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• Crisis, what NHS crisis? Theresa May must stop this denial | Jan Filochowski

  15-01-2017 20:38
  
  I’ve turned around three failing hospitals, and I believe the NHS will keel over unless ministers start to address its problems and stop blaming GPs and patientsA few months into my first job in the NHS, some 38 years ago, I watched Prime Minister Jim Callaghan being interviewed, on his return to the UK after an international mid-winter summit in the Caribbean, about the strikes in public services that have come to be known as the winter of discontent. I and pretty well everyone worki
  
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• Depression ‘is as bad as obesity for heart disease’, claim scientists

  15-01-2017 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DEPRESSION is almost as likely to cause heart disease in men as obesity, it is claimed.
  
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• Doctors warn over cancer op cancellations amid NHS "pressure"

  15-01-2017 19:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Royal College of Surgeons says the NHS in England is facing "tremendous pressure" this winter.
  
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• GPs working longer hours won’t ease the pressure on the NHS | Letters

  15-01-2017 19:36
  
  Re your readers’ stories of the NHS (‘He stayed on that trolley in A&E for the next 12 hours’, 14 January), the government is putting out a spew of misinformation to cover the 2% reduction, as a percentage of GDP, it has imposed on funding of the NHS since 2010. The people on trolleys waiting for a bed are not the worried well who are accused of blocking up A&E departments. They are people who have already been assessed as needing beds. These beds are full not just beca
  
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• U.S. insurers get inside cars, mouths, grocery carts in profit search

  15-01-2017 19:08
  By Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twice a day, Scott Ozawa's Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush tells his dental insurer if he brushed for a full two minutes. The scheme, devised by Beam Technologies Inc, is just one of the latest uses of technology by insurers hungry for more real-time information on their customers that they say lets them assess risk more accurately and set rates accordingly. In theory, everybody wins, as policyholders adopt better habits and insurance companies save money on c
  
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• Archie Norman obituary

  15-01-2017 18:14
  
  My father, Archie Norman, who has died aged 104, was an eminent paediatrician who pioneered research into cystic fibrosis and asthma at Great Ormond Street hospital, in London, and neonatal care at Queen Charlotte’s.The son of George Norman, a radiologist, and his wife, Mary (nee MacCallum), a nurse, he was born in Oban, Argyll and Bute, and watched his father march off to the first world war. He grew up in the soot-covered mill town of Shaw in Lancashire (now part of Greater Manchester),
  
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• Tory health committee chair defends NHS chief in funding row with PM

  15-01-2017 13:38
  
  Dr Sarah Wollaston tells Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday it is not ‘strictly true’ that NHS was given more cash than it needsThe Conservative chair of the health select committee has defended the NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens, in his dispute with Theresa May over health service funding.Dr Sarah Wollaston said she agreed with Stevens’ contradiction of May’s claim last Sunday that the NHS had been given “more funding” than it required up to 2
  
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• UCL study finds people over 40 are 5 times more likely to suffer sight problems than the 1960's

  15-01-2017 12:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from University College London have found 54 percent of adults aged 40 to 69 suffer from myopia, compared to 10 percent in the 1960s and claim the rise is a 'major public health issue'.
  
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• MS patient's family plea for rethink on right to die

  15-01-2017 12:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The family of a woman who fought a long battle against Multiple Sclerosis release a harrowing set of images to support the campaign for the "right to die".
  
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• Corbyn says he relishes byelections as chance to challenge government

  15-01-2017 12:20
  
  Labour leader says Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent Central contests will be used to attack Tories on NHS, Brexit and housingA combative Jeremy Corbyn has said he welcomes the tough byelections triggered by the resignations of two Labour MPs as an opportunity to challenge the government.Tristram Hunt, a fierce critic of Corbyn’s leadership, announced on Friday that he was stepping down as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, a constituency where Ukip came second in 2015 and which voted heavily for Br
  
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• Signs of depression: Should you see your doctor if you feel down on Blue Monday?

  15-01-2017 12:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  DEPRESSION symptoms could be plaguing you - without you even realising it. As tomorrow is Blue Monday, known as the most depressing day of the year, take the time to look at your mental health and see if you might need help.
  
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• Prostate cancer: Man told to 'wait' by doctor is CURED after researching THIS treatment

  15-01-2017 12:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A PROSTATE cancer patient told to ‘sit and wait’ to see how a tumour developed has been cured after paying for private treatment abroad.
  
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• When Breath Becomes Air review - a surgeon’s life cut short

  15-01-2017 12:00
  
  Paul Kalanithi’s memoir, written after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, is rich, literary and poignantIf there was one thing neurologist Paul Kalanithi didn’t want to be when he was a boy growing up in the desert town of Kingman, Arizona, it was a doctor. He dreamed of being a writer, and immersed himself in Dickens and Whitman. When he went to college it was to study literature; and, only as an afterthought, neurology.Years later, having conquered one of medicine’s most
  
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• Star turn: tricks of the brain on seeing the night sky | Daniel Glaser

  15-01-2017 10:30
  
  You see more stars the longer you gaze at the sky, partly because your eyes adjust to the darknessThe nights may be getting shorter, but it’s still the perfect time of year for a spot of star gazing. The neurobiology of low light vision suggests this isn’t a pastime to be rushed – be patient. Stepping outside for a couple of minutes isn’t enough. The longer you look up at the sky, the better your vision becomes. This is because it takes a few minutes for your pupils to di
  
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• Kuwait says Germany-bound Eurowings flight lands over bomb scare

  15-01-2017 10:00
  DUBAI (Reuters) - A Eurowings flight travelling from Salalah in Oman to Cologne made an emergency landing in Kuwait after a bomb scare on Sunday, Kuwait's Civil Aviation Authority said, adding that authorities were investigating. "(The flight) made an emergency landing at Kuwait International Airport because of suspicion that there might be a bomb on board ... preliminary investigations are being carried out to determine if the aircraft is free of explosives," a statement published on state news
  
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• DR ELLIE CANNON: Steps to relaxing your restless legs  

  15-01-2017 04:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Restless legs syndrome is a difficult condition to treat as the underlying cause is not fully understood. Sufferers usually have an irresistible desire to move, twitch or jerk their legs, particularly at night.
  
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• 'Fitbark' claims to be the way to get your FAT FIDO fitter 

  15-01-2017 03:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Britain faces an epidemic of canine obesity, with an estimated 45 per cent of dogs said to be overweight. The question is, would Fitbark help solve the problem?
  
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• Is there ANYTHING trackers can't keep tabs on? 

  15-01-2017 03:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A range of cutting-edge devices, which focus on everything from digestive health and diabetes management to emotional wellbeing, were unveiled at a show last week in Las Vegas.
  
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• Charles Eugster says I'm proof you can get a beach body at any age

  15-01-2017 03:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With the right diet and exercise - and a determination to do battle with the consequences of inactivity - you can transform your life, writes CHARLES EUGSTER (pictured in Staffordshire).
  
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• We turned Dad from a 19st fast food junkie facing amputation into a super-fit cyclist

  15-01-2017 03:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Geoff Whitington, star of the documentary Fixing Dad, shed six stone and reversed his type 2 diabetes. In 2013, he faced the real possibility of losing his foot due to complications of diabetes.
  
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• Lemon-aid

  15-01-2017 02:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How lemons are helping to explain what breast cancer can feel and look like.
  
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