Urging people to follow low fat diets and to lower their cholesterol is having "disastrous health consequences", a health charity in England has warned.

Children at British private schools face the greatest risk from the measles outbreak and could pose a health threat to the rest of the population, a leading doctor has warned.

THE Irish Heart Foundation has dismissed as “ludicrous” a plan by one of Britain’s leading medical experts to give everyone over the age of 55 drugs to lower their blood pressure.

MORE than 2,500 people in England and Wales are likely to perish from cold in the week leading up to Christmas, experts said yesterday.