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• Mental health care of people in prison | Letters

  19-03-2017 19:34
  
  The prison and courts bill has its second reading in parliament tomorow. For the first time, the purpose of prisons will be enshrined in law. We support the Royal College of Psychiatrists in urging the government to ensure prisons meet the mental and physical health needs of prisoners. Almost a quarter of the prison population suffers from personality disorders, bipolar disorder or depression. Prisoners will eventually return to the community. When they are released, any untreated mental illness
  
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• Women 'should be told' sex of foetus in pregnancy scan

  19-03-2017 15:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Women should be told sex of their baby as it is their body, their foetus, says leading obstetrician.
  
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• Restoring my femininity after cancer

  19-03-2017 14:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kat Parker, from Plymouth, said the damage to her hair from the cancer treatment left her feeling "unfeminine".
  
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• Cannabis users 'more likely to have a heart attack'

  19-03-2017 14:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Users in their late 20s were three times more likely to have a cardiac illness. Researchers in Ohio said users are tend to have higher blood pressures and are more likely to drink heavily.
  
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• 'New thalidomide' scandal over 1960s pregnancy test pill

  19-03-2017 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A pregnancy test pill given to more than a million British women in the 1960s and 1970s may have caused severe birth defects and life-threatening abnormalities in thousands of cases.
  
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• Both genders can suffer 'post-coital dysphoria' after sex

  19-03-2017 08:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from Queensland University of Technology in Australia has found PCD is ‘not uncommon’ in men.
  
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• NHS services face 'impossible' budget crisis, health trusts warn

  19-03-2017 08:07
  
  NHS Providers says operation waiting lists and delays at A&E departments will soar next year under predicted fundingFrontline NHS services face “mission impossible” in meeting next year’s targets, health trusts have said.Longer waiting lists for operations and delays at accident and emergency departments in England loom under the present financial constraints, said NHS Providers, a trade association that represents acute, ambulance, community and mental health services. Rel
  
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• The health benefits of growing purple potatoes

  19-03-2017 07:00
  
  Purple tatties not only look good – they could help ward off strokes and heart diseaseOK, I’ll admit it. In the past I haven’t been resoundingly positive about growing potatoes. That’s because on my tiny plot in Croydon I have found growing the commercial white varieties (think King Edwards) delivers crops with taste and nutrition much like those in the shops, just in exchange for a whole lot more time and effort. Compare this to the almost night and day difference betwee
  
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• My friend told me not to freeze my eggs and now I'm childless

  19-03-2017 07:00
  
  Blaming your friend for a decision you took in the past will not solve your problem. Channel your anger into tackling your possibilities for conceptionThe dilemma At the age of 35, I was single and childless, so I considered egg freezing. I found a clinic, sorted out transport and worked out costs. But before I went ahead I spoke to a close friend who strongly warned me against the idea. She stated removing eggs from your body and storing them in a freezer was silly. I respected my friend as she
  
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• How self-employment affects the brain | Daniel Glaser

  19-03-2017 07:00
  
  When you are in charge of what’s happening, movement is more graceful. But the gig economy does not allow such autonomyThe current debate about the rights of the self-employed raises the question of how much control we have over our work. Is an Uber driver really their own boss if they are controlled by a corporation? And how much does it affect work performance?A great deal, from a neuroscientific perspective. There is a crucial difference between movements you control and movements you m
  
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• HEALTH NOTES: Ben is Number One for pop girl Una 

  19-03-2017 03:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Irish-born Saturdays singer Una Healey has told how the support of her husband and family helped her overcome post-natal depression after having son Tadhg, now two.
  
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• SARA MALM shows how ten a day can be done on a budget

  19-03-2017 02:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Impossible, ridiculous, unachievable. That seemed to be the general consensus at the suggestion last month that we need ten portions of fruit and veg a day to live longer lives.
  
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• Skin creams containing paraffin linked to fire deaths

  19-03-2017 02:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Residue from creams containing paraffin can leave clothes and bedding flammable, experts warn.
  
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• How a balloon up the nose can clear your stuffy sinuses

  19-03-2017 01:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patients suffering the misery of chronic stuffy sinuses could be spared painful surgery by a simple procedure which involves a balloon being inflated inside the nose. It'll be available on the NHS.
  
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• NHS facing 'mission impossible next year'

  19-03-2017 01:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hospital bosses in England warn budget pressures will see longer waits for operations and A&E care.
  
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• Stuck for words: A girl living with selective mutism

  19-03-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IS silence golden, or a worrying phobia? Unlocking the quiet condition of selective mutism.
  
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• Drug-free cure for depression to be available across the NHS after promising trials

  19-03-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A REVOLUTIONARY drug-free magnetic wave therapy for depression is to be rolled out across the NHS after trials showed it can help up to 70 per cent of patients beat the condition.
  
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• NHS hospitals are using placenta dressing to save eyesight

  19-03-2017 00:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The placenta patches can be applied directly to the eyes of burns or trauma victims, reducing pain by up to 70 per cent and promoting wound-healing. It's being used in NHS hospital around England.
  
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