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• NHS England sending anorexic patients to Scotland for treatment

  11-12-2016 22:00
  
  Mental health experts voice concern over growing trend and say it could increase vulnerable patients’ chances of dyingThe NHS in England is sending patients who are seriously ill with eating disorders to Scotland for treatment because chronic bed shortages mean they cannot be cared for in England.
  Vulnerable patients, mainly teenagers and young adults, are being taken hundreds of miles from their homes in order to receive residential care in Glasgow and near Edinburgh.Related: Eating disor
  
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• 'I felt pushed away': Beth Grant on having to move 380 miles for anorexia treatment

  11-12-2016 22:00
  
  Beth says sending people with eating disorders far from home can make things worse and left her feeling isolatedBeth Grant, 25, has been receiving treatment for anorexia on and off since she was 13, including five months in a hospital in Glasgow earlier this year, 380 miles from her home in Hertfordshire. I was 13 when I was first diagnosed with anorexia. I didn’t have my first stay in hospital until I was in my 20s. Before that I received outpatient treatment, first through children&rsquo
  
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• Iran seals $17 billion Boeing deal, close to Airbus order

  11-12-2016 19:41
  By Tim Hepher and Sami Aboudi PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran signed a $16.6 billion deal for 80 Boeing passenger jets on Sunday and was said to be close to another for dozens of Airbus planes to complete what would be the biggest package of firm contracts with Western companies since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. The deal between IranAir and U.S. planemaker Boeing includes 50 narrow-body 737 MAX aircraft and 30 long-haul 777s, split equally between the 777-300ER, which is badly in need of an ord
  
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• Texas to launch massive youth-athlete concussion study

  11-12-2016 19:06
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — This week, Texas will launch what state officials say is the nation's largest effort to track brain injuries among young athletes.
  
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• AA Gill's final column says NHS could not give him new cancer treatment

  11-12-2016 18:11
  
  Sunday Times writer and critic, who died on Saturday, wrote that NHS ‘represents everything we think is best about us’AA Gill, the award-winning writer and restaurant critic who died on Saturday aged 62, described in his final article how the NHS could not give him a potentially life-extending cancer treatment.In a 4,000-word essay chronicling his final weeks after being diagnosed with what he described as the “full English” of cancers, Gill wrote affectionately about the
  
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• Diabetic patients could avoid daily jabs as scientists REVEAL 'promising' breakthrough

  11-12-2016 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MILLIONS of diabetes sufferers could avoid the misery of daily jabs after scientists discovered a new weapon in the battle against the condition.
  
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• Southampton man dies after ambulance took 90 minutes to get him to hospital

  11-12-2016 15:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Martin Hale, 47, from Southampton died after an ambulance too too long to arrive when he suffered a heart attack and collapsed. The wait left the type one diabetic without oxygen for too long.
  
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• Diets rich in butter, cream and cheese may actually protect you from heart disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes

  11-12-2016 14:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For decades we were told that eating fat would clog our arteries and send us to an early grave, but a current study published in a leading medical journal disproves this theory.
  
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• What makes celebrity meltdowns entertainment instead of tragedy? | David Ferguson

  11-12-2016 14:00
  
  Spurned in the Grammy nominations shortly after a hospital stay, Kanye West is just the latest celeb whose mental health is tabloid goldWhen I was in my 20s, I remember my therapist patiently listening to me complain about how out-of-my-depth I often felt around other gay men. I was asking her why they always seemed so effortlessly aloof and cool, whereas I was – and to some extent, still am – a slobbering golden retriever of a person, quivering with eagerness to be your new best fri
  
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• AA Gill: Final article describes cancer treatment

  11-12-2016 11:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Critic AA Gill, who died on Saturday, said he could not get potentially life-extending cancer therapy.
  
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• AA Gill said NHS could not give him new cancer treatment in final column

  11-12-2016 10:47
  
  Sunday Times journalist, who died on Saturday, was told immunotherapy treatment was not available on the NHSAA Gill, the revered critic who died on Saturday aged 62, described in his final article how the NHS could not give him a cutting-edge, potentially life-extending cancer treatment but triumphed on a human level where private healthcare does not. Described as “a giant among journalists”, the Sunday Times columnist died three weeks after revealing he had the “full English&r
  
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• AA Gill said NHS could not give him new cancer treatment

  11-12-2016 09:39
  
  Sunday Times journalist, who died on Saturday, was told immunotherapy treatment was not available on the NHSAA Gill, the revered critic who died on Saturday aged 62, described in his final article how the NHS could not give him a cutting-edge, potentially life-extending cancer treatment but triumphed on a human level where private healthcare does not. Described as “a giant among journalists”, the Sunday Times columnist died three weeks after revealing he had the “full English&r
  
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• The mental benefits of art history: why we must keep the A level | Daniel Glaser

  11-12-2016 07:00
  
  The government nearly junked art history but scientists have shown that scanning, fixating and lingering on a canvas has a dramatic effect on the brainJust when we thought we were going to lose art history A level, the government recently announced a reprieve. As Anish Kapoor said: ‘Art and art history are the study of what inspires and guides the poetic in us.’Studying art can have a dramatic effect on our brain activity, too. What we know changes how we look at things and
  
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• Customer wins £90k from hair salon after shampoo and rinse gives him a stroke

  11-12-2016 06:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sound engineer Dave Tyler began suffering headaches and collapsed during a business meeting two days after visiting the Headmasters salon in Brighton in 2011.
  
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• Legally dead?

  11-12-2016 02:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jewish people are traditionally wary of signing up to organ donation - but that may be changing.
  
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• From Beyonce's workout gear to a stove that cooks food and charges your phone, the Christmas gifts that are gorgeous AND good for you

  11-12-2016 02:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The time for buying Christmas presents is running out, so here is a guide to some of the best gifts you can pick up this season, be it for the outdoorsy type or those workout warriors.
  
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• Defining death

  11-12-2016 02:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jewish people are traditionally wary of signing up to organ donation - but that may be changing.
  
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• How chemotherapy-busting cooling cap that chills the users scalp can spare cancer sufferers' hair

  11-12-2016 01:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Half of patients who undergo the treatment will preserve their hair, according to the results of a landmark trial announced on Friday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
  
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• Smoke and mirrors

  11-12-2016 01:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the most repressive states in the world is trying to become one of the healthiest.
  
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• From eating turkey to walks: The healthy Christmas habits to keep for the whole year

  11-12-2016 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  GLAM rock band Slade’s wish for Christmas every day might be stretching it a bit, but some of our festive customs are worth keeping all year round.
  
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• Fat is GOOD for you! New research says cheese and cream to PREVENT diabetes and heart risk

  11-12-2016 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FAMILIES can enjoy high-fat foods this Christmas without fearing for their health after research overturned previously accepted wisdom.
  
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• 'It's life-changing'

  11-12-2016 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Twenty-two-year old photographer James is terminally ill and struggles to use a camera alone, so a designer has come up with a way to help.
  
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• The Observer view on social care

  11-12-2016 00:22
  
  The state system to care for older and disabled people is under acute pressure, and must be reformedThere is now an unprecedented consensus that the care system for older people and disabled adults in England is on the brink. It has gone far beyond the party political. Those who have spoken out include the health select committee, NHS leaders, local government leaders from all parties, independent health thinktanks and the regulator. Related: Shock figures show Tory plans are ‘making socia
  
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