London mayor plans negative body image advert ban on Tube, buses and trains

Adverts promoting negative body images will be banned across the Transport for London (TfL) network from next month.

Major weight-loss cancer trial starting

The first major trial to see whether losing weight reduces the risk of cancers coming back is about to start in the US and Canada.

Muhammad Ali remembered as boxer who transcended sports world

The death of Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight champion known as much for his political activism as his boxing brilliance, triggered a worldwide outpouring of affection and admiration for one of the best-known figures of the 20th century. Ali, who had long suffered from Parkinson's syndrome which impaired his speech and made the once-graceful athlete almost a prisoner in his own body, died on Friday at age 74. Ali was admitted to a Phoenix-area hospital, HonorHealth, with a respiratory ailment on Monday.

Canada to make plain packaging for tobacco products compulsory

Canada, following the lead of Britain and Australia, will make plain packaging of cigarettes compulsory in a bid to cut the rate of smoking, Health Minister Jane Philpott said on Tuesday. Although Canada already obliges firms to slap large graphic warning labels on cigarette packets, Philpott said more must be done, given that some 5 million of Canada's 36 million inhabitants still use tobacco products. "I don't believe tobacco companies should be allowed to build brand loyalty with children for a product that could kill them," Philpott told reporters.

Chronic Fatigue Patients Take to the Streets

(MedPage Today) -- Global protest highlights demands for more research, physician education

Sugar tax will 'hit poorest hardest'

The proposed sugar tax will "hit the poorest families hardest" and should be scrapped, the Taxpayers' Alliance says.

Docs Lack Skills to Care for Transgender Youth

(MedPage Today) -- More education needed, but empathy should be a given, experts say