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• Pill that's a thermometer could improve survival rates

  18-03-2017 23:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The e-Celsius, invented by a French company, is a wireless gadget the size of a typical drug capsule that acts as an early-warning system when a person’s temperature rises or drops to dangerous levels.
  
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• Teens are getting liver damage from overeating

  18-03-2017 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British teenagers are now being treated for cirrhosis of the liver caused by overeating. The disease, where the liver becomes scarred, lumpy and shrunken, is associated with alcoholism.
  
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• Coffee 'stops vitamin pills working'

  18-03-2017 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The heat in the drinks can dramatically reduce the effects of tablets and even kill the ‘friendly’ bacteria in probiotic foods such as yoghurts, experts at the University of East Anglia found.
  
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• Record numbers of EU nurses quit NHS

  18-03-2017 17:26
  
  Staffing crisis worsens as workers fear being unwelcome after BrexitThe number of EU nationals registering as nurses in England has dropped by 92% since the Brexit referendum in June, and a record number are quitting the NHS, it can be revealed. Related: Nursing degree applications slump after NHS bursaries abolishedRelated: NHS nurses are being cast into a perfect Brexit storm | Polly ToynbeeContinue reading...
  
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• Meningitis B warning - teenage girl died after medics ‘underestimated’ her illness

  18-03-2017 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MENINGITIS is an infection of the protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord, and can be serious when left untreated. Yesterday, a coroner ruled that a teenager died from the illness following a “gross failure” in her medical care.
  
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• DR MAX: How can we retain junior doctors in the NHS?

  18-03-2017 12:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When I was at medical school, there were no fees and, because my family were poor, I got a full grant of £5,000 a year. I was incredibly grateful, says DR MAX.
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the adult bed-wetter

  18-03-2017 10:00
  
  No one will ever want to share a bed with me. No one will love meI always wait until everyone has left our student house to tiptoe to the shower. You probably wonder why I wake up so early or late. Or why I do the laundry so often, and never invite anyone into my room. It is because I live in shame.I have wet my bed every single night for the past 23 years. I use adult diapers, but sometimes even those are not enough to keep everything dry. When I wash, I use different shower gels each time, bec
  
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• Urinary tract infection could be CURED with diet: THIS vegetable could ease UTI symptoms

  18-03-2017 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  UTIs - also known as urinary tract infections - are caused by bacteria which is normally found in the intestines. However, if this bacterium is transferred to the urinary tract, it can lead to infection.
  
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• Don't stick your head in the sand – how to prepare for old age

  18-03-2017 07:30
  
  As we live longer, the numbers of people needing care is also soaring. So what help can those trying to access a creaking, cash-starved system expect?When I was 16, I spent two months in Italy with my maternal grandparents – then both 88. My grandmother had fallen over some months previously and was bedridden, but my grandfather was still active, physically and mentally; we would regularly play Scopa – an Italian card game – together. His memory rendered him unbeatable.The fami
  
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• 'Healthiest hearts in the world' found

  18-03-2017 02:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A group of people in Bolivia could teach us all how to look after our hearts better, say researchers.
  
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• New cholesterol drug helps slash risk of heart attack

  18-03-2017 02:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Statins patients injected with Repatha were 27 per cent less likely to have a heart attack. The drug is able to cut levels of 'bad' LDL cholesterol, which furs arteries. Up to 10 million take statins.
  
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• New drug cuts 'bad' cholesterol by 60% on average, reducing heart attack risk

  18-03-2017 01:46
  
  Trial of 27,000 patients found that those taking drug evolocumab saw their levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol fall A new drug can prevent heart attacks and strokes by cutting bad cholesterol levels, scientists have found.An international trial of 27,000 patients found that those who took the drug evolocumab saw their bad cholesterol levels fall by about 60% on average. Continue reading...
  
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• Drug which cuts 'bad' cholesterol can help prevent heart attacks and strokes

  18-03-2017 01:46
  
  Trial of 27,000 patients found that those taking drug evolocumab saw their levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol fallA new drug can prevent heart attacks and strokes by cutting bad cholesterol levels, scientists have found.An international trial of 27,000 patients found that those who took the drug evolocumab saw their bad cholesterol levels fall by around 60% on average. Continue reading...
  
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• Lily Beddall: Girl with Down's syndrome models for Matalan

  18-03-2017 01:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A two-year-old toddler with Down's syndrome has been chosen as one of the new faces of Matalan.
  
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• Rural deprivation and ill-health in England 'in danger of being overlooked'

  18-03-2017 01:01
  
  Popular idea of an affluent idyll is far from the truth, report warns, with official statistics failing to capture significant inequalities across communitiesRural communities are in danger of being overlooked when it comes to poverty, deprivation and ill-health, warns a new report from Public Health England.In England 9.8m people – or 19% of the population – live in rural settings ranging from coastal villages to market towns to large, open expanses like the Yorkshire Dales.Continue
  
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