health'

   WASHINGTON (CNN) —Hillary Clinton used humor Friday to address her recent pneumonia diagnosis, telling an audience of black women in Washington that the upside was that it "finally got some Republicans interested in women's health." "I am also thrilled to be back on the campaign trial. As the world knows, I was a little under the weather recently," Clinton said. "The good news is my pneumonia finally got some Republicans interested...

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Long daytime naps are 'warning sign' for type-2 diabetes

Napping for more than an hour during the day could be a warning sign for type-2 diabetes, Japanese researchers suggest. They found the link after analysing observational studies involving more than 300,000 people. UK experts said people with long-term illnesses and undiagnosed diabetes often felt tired during the day. But they said there was no evidence that napping caused or increased the risk of diabetes. The large study, carried out by...

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UK Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey cleared of misconduct

A Scots nurse who survived Ebola has been cleared of misconduct charges by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Pauline Cafferkey, 40, was infected while working in Sierra Leone in 2014. She faced charges for allegedly allowing a wrong temperature to be recorded during the screening process at Heathrow on her arrival in the UK. The conduct and competence panel dismissed the charges after hearing she had been impaired by illness. Another charge...

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Making babies without eggs may be possible, say scientists

Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs. They have succeeded in creating healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into believing they were fertilising normal eggs. The findings in Nature Communications, could, in the distant future, mean women can be removed from the baby-making process, say the researchers. For now, the work helps to explain some of the details of fertilisation. End...

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Seven-day NHS 'impossible under current funding levels'

A seven-day NHS is "impossible" to achieve with the current funding and staffing levels, the chief executive of NHS Providers says. Chris Hopson told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that "something has to give" and there should be a debate about which services to sacrifice "rather than pretend the gap doesn't exist". Figures show waiting times and delayed hospital discharges at record levels. The government says it is giving NHS England the...

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