Behind the Headlines

Global consensus on safe drinking limits 'required'

Monday Jan 28 2013

The Guardian reports that there is “little agreement … between countries on what is considered safe or sensible alcohol consumption”. This story is based on a survey of international alcohol consumption guidelines, which found...

Pill-size camera may make cancer diagnosis easier

Monday Jan 14 2013

'Doctors have made a pill-sized device that can take detailed microscopic images of inside the gullet' BBC News explains. It is hoped that this new technology will make diagnosing digestive system cancers easier…

New strain of norovirus detected

Thursday Jan 10 2013

The emergence of a new Australian strain of norovirus – the ‘winter vomiting bug’ – has featured in most newspapers today. The Daily Telegraph reports that the new strain is to blame for the record number of cases of the virus seen this winter...

Breast cancer drug studies 'subject to spin'

Thursday Jan 10 2013

The Daily Telegraph reports the alarming news "Breast cancer drug trials 'spun for impact'," saying that trial results are spun to make treatments appear more beneficial than they actually are...

Are 'turbocharged' immune cells key to cancer cure?

Friday Jan 4 2013

"Immune system 'booster' may hit cancer," BBC News reports. The headlines follow Japanese research where stem cells were used to clone and produce large numbers of a specialised type of white blood cell...

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2012 Quiz of the Year

Monday Dec 31 2012

Have you been paying attention to the health news during 2012? If so, why not try our quiz of the year…

Calls for cosmetic surgery shake-up

Monday Dec 31 2012

Public calls for tighter regulation of the cosmetic surgery sector in the wake of the PIP breast implant scandal have been widely reported in the media.

The year in headlines: 2012

Friday Dec 28 2012

Here are our favourite, most popular, most controversial and most diverting stories that we've delved into over the course of 2012...

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The Behind the Headlines' Top Five of Top Fives

Thursday Dec 27 2012

As we move towards the end of the year, like all news sources, we fall back on that classic space filler – the list story. So without further ado, here is the official Behind the Headlines' Top Five of Top Fives stories of the year...

The 'news in numbers' – a 'statistical snapshot' of a week's news

Monday Dec 24 2012

We love numbers at Behind the Headlines – statistics are our stock-in-trade. So as a fun experiment we decided to take a look at an average week of health news, break it all down, stick in a spreadsheet and see what patterns emerged…