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• British doctors modify pig organs to treat newborn babies

  16-04-2017 22:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The procedure will be carried out next year on about ten children in the UK born with oesophagus astresia, a rare condition where the upper section of the gullet does not connect to the stomach.
  
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• ‘Get out of bed!’ scheme is more symptom than solution for the NHS | David Mitchell

  16-04-2017 11:00
  
  The latest idea to help save the NHS has much in common with alternative medicineYou don’t have to be seriously ill to realise the NHS is in trouble. In fact, ironically, some forms of serious illness would preclude the realisation. I’m sure that, as I type, delirious patients on trolleys in superbug-infested corridors are among a tiny minority of British citizens oblivious to the healthcare crisis. Let’s hope they get the treatment they need to bring into focus the desperate s
  
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• ‘End PJ Paralysis’ is more symptom than solution | David Mitchell

  16-04-2017 11:00
  
  The latest idea to help save the NHS has much in common with alternative medicineYou don’t have to be seriously ill to realise the NHS is in trouble. In fact, ironically, some forms of serious illness would preclude the realisation. I’m sure that, as I type, delirious patients on trolleys in superbug-infested corridors are among a tiny minority of British citizens oblivious to the healthcare crisis. Let’s hope they get the treatment they need to bring into focus the desperate s
  
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• Swansea University smart bandage trials 'within 12 months'

  16-04-2017 08:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The bandages would use real-time 5G technology to monitor and record what treatment is needed.
  
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• Terry Jones: ‘I’ve got dementia. My frontal lobe has absconded’

  16-04-2017 07:05
  
  The Monty Python star talks about learning to live with his illnessTerry Jones first exhibited signs that all was not well with his health in July 2014. He and his close friend Michael Palin were performing with the rest of the surviving Monty Python’s Flying Circus troupe in a show of sketches and songs, Monty Python live (mostly) at the O2 in London.“Terry was always very good at remembering lines,” recalled Palin last week. “But this time he had real problems, and in t
  
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• How the brain keeps track of time | Daniel Glaser

  16-04-2017 07:00
  
  The body clock can easily become inaccurate. So how do our bodies synchronise our circadian rhythms?Why isn’t Easter the same date each year? Unlike Christmas, it relies on different religious calenders and astronomy tricks, in particular the Spring Equinox and the full moon, meaning it is complex to co-ordinate. The most we achieve are close matches: a lunar month is just over four weeks of earth days; a solar year is near to 12 lunar months. But if you make that rule absolute, things gra
  
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• UK funding increased to fight neglected tropical diseases

  16-04-2017 04:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than one billion people in the poorest countries are affected by treatable diseases.
  
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• Charcoal is claimed to ease bloating AND beat hangovers

  16-04-2017 03:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As well as being an unlikely food colouring, charcoal is being touted as a health hero, credited with everything from banishing bloating to detoxing the body and preventing a hangover.
  
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• Pro-abortion professor calls for midwives to abort babies

  16-04-2017 03:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Campaigners have reacted with fury after Sally Sheldon said the 1967 Abortion Act has been misinterpreted in saying that only doctors could perform suction in terminations.
  
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• Elderly's free drug delivers face the axe

  16-04-2017 02:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Britons on long-term medication and unable to collect prescriptions could be charged hundreds of pounds a year for preparing drugs and home delivery as funding cuts begin to bite.
  
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• Would YOU pay £15,000 for a 'miracle' eye implant?

  16-04-2017 01:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EastEnders actress June Brown, 90, revealed she has been saved from blindness thanks to 'miracle eye surgery' - but an investigation found some patients had little or no improvement.
  
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• Elaine Paige suffers from painful plantar fasciitis

  16-04-2017 01:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  West End star Elaine Paige has paid the price of a lifetime in vertiginous high heels as the 4ft 11in 69-year-old musical legend is suffering from the painful foot condition plantar fasciitis.
  
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• Black men must face the truth about prostate cancer | Linford Christie

  16-04-2017 01:06
  
  My risk is double that of a white man my age, writes Olympian Linford Christie.
  None of us should be complacentThis summer marks 25 years since one of the greatest moments of my career, winning Olympic gold in Barcelona. It often feels like the last 25 years have flown by as quickly as the 9.96 seconds it took to run the race!A quarter of a century on and I’ve just turned 57. In my mind, I don’t feel any different to how I felt on that day in 1992. I still feel in good shape and to t
  
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• ‘I just coped’: Kirsty Wark on breaking the silence about menopause

  16-04-2017 01:05
  
  Wark’s BBC documentary is the latest example of articulate women talking about ‘the change’‘The most disconcerting side-effects were disturbed sleep and night sweats, waking up literally wrung out, with no discernible pattern to either,” says Kirsty Wark. She sounds as measured, informed and professional as is her norm when presenting Newsnight but Wark is talking about something much more personal than current affairs: her menopause.Wark is fronting a documentary t
  
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• Britain doubles funding to fight tropical diseases

  16-04-2017 01:05
  
  Programme will help protect 200 million in world’s poorest countriesThe UK has pledged to double the funding it gives to fighting neglected tropical diseases, in a move that will protect more than 200 million people around the world from debilitating and painful conditions. The funding programme is expected to wipe out the parasitic disease visceral leishmaniasis in Asia, eliminate Guinea worm and save hundreds of thousands of people from blindness and other disabilities.Speaking ahead of
  
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• Watchdog rap for on-line chemists issuing prescriptions in “seconds”

  16-04-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ON-LINE chemists are issuing prescriptions within “seconds” of receiving questionnaires and have been prescribing asthma inhalers without GP confirmation, says the UK’s leading health watchdog.
  
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• Two million wasted hospital days as NHS struggles to discharge elderly patients

  16-04-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MORE than 4,000 care home beds have been lost in the past two years as the number of days wasted in hospital to bed blocking reaches almost two million a year, a study reveals.
  
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• Heads Together Campaign: Professor Green opens up about his dad's suicide

  16-04-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RAPPER Professor Green reflects on his sad childhood scarred by suicide.
  
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