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• All Star Wars Fans Need This Workout Gear In Their Lives

  10-09-2017 23:57
  May the force be with you.
  
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• Scary News About Sea Salt

  10-09-2017 23:36
  Not good.
  
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• Britain flouting duty to protect citizens from toxic air pollution – UN

  10-09-2017 23:00
  Exclusive: Special rapporteur’s mission finds government has violated obligation to protect people’s lives and health The UK government is “flouting” its duty to protect the lives and health of its citizens from illegal and dangerous levels of air pollution, according to the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights related to toxic waste.
  Baskut Tuncak issued his warning after a fact-finding mission to the UK in January at the invitation of the government in a report
  
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• GP probed for giving child, 12, gender-change hormones

  10-09-2017 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Monmouthshire GP Dr Helen Webberley's practice is restricted while medical authorities investigate.
  
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• Britain needs more accessible housing | Letters

  10-09-2017 19:24
  A group of NGO leaders says that government and developers must ensure new homes are designed to meet the needs of disabled peopleDemand for accessible homes is growing, yet just 7% of the nation’s housing provides even basic accessibility features. This worrying accessible housing deficit is likely to reach a crisis point as the number of people with disability increases and more of us are living longer. Together we are calling for more action from government, local authorities and develo
  
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• Patti Boulaye suffered severe dehydration

  10-09-2017 11:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Singer Patti Boulaye rushed to a performance after filming the television show and soon found she was suffering from cramps before she collapsed and was hospitalised.
  
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• The brain game: what and where we remember | Daniel Glaser

  10-09-2017 10:30
  Even if you’ve been on the beach for two months how to do your job will come back as soon as you walk into the officeAs we return to school and work from blissful relaxation, one of our anxieties is how we’ll get the information we once knew back into our heads. An elegant experiment from the 1970s might give us some reassurance, particularly if we’ve just been on the beach.Alan Baddeley worked with divers to see what the effect of context was on recall. The divers were given t
  
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• Gabrielle Deydier: what it’s like to be fat in France

  10-09-2017 10:00
  Gabrielle Deydier’s book about being obese has ignited her native France. She tells Stefanie Marsh how her life has been a battle against ‘grossophobia’, discrimination and verbal abuse – until nowIn August 2015, 37-year-old Gabrielle Deydier went for a job interview which she passed with flying colours. The job was for a position as a teaching assistant at a Parisian special needs school and the interview panel, including the school’s headmaster, had been so impres
  
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• It's best to leave contraception to those who need it | Eva Wiseman

  10-09-2017 07:00
  A poorly judged apology and a grudging reduction in the cost of the morning-after pill means Boots ‘provoked more complaints’ than it bargained forI am reeling, reeling, at this week’s extreme version of the soulless apology, where the other person, their chin held up awfully proudly, says: “I’m so sorry,” but then, “…if you were upset.” A crapology, if you will. That poisonous “if”. It stays bitter, fizzes on your tongue like la
  
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• Carrie DeKlyen, Who Refused Cancer Treatment To Deliver Sixth Child, Dies At 37

  10-09-2017 03:14
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• How your body could be 20 years 'older' than you think

  10-09-2017 02:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In How To Stay Young, presenters Dr Chris Van Tulleken and Angela Rippon explore concerns that poor diets, inactivity and obesity mean that many Britons are ageing ‘too fast’.
  
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• 'Medical opinions ignored' by NHS payment assessor, workers say

  10-09-2017 02:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Health workers tell the BBC the assessments left some patients being denied NHS care.
  
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• The pursuit of pleasure is a modern-day addiction

  10-09-2017 01:05
  The easy availability of temptations, combined with constant stress, is taking its toll on a whole generationHere’s a story that is not about Trump or Brexit. But this could be worse, with even direr consequences. Addiction is up. Depression is up. Death is up. In America, we have seen a decline in our life expectancy for the first time since 1993. But this is not just happening in the US – death rates are up in the UK, Germany and China.At the same time, suicide rates in teenagers h
  
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• Confessions from the City: why firms are failing to tackle the cocaine crisis

  10-09-2017 01:04
  Workers in London’s financial district share their experiences of a rampant drugs cultureThe week before Christmas, and a party at one sales firm in the City of London turned out to be “somewhat eventful”. Two members of staff were ejected – in full view of their colleagues and the directors – after being caught snorting lines of cocaine in a toilet cubicle.Looking back, a senior employee recalls his surprise days later when the same directors made it known that not
  
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• Queen’s former doctor wants check-ups for statin patients

  10-09-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  PATIENTS prescribed statins should be given a GP check-up weeks later to see whether they are suffering side effects, the Queen’s former doctor says.
  
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• Kate's morning sickness: 'I know what she's going through', says brave mother

  10-09-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  UP to 1,000 women terminate their pregnancies every year because they are suffering the severe form of morning sickness afflicting the Duchess of Cambridge, a conference will hear next month.
  
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