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• Liver transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl dies aged 90

  05-03-2017 19:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The surgeon carried out the first successful liver transplant in 1967 and helped normalise the surgery.
  
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• Why we have a quirky love of the qwerty keyboard | Daniel Glaser

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  The ordering of letters on typewriters was designed to slow us down. Its survival is testament to our comfort with arbitary movement sequencesThe news that Tom Hanks is writing a book of short stories, inspired by his love of typewriters – he owns over a hundred – is a timely reminder of what a strange device it is.The original Qwerty keyboard, sold to Remington back in 1873, was designed to slow you down because mechanical typewriters with keys that followed each other too quickly l
  
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• I’m happy, so why do I fantasise about sex abuse? | Mariella Frostrup

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  Our imagination can be an outlet for things we wouldn’t do or condone, but craving to be controlled might be worth exploring with a therapist, says Mariella FrostrupThe Dilemma I am a woman in my early 20s, about to graduate from university and consider myself very independent with a healthy, normal, happy life. About two years ago I started watching porn. I didn’t even know what to look for, then I began to develop my own tastes and searched for specific things. What worries me is t
  
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• Made In Chelsea star Ollie Locke has a watch allergy 

  05-03-2017 04:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ollie, 29, is allergic to leather and some metal and says: ‘I got a reaction on my wrist and then tested positive for both. Now I have to swap watches regularly.'
  
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• The best way to replicate Botox to banish wrinkles

  05-03-2017 04:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There seemed one obvious way to put them to the test: volunteer my own forehead for a half-and-half trial, by using so-called ‘Botox gels’ on one side, and having the injections on the other.
  
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• Birth defect in boys 'caused by hairspray'

  05-03-2017 04:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paediatricians have suggested that using sprays – and also some colouring shampoos – could raise the risk of the genital condition hypospadias.
  
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• Aimee was left disabled after contracting Group B Strep

  05-03-2017 03:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Newborn babies are dying and being left with disabilities because of Group B Strep infection
  
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• What does air pollution do to our bodies?

  05-03-2017 01:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Shukman examines the effect that air pollution has on our bodies.
  
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• Health tourism: Europeans claiming NHS treatment rises by 400 per cent in five years

  05-03-2017 01:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE number of Europeans claiming free NHS treatment has risen almost 400 per cent in the past five years.
  
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• NHS poll finds public think service getting worse

  05-03-2017 01:05
  
  More than half of public pessimistic and feel service worsening – though most still happy with their own careGrowing numbers of Britons think the NHS is getting worse and fear for its future, a survey has found.Ipsos Mori polling last month found that 57% of people believe that the NHS’s ability to deliver the care and services it provides worsened over the last six months, up from 52% in January. One in four (24%) said it had got “much worse”, 33% “slightly worse&r
  
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• For the vulnerable, there’s no place like home | Sri Kalidindi

  05-03-2017 01:05
  
  Proposed funding cuts to supported housing in the community show a damaging lack of joined-up thinking on health and social careImagine this. You’ve suffered a debilitating mental illness, you’re admitted to hospital and, after weeks or months of treatment, you’re finally deemed stable enough to go home. Only, you can’t – the home you need in the community is not available.As a psychiatrist, this is a situation I and many others around the country encounter almost d
  
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• ‘Face-down restraint must end’: an open letter to Jeremy Hunt

  05-03-2017 01:05
  
  An open letter to the health secretary from the chiefs of eight mental health organisationsDear Jeremy HuntNew figures released by Agenda, the alliance for women and girls at risk, have highlighted the routine use of physical and face-down restraint against women and girls in mental health settings. Although government guidance is clear that physical restraint should only be used as a last resort, this research shows that in many trusts it is widespread. Continue reading...
  
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• End humiliating restraint of mentally ill people, say charities

  05-03-2017 01:05
  
  ‘Traumatising’ practice is more likely to be used on women and girlsMental health charities have called for an immediate end to the face-down restraint of patients, which is being used disproportionately on women and girls.Organisations including Mind, Rethink Mental Illness, YoungMinds and Agenda say the practice is “frightening and humiliating” and “re-traumatises” female victims of violence and sexual abuse. Related: Physical restraint in mental health unit
  
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• KATIE HOPKINS: Surgery could have been the end...

  05-03-2017 01:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In plain English, a brain tumour gave me four fits a night and seizures powerful enough to throw my shoulders from their sockets 43 times in 12 months.
  
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• Friends’ pictures on social media have biggest impact on body image

  05-03-2017 01:02
  
  Women are more likely to compare themselves with their peers than with celebritiesSeeing friends’ carefully curated selfies on Facebook is more likely to induce feelings of guilt or shame among young women, and lead to unnecessary dieting, than images of models or celebrities they see in magazines.Academics found that young women are more likely to compare their appearance with that of their peers’ images on social media than they were with celebrities on TV, adverts or other forms o
  
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• Health U-turn: Leading heart doctor says eat MORE salt

  05-03-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HEALTH guidelines on salt intake are too low and may increase the risk of a fatal heart attack, the former president of the World Heart Federation warns.
  
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• GP home visit service launched for private health buyers

  05-03-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SERVICE that will send a private GP to your door when you ask for one was launched today.
  
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