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• Hannah's Bowel Cancer Journey blogger, 20, has died

  29-01-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hannah Lyson, who has given strength to thousands of people by opening up about her battle with bowel cancer, passed away yesterday at her home in Burscough, Lancashire.
  
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• 'Paper clip' implant will keep tabs on high blood pressure

  29-01-2017 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DOCTORS have hailed a revolutionary “paper clip” implant that can cut high blood pressure in patients not responding to drugs.
  
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• Mother says GPs fobbed her off over son's TRIANGULAR head

  29-01-2017 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sophie Murray, 22, from Worthing, Sussex, said she spent over a year hounding her GP for answers before self-diagnosing her son Finley online by searching 'triangle head baby'.
  
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• GPs get £20m scheme to help them cope with stress

  29-01-2017 21:59
  
  Counselling and treatment for mental health issues to be offered, in the hope of boosting UK retention in the professionFamily doctors with heavy workloads are to receive specialist help to cope with the stress of their jobs in a groundbreaking new NHS initiative.All 55,000 GPs in England will be able to seek counselling or medication from mental health nurses and psychiatrists in a £20m scheme to keep them healthy. The NHS GP Health Service will be trialled in 13 areas and then rolled out
  
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• Girl, six, needs £65,000 for life-changing surgery in US

  29-01-2017 19:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mother of a six-year-old girl from North Wales, who is unable stand up due to a condition which has given her lopsided legs, is raising £65,000 to send her to the US for life-changing surgery.
  
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• Cancer drugs price rise 'costing NHS millions'

  29-01-2017 19:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some cancer drugs that are no longer under patent are rising in price when they should be falling.
  
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• Many do not want a fair society, it seems | Letters

  29-01-2017 19:16
  
  We have witnessed a wide range of policies with the prime purpose of reinforcing the belief that individuals are responsible for their own destinyThe central argument of your leader column that “most people would like to live in a society that is fair, where merit is rewarded and every child has a similar chance of health and happiness” is very questionable (The class ceiling: entrenching disadvantage, stalling mobility, 26 January).What we have witnessed during the last seven y
  
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• NHS intensive care 'at its limits' because of staff shortages

  29-01-2017 18:43
  
  Units are so overwhelmed that life-saving operations are having to be delayed, warn senior doctorsThe NHS’s network of intensive care units is “at its limits” because they are overwhelmed by staff shortages and the sheer number of patients needing life-or-death care, senior doctors are warning in an unprecedented intervention.
  Intensive care units (ICUs) are becoming so full that patient safety is increasingly at risk because life-saving operations – including heart, abdo
  
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• Mediterranean diet key to fighting against osteoporosis in old age

  29-01-2017 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MEDITERRANEAN-style diet may help protect women against the misery of osteoporosis.
  
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• Mother gives four-year-old son a kidney to save his life 

  29-01-2017 18:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sarah and Joe Lamont (pictured together), from Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, are recovering after their ops at separate hospitals in Birmingham.
  
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• Pakistan acquits 112 in case of torching Christian homes over blasphemy rumour

  29-01-2017 15:05
  A Pakistani court acquitted 112 suspects in the 2013 torching of hundreds of Christian homes in the eastern city of Lahore over a rumour that one of the residents there had blasphemed, a lawyer said on Sunday. In March 2013, more than 125 homes in Lahore's Josep Colony were burned by a mob of more than 3,000 Muslims responding to rumours that a local Christian man, Sawan Masih, had made derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammad. Defence lawyer Ghulam Murtaza Chaudhry said an anti-terrorism c
  
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• Donald Trump's Big Macs, bacon and Doritos – deconstructing his diet

  29-01-2017 15:00
  
  The US president has five chefs, but doesn’t appear to be getting his five a day. A dietitian reveals what that means for his health – and his headYou’re the world’s most powerful man, moving into the world’s most famous address. Your staff includes five full-time chefs, which is four more than most cafes. So what’s top of president Donald Trump’s shopping list? Lay’s potato chips and Doritos, that’s what.Ah, crisps! Just the ticket for power
  
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• How the brain stores memories | Daniel Glaser

  29-01-2017 10:30
  
  Memory loss is gradual but, unlike computers, we have inbuilt backupsEvery week there is a new dementia study, raising hopes that we can find a way to halt memory loss. Interestingly, in any form of dementia our memories don’t vanish immediately but fade gradually – our memory systems have a property known as ‘graceful degradation’.In a computer, each item of information is stored in a specific location. If part of the memory or hard drive becomes corrupted, a specific fa
  
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• Second missing Pakistani blogger found, leaves country fearing for life - family

  29-01-2017 10:25
  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani blogger Aasim Saeed who went missing earlier this month has been found but has quickly left the country fearing for his life, his family said on Sunday. Saeed's father said his son was detained by "state agencies" while visiting Pakistan from Singapore, though he did not name which one. Pakistan's government and Federal Investigation Agency have denied holding any of five liberal activists who went missing this month.
  
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• Ex-Panama dictator Noriega let out of prison for brain surgery

  29-01-2017 06:11
  Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega has been released from prison for three months to have surgery to remove a brain tumour, his lawyer said on Saturday. Noriega, who ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989, left prison under heavy police guard to undergo treatment ahead of the surgery planned for Feb. 15, and was taken to the apartment of one of his daughters in an upscale part of Panama City.
  
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• Woman impersonated lawmaker's wife, snuck into GOP retreat

  29-01-2017 04:40
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman impersonated the wife of a GOP lawmaker and snuck into the congressional Republican retreat in Philadelphia Thursday, the same day President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence appeared, retreat organizers told lawmakers late Saturday.
  
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• How to lose 7 stone but avoid getting saggy skin

  29-01-2017 02:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Surely losing weight is really easy? Don’t eat for a few weeks (or have the bare minimum) and you will lose weight on a massive scale. Job done. But it’s not actually that simple.
  
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• Ginger’s life on the street: a battle with people’s disgust, illness … and the cold

  29-01-2017 01:05
  
  Rough sleeping in England has doubled since 2010. This is one storyFor three days he hadn’t slept, at least not properly. The last time he remembered drifting off was before dawn on Tuesday. It was now 1:40pm on Friday, and Ginger was hunched in his sleeping bag on the freezing slab of north London pavement he called home. His resting place was outside a branch of HSBC, metres from Camden Town tube station. There might be more crowded locales in London but few are more frantic. Around him
  
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• Study dispels myth of links between poverty and weight

  29-01-2017 01:04
  
  Unemployed more likely than those in work to bevery thin, says reportCall it the “Benefits Street effect” – the popularity of widely held preconceptions about unemployed people. And one of the most prevalent is that jobless people are more likely to be overweight than those in work.While television documentaries and newspapers can help perpetuate this belief, academic studies also reinforce it. A series of studies have suggested that employers are biased against larger candidat
  
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• The Woodstock generation are paying the price for a lifetime of indulgence

  29-01-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE Woodstock generation is paying the price for a lifetime of indulgence as liver disease and alcohol-related mental problems run rife.
  
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• Memory Loss: Mental decline begins at 40, says scientists

  29-01-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A WOMAN’S mental sharpness starts to deteriorate far earlier than previously thought, research has revealed.
  
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• From daily walks to engaging hobbies: The best ways of resting

  29-01-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LEARNING the art of rest and relaxation can make us work better and improve performance.
  
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• HEALTH NOTES: Comfort after cancer... in a bamboo bra 

  29-01-2017 00:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Studies show up to ten per cent of the 20,000 women every year who have mastectomies and reconstruction may develop an infection around the wound.
  
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• Nutritionist Angela Dowden compares 'healthy' sausages

  29-01-2017 00:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If anything is going to break the willpower of a struggling dieter it’s the aroma of sausages sizzling in a pan. It’s probably why the low-fat brand Porky Lights has been causing a stampede in supermarkets.
  
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• New app can tell when you're about to get the flu

  29-01-2017 00:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Stanford University in California are working on study that can use information gathered on a smartwatch to determine if you are about to fall ill - before you feel sick.
  
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• Radiotherapy or the new breast cancer blaster?

  29-01-2017 00:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When I got a letter from my local hospital calling me in for a mammogram, just 12 months after my previous breast scan, I almost didn’t go, writes BBC presenter Kirsty Lang.
  
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• NHS overspends £50million on basic painkillers 

  29-01-2017 00:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Health managers could save more than £50 million a year on paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen alone if they simply bought the drugs from Asda or Superdrug.
  
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