Drop Cough medicines and go for traditional home made remedies with lemon or honey- Doctors

NHS bosses and leading GPs approve the traditional home made remedies with lemon or honey for cough. 

Cough medicines, which usually cost between £3 and £5 for a small bottle, are part of an over-the-counter healthcare industry worth £3 billion a year.

But the NHS Choices website advises: 'There's little evidence to suggest cough medicines actually work, although some ingredients may help treat symptoms associated with a cough, such as a blocked nose or fever.'

The webpage adds that the 'simplest and cheapest' treatment for a 'short-term cough' may be a homemade remedy containing lemon and honey.

It continues: 'There's no quick way of getting rid of a cough caused by a viral infection. It will usually clear up after your immune system has fought off the virus.'

Dr Tim Ballard, vice chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, today backed up the NHS claim.

He said: 'The medical evidence behind cough medicines is weak and there is no evidence to say that they will reduce the duration of illnesses - as such, GPs are unlikely to prescribe them.'

A Which? investigation two years ago said found many popular cough medicines do not work as well as they claim to.

The report authors concluded that studies used to support the claims of effectiveness are often low quality.

Many also contain high doses of sugar, with one week of the adult maximum dose of a popular product containing as much sugar as five Mars bars.

The Proprietary Association of Great Britain, a national trade association representing the consumer healthcare industry, released a statement after Benylin was contacted for a comment.

It said: 'Cough medicines will not "cure" a cough, but they can help relieve the symptoms.

'The key to effective management of cough is to identify the most troublesome symptom and to choose an appropriate product.

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Advert showing woman's breast causes around 517 accidents in Moscow... "i was distracted by the picture"

An advertising campaign showing a woman's breasts has been blamed for more than 500 traffic accidents in one day.

The massive adverts placed on the side of 30 trucks driving around Moscow showed a woman's breasts cupped in her hands with the slogan 'They Attract' across her nipples.

As the trucks trundled around the streets of the Russian capital, they left a trail of carnage as male drivers became so distracted they ploughed straight into each other.

A total of 517 accidents were reported.

The stunt, by an advertising agency specialising in mobile adverts, backfired after police sent out patrols to round up all the vehicles and impound them until the risque images could be removed.

Motorist Ildar Yuriev, 35, said: 'I was on my way to a business meeting when I saw this truck with a huge photo of breasts on its side go by.

'Then I was hit by the car behind who said he had been distracted by the truck. It made me late and left my car in the garage, and although I am insured I am still out of pocket.'

Furious drivers across Moscow have reportedly bombarded the agency with compensation claims.

A spokesman for the Sarafan Advertising Agency, which organised the promotion said: 'We are planning to bring a new advertising format onto the market, encouraging companies to place their ads on the sides of trucks, as we thought this would be a good alternative to putting them on the sides of public transport.

'We wanted to draw attention to this new format with this campaign' he explained.

And he added: 'In all cases of accidents, the car owners will receive compensation costs from us that aren’t covered by their insurance.'

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Miley Cyrus apologises to Brisbane fans for feeling 's*****'

She's made straddling a giant inflatable hot dog her signature on stage move.

And it looks like Miley Cyrus has become rather attached to her oversized 'wiener'.

Sitting astride her go-to prop during a performance in Brisbane on Wednesday the 21-year-old shouted to the crowd, 'You know these are some of the last shows on the Bangerz tour and you what I'm going to miss?

'I'm going to miss riding this big f****** wiener every night'.

Departing the arena on her flying 'wiener' Miley had these last words for her fans, 'Enjoy your life and be happy.

'That's all that f****** matters.'

The controversial popstar was performing at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Wednesday night as part of her Bangerz tour of Australia when she apologised to Brisbane fans for an under par performance, after explaining she had come down with the flu.

'You've probably seen on my Instagram that since I've been in Australia I've been up to no f****** good.

'Well I guess it's catching up with me today because I woke up this morning feeling pretty f****** s*****.

Cyrus asked the crowd to sing extra loud to help her get through the show. 'You guys are going to have to sing f****** hard to help me but we're still going to have a good time and we're still going to get f***** up.

If Miley's Queensland fans were disappointed they didn't show it.

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Arsene Wenger is a managerial 'giant' and replacing him will be their 'biggest challenge'- Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis

Gazidis told the club’s official website: “So much of the attention on a football club is around an individual and that’s very understandable at Arsenal because we have a giant who’s managing us.

“Arsene has been a fantastic driver and has put the club in a great, great position.

“The biggest challenge we’re going to face as a club is that, when the transition from Arsene to the next manager of our football club happens – and I don’t know what that’s going to be – that we come through that strongly.”'

Gazidis is confident that Arsenal will get a decisive call right, with Wenger having laid the foundations for the club to continue competing alongside the world’s best – with an FA Cup triumph in 2013/14 bringing to an end a nine-year wait for major silverware.

He added: “Winning the FA Cup was a fantastic moment.

“In my life, that’s one of my greatest moments. The moment you get away from the euphoria of the moment, the next question is, ‘How do we have more of that?’

“We want this football club to be at the top of the world’s game. If the manager believes in someone like Mesut Ozil, he can buy him. It’s the same with Alexis Sanchez.

“Underneath that tip of the iceberg, those star signings that we talk a lot about, there’s an awful lot else going on. Our youth development, for example, is going to be the foundation of this football club going forward.

“Where we are currently is off the shoulder of the world’s top teams. I don’t think we’re at that level yet, but that’s where we’re aiming to get to. We want Arsenal to be in that elite group of football clubs around the world.”

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