Community pharmacists are being asked to take part in a clinical audit on bowel cancer as part of a national campaign to raise awareness of signs and symptoms of the disease.

Four new members have joined the board of trustees at Pharmacy Support, the independent charity for pharmacists and their families, former pharmacists and pharmacy students. Professor Peter Noyce, Steve Churton, Professor Denis Anthony and Richard Fass started their three-year terms last month.

Meanwhile LanesHealth in Gloucestershire have promoted David Cole to the board of directors as sales and marketing director. In his new role Mr Cole will be responsible for UK sales in addition to marketing and new product development.

Yesterday the government lost a House of Lords vote on its NHS reforms after peers demanded mental health be made more of a priority in the health and social care bill, the BBC reports.

The Telegraph reports that the number of teenagers below the age of consent who were given contraceptive implants last year was six times higher than five years ago.

Scientists have discovered that men can inherit a form of heart disease from their father through the Y chromosome, the BBC reports. 

The charity, Children's Food Campaign, has made a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority after claiming that more than 50 websites market junk food to children, the Telegraph writes.

Finally, scientists at Tel Aviv University claim that eating chocolate cake for breakfast will help people to lose weight and keep it off, the Daily Mail reports.