NEWS: NI mental health stigma: Far fewer people in Northern Ireland are owning up to mental ill health than previously, new research has revealed.
Previous findings claimed as many as one in four or one in five suffered, but a new Health Promotion Agency survey claimed the numbers admitting problems had fallen to 15 per cent. "This is reinforced by the fact that just under half of those surveyed said they would be afraid of experiencing mental health problems and more than half said if they did, they wouldn't want people knowing about it," according to the report.
A campaign aimed at destigmatising mental health is to be launched next year.
Exercise and cancer radiation side effects: Moderate but regular exercise can help women avoid some of the side effects of radiation treatment for breast cancer, US researchers said yesterday.
Researchers studied 20 women with breast cancer and found that the women who walked briskly for 20-45 minutes three-five times a week during radiotherapy treatment maintained their levels of healthy blood cells. Women who did not exercise lost significant oxygen capacity, Jacqueline Drouin of the University of Michigan-Flint and her colleagues wrote in the journal Cancer.
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- A spokesman for the National Drug Prevention Alliance in Britain, reacting to BBC presenter Graham Norton after he revealed he had taken "loads of drugs" and praised ecstasy as "just fantastic".