John Morris, from West London tells how nutritionists at Cambridge Nutritional Sciences helped find the cause of his health problems.

Few people are aware of the fact that the prevalence of Hepatitis C is growing year on year. In 2003 the number infected in the UK stood at 191,000 - with a 12% rise in 2006-2007. So how is it spread? The Department of Health is trying to raise awareness of Hepatitis C and encourage those who may have unwittingly been at risk either to seek support from their local physician or complete a self-assessment form on the NHS Choices website.

A shocking 90% of calls to Arthritis Care’s helpline in the last 12 months have been cries for help over pain – so this year, the charity is marking its awareness week, beginning on 20th April, by urging the UK’s nine million people with arthritis to challenge their pain and the constraints it imposes on their lives. The charity is also calling for more investment in pain management services across the country.

March is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month – a timely opportunity to remind readers to make sure they have all the facts on a disease that is diagnosed in 35,000 men in the UK every year. Tony Watts talks about the impact it has made on one man’s life: the former England and Lions rugby player Andy Ripley.

Business is booming in the strange world of “disputed wills. So do you know all you need to know about The Mental Capacity Act, which came into force in October 2007. This seemingly insignificant Act, says Judith Cork,  is something we all ought to know about because, whether we realise it or not, more of us are likely to need it in the future.

A new website has been set up to provide independent information for patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery in the UK opened this December. About 160,000 hip and knee replacements are done each year in the UK and the figures are predicted to more than treble over the next 20 years.

Older people with high blood pressure are up to 600% more likely to develop vascular dementia - the second most common form of dementia in the UK - according to new research released by the Alzheimer's Society. This opens up the potential to prevent dementia - and offers hope to the 700,000 people in the UK who live with dementia.