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• Shangri-La is in Surrey!

  19-02-2017 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Retirement communities like Whiteley Village (pictured) near Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, can help women live years longer than the national average- partly due to increased social interaction.
  
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• Donor mum who helped her daughter’s best friends to live

  19-02-2017 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ella Murtha, 32, from Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, decided to donate her mother Tish's kidneys. She received letters from the families of Jane Holmes, 43, and Teresa Saunders, 40,
  
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• How Huntington's Disease ravaged a young mother

  19-02-2017 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Heartbreaking images show the ravaging effects of Huntington's Disease, after 20-year-old Becky Aspinall, from Oxton, Merseyside was diagnosed eight years ago and can no longer walk.
  
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• Norma McCorvey obituary

  19-02-2017 17:23
  
  Plaintiff known as Jane Roe in the groundbreaking 1973 US legal case over the right to abortionJane Roe, the anonymous plaintiff in the Roe v Wade case by which the US supreme court legalised abortion, became an icon for feminism. But the real Jane Roe, Norma McCorvey, who has died aged 69 of heart failure, was an unlikely heroine, unwilling to take the spotlight and uncomfortable with it when she finally did. Then she underwent a Damascene conversion and became an equally iconic anti-abortion c
  
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• Doctors condemn delay in brain-damaged man's move to care home

  19-02-2017 16:23
  
  Case of Malcolm Steward is described as ‘shocking’ and is seen as further evidence of severe bed shortages in intensive careDoctors and health experts have condemned the “shocking” delays in moving a brain-damaged man to his new care home as further evidence of serious bed shortages in intensive care.Malcolm Steward, 63, has spent months more than 100 miles from his wife. He cannot go to a care facility in Devon because of limited space at the nearby Torbay hospital. It d
  
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• How your MRI scan benefits science

  19-02-2017 07:00
  
  A precise map of a living brain is of immense interest to researchers – but won’t always help the patientSir Peter Mansfield, who died on 8 February, won the Nobel Prize in 2003 for pioneering magnetic resonance imaging. MRI, and the detailed images it produces, has been a huge benefit for the study of the brain. Its greatest innovation is allowing us to see which parts of the brain have been damaged while a patient is still alive. In the past, we had to wait until a postmortem to fi
  
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• Compulsive behaviour? It may make more sense than you think

  19-02-2017 07:00
  
  Some compulsions are simply expressions of psychological needs we all feelThere are endless motivations for human behaviour, from the basic drives for food and sex to more complicated ones, such as compassion, envy and anger. But none of these explain behaviours that we feel irresistibly, often inexplicably, driven to engage in – compulsions.Compulsions come from a need that is desperate and tortured. They may bring relief, but they bring little enjoyment, and while one part of our brain d
  
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• Devices used in NHS valve surgery is contaminated

  19-02-2017 06:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alan Diplock (pictured with his daughter Kerry-Anne Orakwusi), a fisherman from Peacehaven, Sussex, died from mycobacterium chimaera (MC) last year when he was 65 years old.
  
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• NHS royal commission should assess long-term future, says Lord Saatchi

  19-02-2017 04:17
  
  Tory peer says inquiry could ‘detoxify reforms that otherwise may be too politically dangerous to pursue’A royal commission should be set up to examine the long-term future of the National Health Service, a senior Tory peer has said.Former Conservative chairman Lord Saatchi said a commission could take the issue out of politics and “detoxify” any changes that needed to be made. Related: Charities call for NHS to stop rationing critical careRelated: Share your experiences
  
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• The £2billion epidemic of waste in the NHS

  19-02-2017 03:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Royal Berkshire in Reading almost paid £855 for a simple blackout blind. Some hospitals have been paying twice as much for loo roll as others. Several had to ditch pricey drugs because of faulty fridges.
  
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• Smokers trying to quit hit by postcode lottery as GPs ration help

  19-02-2017 01:02
  
  Health experts warn of rising death rates and a false economy as cutbacks hit treatmentSmokers in England wanting to quit face a postcode lottery as cash-strapped councils and GPs restrict access to services that can help them.The revelation has alarmed health experts and charities who claim that lives are being put at risk as a result of the fragmented provision. Related: 'Extinction therapy' could help smokers kick habit, study suggestsContinue reading...
  
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• MEN HEALTH WARNING: Males at risk of GLAUCOMA by failing to seek early medical attention

  19-02-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MEN put themselves at risk of blindness by failing to seek medical attention when eye problems first appear, a study reveals.
  
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