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• Penis Enhancement Surgery Results In Death For The First Time Ever

  30-07-2017 18:13
  Doctors say the surgery is rarely necessary.
  
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• This Post About Motherhood Is Going Viral For All The Right Reasons

  30-07-2017 17:48
  "Can we all climb down off judgmental mountain for a second?"
  
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• Our daughter lived five days. We thank the doctors and nurses who made it possible | Ed Tolputt

  30-07-2017 16:31
  Ed Tolputt and his wife have nothing but praise for the health workers who were crucial in their baby’s brief lifeThere has been a lot in the news recently to remind us of our daughter, Martha, who was born two years ago in a critical condition. The news only served to remind my wife and me of how profoundly grateful we were, and are, for the love and care that the doctors and nurses of the NHS showed our baby girl – and we would like to say thank you.Martha was born on 22 May 2015 a
  
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• RideLondon weekend sees more than 100,000 cycle capital's streets

  30-07-2017 16:17
  After 2016’s heavy delays and safety issues, this year’s event runs more smoothly, with about 24,000 cycling full 100-mile routeThe huge annual RideLondon cycling event, which was beset by long delays last year after a series of crashes, has run notably more smoothly on Sunday after organisers brought in a series of new safety measures.The 2016 event saw thousands of riders forced to stop for up to two hours almost halfway around the 100-mile version of the route after an entrant cra
  
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• RideLondon weekend attracts 100,000 cyclists to capital's streets

  30-07-2017 16:17
  After 2016’s heavy delays and safety issues, this year’s event runs more smoothly, with about 24,000 cycling full 100-mile routeThe huge annual RideLondon cycling event, which was beset by long delays last year after a series of crashes, has run notably more smoothly on Sunday after organisers brought in a series of new safety measures.The 2016 event saw thousands of riders forced to stop for up to two hours almost halfway around the 100-mile version of the route after an entrant cra
  
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• Could 3D printing solve the organ transplant shortage?

  30-07-2017 09:30
  Scientists are racing to make replacement human organs with 3D printers. But while the technology’s possibilities are exciting, already there are fears we could be ‘playing God’Erik Gatenholm first saw a 3D bioprinter in early 2015. His father, Paul, a professor in chemistry and biopolymer technology at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, had bought one for his department. It cost somewhere in the region of $200,000. “My father was like, ‘This thing can
  
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• Immune system warning: These five conditions are because of inflammation

  30-07-2017 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  IMMUNE systems are designed to protect us, but sometimes the inflammation they trigger to fight off foreign substances goes wrong - and we’re left with asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and a number of other conditions.
  
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• Persistent heartburn could be a warning sign of THESE three cancers

  30-07-2017 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  HEARTBURN can cause an unpleasant taste in the mouth, a sore throat and a chronic cough - but also pain in the chest. It can also be a warning sign of three different types of cancer.
  
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• Cycling: why it’s as easy as riding a bike

  30-07-2017 07:00
  Learn how to cycle as a child and you’ll never forget how, as Daniel Glaser explainsSummer is often the time we decide to get back on our bike – perhaps for the first time in a while. For most people there simply isn’t room in daily life - either we live too far from work, the roads are busy or it’s raining - but cycling on holiday is appealing, even if it is something we do only once a year.So how is it that a skill learnt in childhood can so easily resurface? The answer
  
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• A baby in your thirties can help you live LONGER - study

  30-07-2017 02:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The University of Coimbra in Portugal study shows older mums live longer but fertility experts warn that women should start trying for a child before their 30s amid fears of a 'fertility time bomb’ in the UK.
  
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• Breastfeeding row

  30-07-2017 01:42 via bbc.co.uk
  How a photo of the president's daughter led to a breastfeeding debate in Kyrgyzstan.
  
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• Mixed-sex wards endanger and humiliate women | Catherine Bennett

  30-07-2017 01:05
  Even as gender-neutral spaces grow, hospitals show that in some areas men and women are best kept apartCourtesy of some artful timing, the latest of Theresa May’s difficulties – on mixed-sex hospital wards – caused less of a stir than her choice of the Alps, also disclosed as Westminster shut down, for her and Philip’s next walking holiday. Confirmation of a 50% rise, in May’s one year in office, in the number of patients treated in same-sex wards, a subject of cons
  
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• Big tobacco ‘manipulating cigarette prices’ to thwart taxes on smoking

  30-07-2017 01:05
  Premium brands subsidise the cheaper products to keep the habit affordable, study findsBig tobacco companies have been manipulating the prices of cigarettes for more than a decade to undermine government attempts to deter people from smoking, research suggests.A study published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research has found that the increasing availability of cheap tobacco has hampered public health efforts to discourage smoking, the leading cause of preventable death. Continue reading
  
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• A thank you to the doctors and nurses who cared for our daughter | Ed Tolputt

  30-07-2017 01:05
  Ed Tolputt and his wife have nothing but praise for health workers, crucial in their baby’s brief lifeThere has been a lot in the news recently to remind us of our daughter, Martha, who was born two years ago in a critical condition. The news only served to remind my wife and me of how profoundly grateful we were, and are, for the love and care that the doctors and nurses of the NHS showed our baby girl – and we would like to say thank you.Martha was born on 22 May 2015 at the John R
  
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• ‘I sleep at peace at night because I know I fought for my daughter to the very last’

  30-07-2017 01:04
  As the inquest into the tragic death of Sarah Reed ends, her mother Marilyn explains why this fragile young woman should never have been in jailOn 11 January 2016 Sarah Lynne Reed, 32, was found dead in her cell in London’s Holloway prison. A jury was told at her inquest – which opened earlier this month – that she died by “self strangulation”, the tragic conclusion of more than a decade of sporadic bouts of mental ill health.Sarah’s final days were harrowing.
  
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• Woman battling jelly belly: I had 10 organs removed

  30-07-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  DIAGNOSIS of her “tummy bug” was a life-changing shock for Louise Holmes.
  
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• Place2Be: The leading charity sets to raise public awareness of mental health

  30-07-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  AS THE younger royals speak openly about their emotional struggles, our writer puts the spotlight on a leading mental health charity.
  
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• Mother says antidepressant drugs turned her son into a 'psychotic killer'

  30-07-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A MOTHER whose son went on a knife rampage killing his former girlfriend’s partner before stabbing himself to death, has said she is convinced that antidepressant drugs drove him to murder.
  
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