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• HEALTH NOTES: Go with the Flow to dodge air pollution

  11-02-2017 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world’s first air pollution tracker has been launched in an effort to help cyclists and other commuters steer clear of toxic ‘hotspots’ while travelling in cities.
  
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• Dog sedative could save thousands from suffering delirium

  11-02-2017 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A British-Chinese study found that giving patients adose of dexmedetomidine, a drug commonly used in veterinary medicine as an anaesthetic, during surgery, can reduce the prevalence of delirium.
  
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• Protesters face off as U.S. abortion debate heats up

  11-02-2017 20:11
  By Lacey Johnson and Richard McKay WASHINGTON/MARIETTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Anti-abortion protesters rallied at scores of Planned Parenthood clinics on Saturday to urge Congress and President Donald Trump to strip the health services provider of federal funding, while supporters of the organisation staged counter-demonstrations around the United States. With anti-abortion groups expecting protests at up to 225 clinics, Planned Parenthood supporters organised 150 protests of their own at parks, gover
  
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• Controversial new IVF plans to help save the NHS money

  11-02-2017 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In light of the NHS financial crisis, Richmond CCG is proposing to change its policy on who will be able to undergo fertility treatment in a bid to make £13million in savings in the next year.
  
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• Cure your insomnia in a week with Jason Ellis's plan

  11-02-2017 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Studies show at least 30 per cent of Britons are affected by an acute attack of insomnia, while 10-15 per cent have chronic insomnia. It affects twice as many women as men and increases with age.
  
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• Polish government accuses media of playing up accidents involving senior officials

  11-02-2017 18:05
  Poland's conservative government accused the media on Saturday of publicising car accidents involving government officials more than in previous years, as Prime Minister Beata Szydlo remained in hospital after a car crash. Szydlo was hurt when her car hit a tree in southern Poland on Friday, the third road accident involving a government motorcade since the eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) came to power a little bit more than a year ago.
  
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• Ex-VW chairman Piech refuses to testify in German emissions inquiry

  11-02-2017 17:53
  HAMBURG/BERLIN (Reuters) - Ex-Volkswagen Chairman Ferdinand Piech, who resigned after a showdown with former chief executive Martin Winterkorn, has refused to testify to German lawmakers investigating a possible government's role in the VW emissions scandal, according to his lawyer. Piech, also VW's former CEO who spearheaded the carmaker's global expansion, gave testimony to lawyers of U.S. law firm Jones Day last April and to German prosecutors in Braunschweig near VW's Wolfsburg headquarters
  
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• Two-thirds of young hospital doctors under serious stress, survey reveals

  11-02-2017 12:46
  
  Trainee anaesthetists complain of fatigue, disillusionment, ‘burnout’ and fears for patients’ safety as pressure mounts on NHSAlmost two out of three young hospital doctors say their physical or mental health is being damaged because pressures on the NHS are putting them under intolerable strain.Many are so relentlessly busy that they go through entire shifts without eating or drinking, while others suffer stress, burnout, exhaustion and sleeping problems. Relationships with fa
  
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• Phiippines dismisses about 100 policemen for using drugs

  11-02-2017 11:38
  The Philippine police have sacked nearly 100 policemen since the start of the year because they were found to be drug users, a top official said on Saturday, in a clean-up of the ranks after President Rodrigo Duterte halted police anti-drug operations. More than 7,700 people have been killed since Duterte unleashed his bloody war on drugs seven months ago, about 2,500 in police operations, while the rest are being investigated. Duterte had been unwavering in defending the police in the face of i
  
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• Activists on both sides of abortion issue to protest across U.S

  11-02-2017 11:07
  By Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anti-abortion groups have called demonstrations at more than 200 Planned Parenthood locations throughout the United States on Saturday to urge Congress and President Donald Trump to strip the women's health provider of federal funding. Planned Parenthood supporters in turn have organised 150 counter-demonstrations outside politicians' offices and government buildings. Anti-abortion activists have said they were energized by the election of Republican Trump,
  
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• Cancer Research UK: Cambridge scientists awarded £20m grant

  11-02-2017 10:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists awarded a £20m grant to study breast cancer using virtual reality.
  
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• Why this feeble cure for health tourism won’t work

  11-02-2017 10:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This was it: an opportunity for the government to show that it was listening to growing concerns about health tourism. I had high hopes and when I heard what was being proposed, they were dashed.
  
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• UK's cash-starved parks at tipping point of decline, MPs warn

  11-02-2017 09:01
  
  Slashed budgets risk the nation’s 27,000 parks becoming no-go areas, with negative effects on park-goers’ health and the environment
  The UK’s cash-starved parks are at a tipping point of decline, MPs have warned, with severe impacts expected for park-goers’ health, community cohesion and the environment.The nation’s 27,000 parks are highly valued by their 37 million regular users, but funding has plummeted in recent years as local authority budgets have been slashed
  
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• New Zealand rescuers form human chain to help stranded whales

  11-02-2017 07:19
  By Harry Pearl SYDNEY (Reuters) - Whale rescuers in New Zealand linked arms in neck-deep water on Saturday to try and prevent about 200 pilot whales from stranding themselves again in a remote bay, where 300 of the animals died this week. The incident, in the shallow muddy waters of Golden Bay, at the northwest tip of South Island, was New Zealand's largest known whale stranding since 1985, when 450 of the animals were stranded in Auckland, and the third largest on record. A group of about 100 v
  
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• Iranian baby with heart defect to undergo surgery soon

  11-02-2017 06:29
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Iranian infant soon will have life-saving heart surgery in Portland after she was temporarily banned from coming into the U.S. by President Donald Trump's immigration order.
  
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• What diet cheaters eat: how we give in after diet starts

  11-02-2017 05:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cheat days have come to be seen as much a part of our diets as following a structured eating plan. Digital Third Coast surveyed 1,000 Americans to learn more about their cheat day habits.
  
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• Microbead in facial scrub got lodged in my eyeball

  11-02-2017 02:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gail Hart (pictured), 43, of Iver, Buckinghamshire, was using Garnier Pure Active Deep Pore Wash when she felt an intense discomfort in her right eye and a scratching feeling against her eyeball.
  
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• Back in control

  11-02-2017 02:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How I overcame anorexia and what to look for if you're worried someone you know has an eating disorder
  
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• Scandal of false positives as Kelly Clarkson reveals scare

  11-02-2017 02:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kelly Clarkson revealed she was given false results that said she had cancer the day of the 2006 Grammy's. A new Illinois study reveals women are less likely to have a follow-up after a false positive.
  
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• NHS hospital becomes the first to recruit a sepsis team

  11-02-2017 02:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jack Adcock (pictured) suffered a cardiac arrest at Leicester Royal Infirmary after staff failed to diagnose him correctly. Since then, the trust has been ordered to improve its handling of sepsis.
  
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• Fitness trackers turning us into nation of insomniacs

  11-02-2017 01:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Paul Gringras, sleep specialist of Evelina London Children’s Hospital, who tests the devices, said he has never found a high street version which can be fully relied upon.
  
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• Nepalese burns victim celebrates marriage after surgery

  11-02-2017 01:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. Tej Bahadur Biswokarma, 21, from Kalikot, in Nepal, had spent most of his life on a liquid diet and was unable to speak after an oil lamp blew up in his face.
  
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• NHS 'pays £7.5m a year for 20 most expensive agency doctors'

  11-02-2017 01:03
  
  Watchdog says health service could save £300m a year if locums charged within set price cap, after data found some are paid £375,000 a yearThe NHS is paying agency doctors millions of pounds every year – with one having charged £363 an hour, according to a health watchdog. Data from NHS Improvement shows that 20 of the most expensive locums cost the NHS £7.5m a year – an average of £375,000 each. Continue reading...
  
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• 'No-brainer' or no-no? Congress split on probing Trump tax returns

  11-02-2017 00:57
  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats on Friday said the U.S. Congress should obtain President Donald Trump's tax records to examine possible conflicts of interest, although Republicans showed little interest in taking action. "This is a no-brainer, for crying out loud," said Democratic Representative Bill Pascrell, a House Ways and Means Committee Democrat who asked the panel this month to request Trump's federal tax returns from the U.S. Treasury. The Ways and Means Co
  
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• Viral photo of mother's milk proves breast IS always best 

  11-02-2017 00:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Breast milk has been proven to have antibody fighting properties. A recent Facebook post by a British biosciences student is going viral for showing how breast milk kills bacteria.
  
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• Residents say 1st atom bomb test caused cancer cases

  11-02-2017 00:32
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Residents say the world's first atomic bomb test caused generations of southern New Mexico families to suffer from cancer and economic hardship, according to surveys gathered by an advocacy group seeking compensation for descendants.
  
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