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AUDIO: Should junk food be taxed?
Wed, 16 May 2012 14:50:30 GMT BBC Radio 5 live's Tony Livesey discussed whether junk food should be taxed to help tackle obesity |
VIDEO: Ban chips on school menus, says Reid
Wed, 16 May 2012 09:51:58 GMT Big businesses should sponsor compulsory school meals, and packed lunches should be banned, says the former cage fighter and Celebrity Big Brother winner Alex Reid. |
VIDEO: Doctor's tube helps beat pneumonia
Thu, 10 May 2012 13:51:17 GMT A ventilation tube invented by a doctor to prevent the spread of pneumonia in intensive care patients is saving money as well as lives. |
AUDIO: Should the NHS risk register be public?
Wed, 09 May 2012 07:34:25 GMT The government has again defied an order to make public its own assessment of the risks from its massive changes to the NHS. The Labour MP John Healey and Health minister Lord Howe, discuss the issue. |
VIDEO: New centre to support war wounded
Wed, 09 May 2012 11:16:44 GMT A new centre to help wounded servicemen and women recover from the trauma of war has opened in Colchester. |
VIDEO: Tackling the trade in human flesh pills
Tue, 08 May 2012 14:24:50 GMT South Korea has stepped up customs inspections to stop capsules filled with powdered human flesh being smuggled into the country from China. |
AUDIO: Novartis defends eye drug cost
Mon, 07 May 2012 09:19:53 GMT The maker's of a drug that treats age-related macular degeneration, a disease that can cause loss of sight, are taking the NHS to court to block them from using a drug that costs ten times less and is just as effective, according to tests. |
VIDEO: North-east young in alcohol warning
Mon, 07 May 2012 16:10:04 GMT The number of under-18s receiving alcohol treatment in the north east of England is almost twice the national average, according to new figures. |
VIDEO: Oliver and Gerrard back obesity fight
Sun, 06 May 2012 08:32:40 GMT Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and England footballer Steven Gerrard are calling on the government to fight obesity through cookery teaching in schools. |
VIDEO: 'How eye implant helped my sight'
Thu, 03 May 2012 16:36:48 GMT Record producer Robin Millar, who has been blind for 25 years, tells the BBC's Fergus Walsh how a pioneering eye implant has helped restore some of his vision. |
VIDEO: Persistent cough 'lung cancer sign'
Mon, 07 May 2012 08:20:45 GMT A new government advertising campaign is warning the public to be vigilant about persistent coughs as they could be a sign of lung cancer. |
VIDEO: Plans for law to tackle drug-driving
Mon, 07 May 2012 08:16:28 GMT Drug-driving in England and Wales could become a specific offence, with a potential jail term and fine, under a new law expected in the Queen's Speech. |

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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick \MAF-ik\ verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.
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