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• Twins who beat odds after they were born at just 24 weeks

  07-05-2017 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Born four months early, Nico and Frankie spent most of their 27 weeks apart. Nico had haemorrhages in his head and lungs but after 187 days in hospital he is finally home with his twin.
  
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• Enzyme pill could help overcome gluten intolerance

  07-05-2017 21:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Swedish scientists say the discovery could be a 'game-changer' for gluten-intolerant individuals who have to be super-careful about what they eat.
  
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• General election 2017: Conservatives pledge to end mental health 'injustice'

  07-05-2017 14:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  They want to tackle discrimination and put 10,000 more staff into mental health services by 2020.
  
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• Bad Brexit deal would be disaster for the NHS, says Jeremy Hunt

  07-05-2017 13:06
  
  Health secretary accuses some of 27 countries ‘lined up against us’ of wanting Britain to fail in negotiationsA bad deal on Brexit would be “a disaster” for the NHS, Jeremy Hunt has said, as he claimed the European commission was deliberately interfering in the general election to undermine the Conservatives.Ramping up the rhetoric of Theresa May, who last week accused the commission of leaking an unflattering account of talks at Downing Street to disrupt the election, th
  
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• Bad Brexit deal would be disaster for NHS, says Jeremy Hunt

  07-05-2017 13:06
  
  Health secretary accuses some of 27 EU member states ‘lined up against us’ of wanting Britain to fail in negotiationsA bad deal on Brexit would be “a disaster” for the NHS, Jeremy Hunt has said, as he claimed the European commission was deliberately interfering in the general election to undermine the Conservatives.Ramping up the rhetoric of Theresa May, who last week accused the commission of leaking an unflattering account of talks at Downing Street to disrupt the elect
  
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• Radio DJs are suppliers of banal chatter, not health advice on partying | David Mitchell

  07-05-2017 11:00
  
  ‘Nice one, Chris, but do remember two beers are four of your recommended 14 weekly units right there…’Sometimes it’s the little things that get to you. Viruses, obviously. Bacteria. Tiny, tiny flakes of asbestos. Or, to be less literal, the inconsequential things. An inconsequential thing that got to me last week was a report of some Northumbria University research saying that Radio 2 DJs’ repeated references to alcohol were making their listeners hit the bottle.Th
  
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• Liver disease test: Is the cure in your POO?

  07-05-2017 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LIVER disease affects two million people in the UK, but now an unusual test could spot it before it’s got too advanced.
  
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• Ice baths and snow meditation can cold therapy make you stronger?

  07-05-2017 09:00
  
  When Scott Carney set out to debunk the health benefits of extreme cold, a strange thing happened. He tells Tim Adams about lighting his ‘inner fire’Before Scott Carney set about climbing a Polish mountain in his underwear in temperatures 10 degrees below zero, he believed his days of adventure were just about over. He was in his mid-30s. An anthropologist by training and a journalist by vocation he had written two books about the dangerous extremes to which humans go to find salvati
  
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• Skin gun sprays stem cells on to burns victims' wounds

  07-05-2017 06:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  US doctors are using a new technique that allows patients to regrow a new layer of healthy skin in as little as four days using theSkinGun - which has treated more than 60 burns victims so far.
  
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• Lyme disease sufferer gets husband to sting her with bees

  07-05-2017 04:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  We all know that bee stings are incredibly painful and best avoided. But Ingrid Watt of Scotland subjects herself to 30 every week in a bizarre bid to beat the life-threatening Lyme disease.
  
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• Jennifer Aniston's no-scapel facelift has a risk of ageing

  07-05-2017 03:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Non-invasive 'facelift' procedure Ultherapy has won celebrity plaudits including Jennifer Aniston, but some doctors have raised concerns that it speeds up the ageing process.
  
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• The Observer view on curbing air pollution | Observer editorial

  07-05-2017 01:14
  
  The government has been dilatory in the extreme in dealing with one of the most pernicious health hazards afflicting this countryPollution has long blighted the air that we breathe. Complaints about fumes generated by coal-burning in London were recorded as early at the 13th century. The heavy smogs that descended on the capital in the 1950s killed thousands. Governments have long attempted to regulate the pollution of our cities: in 1273, authorities introduced a prohibition on burning coal in
  
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• Theresa May pledges mental health revolution will reduce detentions

  07-05-2017 01:04
  
  Prime minister says new legislation is needed to end discrimination resulting from current Mental Health ActTheresa May will pledge to scrap the “flawed” Mental Health Act, warning that it has allowed the unnecessary detention of thousands of people and failed to deal with discrimination against ethnic minority patients.In an attempt to meet her pledge to prioritise mental illness during her premiership, she will commit to ripping up the 30-year-old legislation and replace it with ne
  
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• Nigeria battles to beat polio and Boko Haram

  07-05-2017 01:03
  
  Northern Nigeria is the frontline in two wars: the disease and the brutal rebels who reject the west’s influenceThe man sporting a giant purple bottom adorned with a swinging horse tail is chanting to the beat of the drummers, his blue-painted face sweating copiously. Children delightedly race around the colourful clown. All except Ismail, 13, who watches from the ground, twisting his head to follow the dance. A man with a megaphone is yelling something, but it can’t be heard in the
  
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• Ménière’s disease sufferer: Getting my life back

  07-05-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MÈNIÈRE'S disease is an invisible illness with devastating symptoms. Here one sufferer describes how a positive attitude has helped.
  
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• Crippling pain: Top doctor questions claims statins cause no side-effects

  07-05-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE FORMER deputy chairman of the British Medical Association has questioned claims that there are no side-effects from statins, saying they left him with muscle pains so severe he needed MRI scans.
  
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• Aaron Lennon’s breakdown must make us act to help minorities beat mental health problems

  07-05-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE ECCLES Old Road is an unlikely spot for a pivotal moment in social awareness.
  
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• Beating child food allergies could be a piece of cake!

  07-05-2017 00:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When science journalist Robin Nixon Pompa learned her daughter Clara might have egg and nut allergies, she tried a method with Dr Gideon Lack of giving her a little bit of egg everyday.
  
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• Blood cancer sufferers given lifeline after pill approved

  07-05-2017 00:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Imnovid – a derivative of Thalidomide - has been shown to help the body’s own immune system cells find and fight the deadly blood cancer multiple myeloma, boosting survival by five months.
  
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