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• Players: Kerr's marijuana admission could spark dialogue

  03-12-2016 23:02
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — David West has undergone four surgeries in his long NBA career: left knee, right elbow and right foot twice to fix a couple of toes.
  
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• Chelsea apologises to abused former player

  03-12-2016 22:56
  English soccer club Chelsea issued a public apology to former striker Gary Johnson on Saturday for the sexual abuse he suffered as a young player and said it had been wrong to insist on a confidentiality clause when paying him compensation. Johnson, 57, said on Friday that he had been abused by former Chelsea chief scout Eddie Heath in the 1970s, receiving 50,000 pounds from the club in settlement in 2015. Chelsea added that an external review would establish whether they carried out a proper in
  
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• Sick children moved as NHS intensive care units run out of beds

  03-12-2016 22:30
  
  Parents urged not to panic and planned operations delayed to cope with ‘record demands’ as winter sets inSeriously sick children are having to be transported long distances to receive intensive care this weekend because of a lack of beds in major cities.In England, 85% of beds available in paediatric intensive care units were full on Friday night. But some units in cities including London and Leicester have been forced to declare themselves as “at capacity”. Planned opera
  
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• Revealed: the millions paid to social care companies | Daniel Boffey

  03-12-2016 21:36
  
  Investigation into five biggest firms finds some owners were paid handsomely while an increasing number of services require improvementAn investigation into the five biggest firms providing homecare services in the UK has found millions of pounds has been paid to some owners amid a crisis in standards of care.An analysis of published reports from the Care Quality Commission, the care regulator for England, reveals that of the 192 domiciliary care services run by major companies, and inspected ov
  
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• Wales' top-paid locum doctor paid £183,000 in 2015-16

  03-12-2016 19:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wales' top-earning locum doctor was paid £183,000 in 2015-16, with the amount spent on temporary workers across Wales doubling in three years.
  
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• Can a jab of stem cells repair damage caused by a heart attack?

  03-12-2016 18:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Owen Palmer, 54, a father of four and a software manager from South-East London, became one of the first to try the new treatment, which involved a small cup of stem cells from his bone marrow.
  
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• Stephen Hawking discharged from Rome hospital

  03-12-2016 17:23
  British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking was discharged from hospital on Saturday after two days of checks, the Rome-based hospital said. Hawking, who was in the Italian capital to attend a conference at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and met Pope Francis on Monday, was taken to Rome's Gemelli hospital on Thursday night. The hospital, considered one of the country's best and where popes are treated, said Hawking was in a good condition and was returning to Britain.
  
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• Type 2 diabetes NEWS: Incurable condition Charcot foot explained

  03-12-2016 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TYPE 2 diabetes can be managed with a healthy diet and exercise, however if it is not well managed it also comes with a number of serious complications such as foot amputations. Signs and symptoms of Charcot foot explained.
  
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• Insight: For Apple and others, tin supply chain has ties to rebel-held Myanmar mine

  03-12-2016 16:03
  (Corrects to clarify that Shenmao Technology did not say it bought tin from the Wa mine) By Yimou Lee and Joel Schectman YANGON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - From a remote corner of northeastern Myanmar, an insurgent army sells tin ore to suppliers of some of the world's largest consumer companies. More than 500 companies, including leading brands such as smartphone maker Apple, coffee giant Starbucks and luxury jeweller Tiffany & Co, list among their suppliers Chinese-controlled firms that indirec
  
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• 'My FGM happened in white, midwest America'

  03-12-2016 12:02
  
  A Christian doctor removed my clitoris when I was three years old as a ‘cure’ for masturbation, writes Renee Bergstrom• Video excerpts from the feature documentary by John Chua The Cut: Exposing FGM Worldwide #StopGlobalFGM In 1947, when I was just three years old a doctor removed my clitoris. Female genital mutilation is mostly associated with African cultures, and non-Christian religions, but my FGM happened in white, midwest America. It took place in a church clinic that used
  
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• Lung cancer treatment NEWS: Breakthrough drug given green light for use on NHS

  03-12-2016 11:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LUNG cancer sufferers will now have access to a potentially life-saving new drug pembrolizumab, also known as Keytruda, after NICE recommends it for routine NHS use.
  
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• Kerr tells Comcast SportsNet Bay Area he smoked pot for pain

  03-12-2016 07:07
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Steve Kerr, the reigning NBA Coach of the Year with the Golden State Warriors, acknowledged he tried marijuana twice in the past 18 months while dealing with debilitating back pain.
  
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• McGill University find women with an active love life score better in memory tests 

  03-12-2016 06:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study has found women who have an active love life scored better in tests measuring their memory. Experts at McGill University in Canada quizzed 78 women on their sex lives before testing them.
  
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• DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: Faith can help when medicine fails... 

  03-12-2016 03:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While we like to think medicine has an answer for everything, it frequently doesn’t. There are some situations that no amount of operations, scans, blood tests or drugs are going to help.
  
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• Diet pills that claim to trigger natural weight loss have alarming side-effects   

  03-12-2016 02:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The NHS says only one ingredient, Orlistat, has been proven to help people lose weight in clinical trials. But its possible side-effects include skin blistering and kidney stones.
  
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• Hampshire mother's joy as her sons who were born at 23 weeks

  03-12-2016 00:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Born at just 23 weeks,triplets Alfie, Dylan and Connor from Havant, Hampshire, collectively weighed less than 3lb — little more than a bag of sugar and doctors warned of serious health issues.
  
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• Testosterone treatment to cure sexual dysfunction 'raises risk of blood clots by 63%'

  03-12-2016 00:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the first six months after starting testosterone, men have a 63 percent higher risk of clots in the legs and lungs than they did before beginning treatment, the German study found.
  
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