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Dr Steven Mann, research director at ukactive, will be hosting a series of one-to-one
surgery sessions at this year’s active-net conference.
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22 Mar 2016
The Sport England CEO talks to Matthew Campelli about the government’s new sporting strategy, and the opportunities this presents all physical activity providers
HCM issue 3 2016
Steven Ward offers an overview of ukactive’s new vision document
HCM issue 11 2015
With its use of EMS technology, just one 20-minute workout a week is all that’s needed, say the manufacturers of the miha bodytec system
HCM issue 10 2015
GP referrals for weight management and physical activity programmes are failing to curb
obesity, researchers have claimed.
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17 Jul 2015
In the past you might have expected to see them on the bowling green, but today there’s
a good chance that you’ll find an active pensioner pumping iron in the gym.
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24 Apr 2015
Tackling physical inactivity must become a frontline health priority for the UK’s next
government, ahead of the separate issue of obesity, says a new Health Select Committee
report published today.
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25 Mar 2015
Clinical trials have begun to explore the benefits that
therapeutic massage can provide in
alleviating some of the most debilitating symptoms
of breast cancer.
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17 Mar 2015
Obesity is a disease which cannot be reliably prevented or cured with current
frontline methods, according to a feature published in The Lancet.
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13 Mar 2015
There is much the health and fitness sector can do to build closer links with GPs – and with it boost the number of people being active – says Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 4 2015
Olympic team pursuit gold medallist and England Rugby’s Tom Youngs explain why they use the Wattbike as part of their training regime
HCM issue 4 2015
ukactive CEO David Stalker outlines plans to drive the skills agenda back to the top of the priority list
HCM issue 3 2015
Fitbit activity trackers are to be used to measure exercise levels for a new study which
aims to use the data to help calculate a patient’s recovery time from spine surgery.
news •
16 Feb 2015
Being severely obese can cut a person’s life short by up to eight years and cause
decades of ill health, according to a study carried out by researchers from McGill
University in Canada.
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11 Dec 2014
NHS patients in Devon are to be required to undergo weight management
courses before they are eligible to receive routine surgical procedures.
news •
04 Dec 2014
MPs attending the first ever first Parliamentary
Debate on physical activity
have agreed the government has a large role to
play in kickstarting a reversal
of the current trend towards inactivity.
news •
19 Nov 2014
The world’s first range of fitness machines which allow users
to perform controlled multi-axial exercises though all ranges
of motion has been launched by Multiple Joint Fitness
Systems (MuJo).
product innovation •
14 Nov 2014
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham believes the coalition has failed to
tackle Britain’s inactivity epidemic and has pledged that physical activity would
be a priority under a Labour government.
news •
13 Nov 2014
Kate Cracknell talks to the GP who hit the headlines for recommending walking to his patients, and finds out why he thinks more GPs should be following suit
HCM issue 11 2014
AlterG’s ‘Bionic Leg’ rehabilitation aid is the only wearable,
battery-powered robotic device that can sense the user’s
intent to move and respond accordingly.
product innovation •
21 Oct 2014
Kath Hudson offers an overview of the groups and schemes pitching to help tackle the UK’s obesity crisis
HCM issue 10 2014
Obesity is the new smoking in terms of its impact on health and cost to the
national health service (NHS), according to the organisation's England chief
executive.
news •
23 Sep 2014
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science (formerly known as the Miami
Science Museum), which is nearing the halfway stage of moving to a new
US$275m (€212m, £168.5m) facility in downtown Miami, has received a
donation of US$5m (€3.9m, £3.1m) to fund health and wellness programmes
when the new facility launches in 2016.
news •
17 Sep 2014
What can health clubs and leisure centres do to improve their weight management offering?
HCM issue 9 2014
Nuffield Health’s recent acquisition of nine Virgin Active health clubs is likely to
be followed by several more in future – with a particular focus on London – as
the healthcare organisation seeks to expand its footprint, according to deputy
chief executive KP Doyle.
news •
07 Aug 2014
ukactive CEO David Stalker has raised concerns that people are in danger of
promoting a ‘surgery first’ mentality to managing obesity-related conditions in
the wake of new draft guidelines from the National Institute of Health and Care
Excellence (NICE),which is aiming to reduce debilitating weight problems.
news •
11 Jul 2014
Reaching and maintaining an ideal body weight could be restricted by the body’s
defence mechanism, which holds onto the final few pounds to guard against
starvation, according to a group of diet experts.
news •
29 May 2014
The MD of the newly merged Nuffield Health Wellbeing talks to Julie Cramer about expanding further into prevention and wellbeing
HCM issue 5 2014
Fitness levels, not age, should be used to determine whether older people should undergo surgery, according to a new study
HCM issue 10 2013
Barefoot running is supposed to be the natural way, so can it work from a prehab point of view or does it present a new set of problems?
HCM issue 7 2013
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consumer demand for strength training with a raft of new and
innovative launches and concepts, as Steph Eaves reports
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