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• Ecologist claims he is IMMUNE to attacks from the disease-carrying ticks - and his body KILLS them

  05-06-2023 19:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Richard Ostfeld has spent decades studying the critters in the Hudson Valley and has been bitten hundreds of times. It has happened so often that he has now developed immunity against them.
  
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• 'Silver tsunami' of older cancer patients to hit NHS

  05-06-2023 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cancer deaths are expected to rise by a quarter in the UK with six in 10 of those diagnoses in people over the age of 70 - up a fifth on current levels.
  
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• Global ‘silver tsunami’ of older cancer patients is coming, experts warn

  05-06-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Oncologists sound alarm over risk of healthcare systems buckling due to rising need for specific careThe world must urgently prepare for a global “tsunami” of millions of older cancer patients or risk healthcare systems being unable to cope, leading doctors have warned.With life expectancy increasing and a rapidly soaring population of older people, a looming increase in elderly patients with cancer was now a “serious public health concern”, the American Society of Clinic
  
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• The Covid deaths that did not get counted | Letter

  05-06-2023 18:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Many people died not from having Covid themselves, but because they were advised not to go to hospital or to see their GP, says Prof Sebastian LucasYour correspondent correctly says that deaths due to Covid were not properly counted (Letters, 1 June). From 2020 to 2022, I autopsied people who had died of or with Covid at the request of coroners. But many others died not from having it themselves, but because they were advised not to go to hospital or to see their GP with symptoms, or were fright
  
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• A blooming great way to explore gardens | Brief letters

  05-06-2023 18:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Open gardens weekend | Teaching kids a lesson | Sexist crossword | Laughing like a babyIf you want to explore gardens without the crowds and expense of the Chelsea flower show (Letters, 1 June), go to the London Open Gardens weekend on 10-11 June. It’s a brilliant opportunity to visit all kinds of gardens across London – smart squares, roof gardens, allotments, etc. It is good value at £20 for a two-day ticket and provides a wonderful summer weekend.Felicity CobleySwansea•
  
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• Urgent warning over 'risky' hay fever jabs sold for just £40 as UK is battered by 'pollen bomb'

  05-06-2023 17:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While people can still legally get Kenalog privately, clinics are banned from promoting prescription-only medications under UK advertising rules.
  
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• Texas becomes 17th state to ban transgender care for minors

  05-06-2023 17:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Supporters of the Texas bill signed into law last week said it was 'protecting children'. But activists hit back and accused them of 'jeopardizing' healthcare for trans youngsters in the state.
  
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• My son was born with bulging eyes and totally blind - but baffled doctors don't know why

  05-06-2023 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kobi-Jai Morgan, who is registered blind, was born in March 2022 in Ystalyfera in South Wales, with bruising around his eyes and was unable to open them.
  
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• Breakthrough in treating one of the deadliest cancers

  05-06-2023 16:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Presenting their findings at the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the experts said the treatment offers 'a potential new standard of care' for patients with limited options left.
  
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• Benefits of original Covid lockdown were 'a drop in the bucket compared to the costs'

  05-06-2023 16:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Harsh lockdown measures saved as few as 1,700 lives in England and Wales in opening phases of the Covid pandemic in 2020 a new report by Swedish and US academics has suggested.
  
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• The truth about ‘local’ food in US supermarkets: ‘It’s a marketing gimmick’

  05-06-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The term doesn’t mean that much any more, and there are other, more important factors to consider when selecting foodIf you walk into a Whole Foods in Oakland and pick up a container of non-dairy yoghurt marked “local”, you might be surprised to learn that though the company is headquartered nearby in San Francisco, the cashews the yoghurt is made of come from Vietnam, more than 7,500 miles (12,000km) away, or Ivory Coast, about 7,300 miles in the opposite direction.This yoghur
  
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• Covid inquiry chair ‘may have to quit’ if denied access to Johnson WhatsApps

  05-06-2023 14:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Lawyer for bereaved families says Heather Hallett would be unable to do job if government blocks releaseUK politics live – latest updatesThe chair of the UK Covid-19 public inquiry may have to quit if the government succeeds in its high court attempt to block the unredacted disclosure of ministers’ WhatsApp messages, the lawyer representing thousands of bereaved families has said.Elkan Abrahamson, who represents the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, which is a core partic
  
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• Cancer epidemic in young people laid bare: colorectal cancer cases in under-40s DOUBLED by 2030

  05-06-2023 14:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts believe colorectal cancer in young people will double by 2030 and be the number one cancer killer in patients under 50. Dr Christopher Lieu (right) said 'this is a humongous issue.'
  
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• YouTube is playing 30-second adverts before FIRST AID videos

  05-06-2023 14:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DailyMail.com found adverts for grocery stores and shoes blocking first aid videos made by hospital systems and paramedics. A German woman died this year after her CPR was delayed by adverts.
  
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• Sleeping apart due to snoring could improve relationships, scientist says

  05-06-2023 14:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Move into separate rooms can mark a new beginning as couple are well rested and happier, claims expertSleeping in separate rooms due to a snoring partner could improve people’s relationships rather than marking the end, a leading sleep scientist has said.Couples moving into separate rooms can enter the “beginning of a new relationship”, where they are well rested and, ideally, happier, according to Russell Foster, a professor of circadian neuroscience at the University of Oxfor
  
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• Genetically modifying T-cells cuts blood cancer progression by 74%, trial finds

  05-06-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Therapy slows multiple myeloma in patients who have stopped responding to other treatments, say researchersA revolutionary blood cancer treatment that genetically modifies patient cells to fight the disease cuts the risk of it progressing by 74%, a world-first clinical trial has found.The therapy, ciltacabtagene autoleucel, “significantly slows or stops progression” of multiple myeloma in patients who have stopped responding to other treatments, according to the study. The results we
  
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• Which foods are ultra-processed and are they bad for you? List plus expert views on health impact 

  05-06-2023 13:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite being an unfamiliar term, much of what we eat nowadays will be ultra-processed. So what does the term really mean, and are ultra-processed foods bad for you?
  
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• Britain's most calorific sausage rolls revealed... and Gregg's ISN'T the worst offender

  05-06-2023 13:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline analysis of nearly 50 options sold by supermarkets and high street chains shows that the worst offender has 480 calories - nearly as much as a McDonald's Big Mac.
  
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• Dear Jeremy Hunt, I’d love to get a job. But thanks to your social care crisis, I can’t | Denise Wilkins

  05-06-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  I had no other choice but to give up my career to become my mother’s full-time unpaid carer – and there are millions like meThe chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has been calling for people to get back to work. But there’s one group of people he’s overlooked. Many unpaid family carers like me would love to return to full-time employment. But the failure of successive governments to fix our broken social care system has left us to shoulder caring responsibilities that actively stop
  
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• The bizarre 'movement' resurrecting women's flailing libido by giving them mind-blowing orgasms

  05-06-2023 11:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Growing numbers of women in the UK and US are turning to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), the potent chemical cousin of testosterone, to help their clitorises grow.
  
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• Expert reveals 9 ways to sleep well during hay fever season

  05-06-2023 11:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sammy Margo - a sleep expert at Dreams - shared her top tips for hitting the hay - without the fever - such as using a sock filled with rice to relieve sinus pressure.
  
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• I got pregnant at the same time as my mother

  05-06-2023 11:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Melanie Warburton, 44, and daughter Keesha, 24, from Atherton, Greater Manchester went to appointments together, shopped for baby clothes and even shared a joint baby shower.
  
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• I was told I was 'too old' to get pregnant - but gave birth to a miracle baby at 45

  05-06-2023 10:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Carin Rockind, now 48, from Pennsylvania in the US, had been trying to for a baby for five years after tying the knot with her husband, Josh Klur, 52.
  
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• 'Worrying trend' as nearly twice as many young adults are not working due to ill health

  05-06-2023 08:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Most of those affected have lower levels of education, with four in five having only qualifications at GCSE-level or below.
  
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• PM to pledge £1billion to train tens of thousands of extra nurses, midwives, doctors and dentists

  05-06-2023 08:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister hopes the extra funding will help fix the NHS staffing crisis as it battles to meet demand with 112,000 vacancies.
  
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• You're more likely to have serious heart attack on a Monday than on any other day, scientists reveal

  05-06-2023 08:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Analysis of health service records shows the likelihood of a heart attack occurring is 13 per cent greater on the first day of the working week.
  
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• Don't worry if your partner's snoring forces you to sleep in different rooms...

  05-06-2023 08:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Russell Foster says ditching the earplugs in favour of separate bedrooms will improve sleep quality and therefore make couples happier.
  
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• Jump in child deaths reveals impact of industrialisation on Amazon’s Indigenous peoples

  05-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As an economic boom’s gains pass them by, people in unprotected land have been hit by hunger and disease, with infant mortality rates seven times higher than the rest of BrazilThe infant mortality rate among the Indigenous peoples of Brazil jumped by 16% last year, according to new data, as experts warn that the expansion of legal and illegal extractive industries in the Amazon rainforest has had profound effects on the health and quality of life of Indigenous people living in unprotected
  
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• Thousands of bowel cancer patients could be spared radiotherapy with no impact on their survival

  05-06-2023 01:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A trial found more than nine in ten patients who skipped radiotherapy were just as likely to be alive five years later as those who had it.
  
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• Access to contraception has got harder in England, top doctor says

  05-06-2023 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Lesley Regan, women’s health ambassador for England, says ‘destructive’ changes to NHS system in 2012 are failing womenWomen are finding it harder to access contraception than they did a decade ago, resulting in more unplanned pregnancies, the women’s health ambassador has said.They have been discouraged by bad experiences, a confusingly disjointed system and long delays for procedures such as the coil or implant insertion, according to Prof Lesley Regan, a leading gynaec
  
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• New British lung cancer drug from AstraZeneca is hailed as a 'game changer'

  04-06-2023 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ground-breaking trial found patients who received osimertinib after surgery were 51 per cent more likely to be alive five years later than those given a dummy pill.
  
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• Bowel cancer patients could be spared radiotherapy, US study suggests

  04-06-2023 19:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Doctors found some patients could rely on chemotherapy and surgery alone to treat the diseaseThousands of bowel cancer patients could be spared radiotherapy, a study suggests, after doctors discovered they could rely on chemotherapy and surgery alone to treat their disease.Radiotherapy has been used to treat bowel cancer patients for decades, but the side-effects can be brutal. It can cause problems that negatively affect quality of life, including infertility, the need for a temporary colostomy
  
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• Too few people in power really care about those with disabilities | Letter

  04-06-2023 17:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Academics and an expert adviser point to the case of Sally Lewis, whose death in a care home in 2017 prompted a depressingly familiar ‘scandal-review-inquest-lessons learned’ responseFrances Ryan suggests that disabled people in Britain are viewed more as a burden than human (A decade after the Tories demonised disabled people on benefits, it’s happening again, 30 May).Some days it feels as if “burden” is not a strong enough word to describe things. On 30 May, a cor
  
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• Four foods recommended to add to your diet to lower cholesterol levels

  04-06-2023 17:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Swapping processed foods for fresh food is among the recommendations from an expert to lower your salt intake and keep cholesterol levels healthy.
  
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• We asked AI for its top 5 tips to lose weight ... here's what it said 

  04-06-2023 16:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The powerful AI chatbot, which has quickly become an online sensation worldwide due to its rapid research abilities, told MailOnline that High Intensity Interval Training is a top tip for weight loss.
  
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• Croissants, cereal and white toast should be off the menu for breakfast, says top nutritionists

  04-06-2023 16:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cutting fruit juice and flavoured yoghurts could lower your daily intake of ultra-processed food by more than a third, says food expert Professor Tim Spector, at King's College London.
  
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• The rise of perfectionism – and the harm it’s doing us all

  04-06-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Many of us believe striving for perfection leads to success. But perfectionism is counter-productive and can result in soaring levels of stress. The answer, believes Professor Thomas Curran, is to go a little easier on yourselfAbout a decade ago, Thomas Curran, a psychology student, travelled to Australia to embark on a postdoctoral fellowship and was crushed with anxiety, exhaustion and panic attacks. Beyond making the round-the-world flight, he’d really pushed himself hard to make it the
  
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• The most and least common dates of the year to be born... are YOU one of the special ones?

  04-06-2023 14:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A map has surfaced online that shows the most common and rarest birthdays. It show more people are born in September and on day in July. But holidays are the rarest.
  
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• Six 'zombie viruses' that are being unleashed on the world right now due to climate change

  04-06-2023 14:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The viruses have turned up in mammoth wool, Siberian mummies, prehistoric wolves, and the lungs of an Influenza victim buried in Alaska's permafrost
  
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• Warning: If someone you know does this, they might be a PSYCHOPATH

  04-06-2023 14:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Studies suggest that people who do not yawn when they see someone else do it score higher on psychopathic traits. The theory is that contagious yawning is driven by empathy.
  
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• Sleep expert on 6 top tips to sleep better during humid weather

  04-06-2023 14:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Have you woken up in the very early hours of the morning, finding yourself feeling too hot and bothered to drop off back to sleep? Here's how you can resolve this issue.
  
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• Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half, says ‘thrilling’ study

  04-06-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Taking the drug osimertinib once a day after surgery reduces chance of patients dying by 51%, trials showA pill taken once a day cuts the risk of dying from lung cancer by half, according to “thrilling” and “unprecedented” results from a decade-long global study.Taking the drug osimertinib after surgery dramatically reduced the risk of patients dying by 51%, results presented at the world’s largest cancer conference showed. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘We tell them they can still laugh’ – the doctor treating the mental scars of Gaza’s children

  04-06-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The head of a charity in the strip helping people traumatised by the conflict explains why he still has hope for the futureDr Yasser Abu Jamei is an unlikely optimist, a psychiatrist running the biggest mental health charity in Gaza, where four out of five children live with depression, fear and grief.The 365 sq km (140 sq mile) Palestinian enclave on the Mediterranean – a tiny strip of land regularly bombed, heavily blockaded and desperately poor – has provided a grim laboratory for
  
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• UK trials for cancer breath tests reach final stages

  04-06-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Quick and simple tests in GP surgeries could detect cancer of the oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, colon or liverSimply blowing into a bag at a GP’s surgery could show that a patient has cancer. That is the aim of an ambitious new project that is going through its final clinical trials in the UK. If successful, cancer breath tests could be used in a few years in order to pinpoint a range of tumours in the early stages of their development.The technique is primarily aimed at detecting cancers
  
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• Five foods that could slash your risk of blood clots forming, according to a doctor

  04-06-2023 11:00 via express.co.uk
  
  From garlic to dark chocolate, a doctor recommended foods with promising nutritional profiles to stave off blood clots.
  
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• ‘Children with ADHD are being failed’: parents share their experiences of an overwhelmed system

  04-06-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Since the pandemic there has been a steep rise in cases of ADHD among children. Here, experts discuss why, parents describe their struggles and campaigners say what needs to changeAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that is shrouded in misunderstanding, uncertainty and controversy. There is, for example, no definitive agreement on how many people have the condition. In the UK, one survey has put the incident rate in childhood (five to 15 years old) a
  
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• Expert recommends the best supplements to take during the summer

  04-06-2023 08:00 via express.co.uk
  
  From zinc to omega-3s, an expert has shared the dietary supplements you should add to your summer routine.
  
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• ‘Nutrient-rich’ seed oil could help combat hair loss - promotes ‘growth and repair’

  04-06-2023 05:00 via express.co.uk
  
  The oil contains various fatty acids, vitamins and minerals that "promote" hair growth and repair.
  
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• Mum discovered cancer when pregnant with second child - assumed it was a blocked milk duct

  04-06-2023 05:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Jo Warsop thought her first cancer diagnosis was shocking enough, but her second one - over a decade later - was more emotionally challenging for her family.
  
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• Dietitian recommends five of the best breakfasts to reduce cholesterol levels

  04-06-2023 05:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Diet can play a big part in lowering cholesterol, according to dietitian Dr Richard Allison.
  
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