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• MATT ROBERTS: I want to get fit but gyms stress me out

  15-07-2017 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For everyone, at least at first, going to a gym is daunting, says British instructor MATT ROBERTS.
  
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• Breast cancer patients to lie on stomachs for radiotherapy

  15-07-2017 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The technique, known as prone radiation and common practice in the US, is helpful for women with larger breasts who are harder to treat in the traditional position lying on their back.
  
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• Reebok Just Released An Ad Trolling Trump—What Do You Think?

  15-07-2017 23:25
  
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• HEALTH NOTES: Katie Piper to host Everyday Heroes

  15-07-2017 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Courageous acid-attack survivor Katie Piper, right, will host the St John Ambulance Everyday Heroes awards, which honour the nation’s lifesavers at the Hilton London Bankside.
  
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• Sick patients dying ‘unnecessarily’ in NHS because of poor care

  15-07-2017 23:00
  
  Inquiry finds series of major flaws, including lack of equipment, leading to ‘shocking’ death rate among those who needed emergency oxygen treatmentSome of the sickest patients that hospitals treat are dying unnecessarily because they receive poor care, blighted by shortages of staff and equipment, a new NHS inquiry has revealed.A death rate of one in three among inpatients who need emergency help with breathing is already high by international standards, and is getting worse. Contin
  
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• Grenfell Tower survivors ‘must have total immigration amnesty’

  15-07-2017 22:00
  
  Concerns persist that undocumented residents fear accessing healthcare and other services because of their UK statusThe government will face calls this week to grant a complete amnesty and a permanent right to remain in the UK to undocumented residents of Grenfell Tower.Volunteers working with survivors say concerns about their migration status are still preventing some from coming forward to seek help.These are people who have experienced the most traumatic thing in their lives – they sho
  
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• Wilfred Frost: 'I'll never get over sudden death of my brother'

  15-07-2017 17:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wilfred Frost, son of Sir David, on the hidden disease which killed his brother at the age of 31.
  
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• Dr Max asks if saving lives is worth the suffering

  15-07-2017 13:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The case of Charlie Gard has raised many big, complex ethical questions.Of course, I understand his parents’ desperation to do whatever they can to save Charlie, but I do wonder at what cost?
  
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• Now statins could help beat ovarian cancer too

  15-07-2017 12:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Keele University claim that a commonly used statin could also be effective against cancer cells – if a person’s diet is also controlled.
  
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• The man who may have secretly fathered 200 children

  15-07-2017 07:00
  
  When Esther-Louise Heij’s son asked if she could trace his genetic father, she began a battle to find out whether she was deceived by her late doctor, Jan Karbaat, who is suspected of fathering up to 200 of his patients’ childrenTwenty five years ago, when she was 35, Esther-Louise Heij made two decisions that would shape the rest of her life. The first decision went entirely to plan: it gave her the children she longed for. But the second decision would play out in a bizarre twist s
  
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• Dementia and alcohol link: Drinking too much can cause THIS serious syndrome

  15-07-2017 05:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DRINKING too much alcohol can increase the risk of developing types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia.
  
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• Surgeons can stop spread of germs by operating NAKED

  15-07-2017 02:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A University of Washington study found surgeons in the nude shed 'significantly less bacteria than those wearing scrubs', but admitted it was not likely to ever happen.
  
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• Ten women's deaths a year are linked to taking the Pill

  15-07-2017 01:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Abbey Parkes, pictured, 20, of Staffordshire, died of blood clots on her lungs partly caused by the Pill, with experts suggesting it may have contributed to 550 female deaths since 1963.
  
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• Woman who fears daughter faces FGM gets deportation reprieve

  15-07-2017 00:53
  
  Theresa May intervenes after SNP MP highlights case of Lola Ilesanmi who feared three-year-old daughter would face female genital mutilation in NigeriaTheresa May has intervened to halt the deportation of a woman who claimed that her three-year-old daughter would face female genital mutilation if they returned to Nigeria.The decision to refuse Lola Ilesanmi’s application to remain in the UK has been withdrawn and the prime minister has ordered Brandon Lewis, the immigration minister, to pe
  
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• Fewer US hospitals can care for children

  15-07-2017 00:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The number of children transferred from one hospital to another increased by more than 36 percent in Massachusetts from 2004 to 2014, Harvard Medical School has found.
  
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• Boy with just half a heart completes his first triathlon

  15-07-2017 00:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jack Foley, who lives in Long Island, New York, was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
  
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