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• Dame Tessa Jowell has brain cancer, family says

  17-09-2017 21:32 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour peer and former MP was diagnosed in May, her daughter-in-law announces.
  
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• Tessa Jowell in battle against brain cancer, family reveals

  17-09-2017 21:27
  Former culture secretary was diagnosed four months ago and has pledged to help people with cancer live longer and betterDame Tessa Jowell has been battling brain cancer for the past four months, her family has revealed.The former Labour culture secretary’s illness was revealed in an Instagram post by Ella Mills, the food blogger and cookbook author Deliciously Ella. She posted a picture of Jowell on her 70th birthday and described the past few months as “some of the hardest of our li
  
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• What Gisele Bundchen Worries About In Her Relationship--But Tom Brady Doesn't

  17-09-2017 20:32
  He is aware of it, but doesn't worry about it.
  
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• Anti-ageing diet: THESE three deadly conditions could be prevented with coffee

  17-09-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  COFFEE is more popular than ever in the UK, and drinking it frequently could help prevent diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer's disease.
  
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• Maurice Little obituary

  17-09-2017 19:20
  My father, Maurice Little, who has died aged 75, was a dedicated and skilled paediatrician, a committed volunteer for a number of charities and a loving father and husband.He was born near Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, during the second world war, to Emily (nee Ross) and John Little, who were dairy farmers. After attending Portora Royal school in Enniskillen Maurice read medicine at Queen’s University, Belfast, graduating in 1965 and then leaving Northern Ireland to work in Liverpool at t
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing star quits heavenly pork pies

  17-09-2017 17:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 55-year-old former pop star (pictured), who had hits with 1980s group The Communards, says: ‘I had a medical before the show and that was an experience of bitter disappointment.’
  
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• 'Angelina Jolie op is given to women it cannot help'

  17-09-2017 17:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Fiona MacNeill, a surgeon at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital, said medics were ‘driving the removal’ of the second – healthy – breast sometimes just to give patients ‘peace of mind’.
  
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• Breast cancer has stalked my family for generations

  17-09-2017 16:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When I was four, my mother’s mother, my grandmother, died of breast cancer just as her mother, my great-grandmother, had done years earlier, writes Dr Ellie Cannon.
  
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• How to describe what it's like to be in a hurricane | Daniel Glaser

  17-09-2017 10:30
  Descriptions of the recent hurricane winds have focussed on the hearing sense but it’s fear that’s most commonly triggeredRecent reports of the terrifying weather events in the Caribbean and US have exposed us to instances of humans trying to describe a hurricane wind (many would argue that getting mainstream US media to cover the causes rather than the effects of extreme weather would be a great advantage).The Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale describes the effects on structures and pe
  
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• Victoria Derbyshire: ‘After cancer, I’m squeezing life out of every second’

  17-09-2017 09:00
  Renowned for her tenacious journalism, the BBC broadcaster dealt with her cancer treatment by documenting every moment. Here she talks about the power of positivity and why she got a dogOn Monday 27 July 2015, at 4.35am, Victoria Derbyshire was in her kitchen, with the kettle on, Googling “inverted nipple” before leaving home to present her daily BBC2 current affairs programme. Google came up with a list of explanations, one of which was breast cancer. It is usually best to ignore on
  
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• Two wheels good: a beginner's guide to commuting by bike

  17-09-2017 08:00
  Keen to avoid overcrowded buses and tubes and arrive to work brimming with endorphins? Here are some tips to cycling to work, safely and stylishlyHave you ever noticed how cheerful your cycling colleagues are when they arrive at work in the morning? That’s because their commute is quicker and cheaper, they are full of endorphins from the exercise, and they have avoided being crammed on to hot, overcrowded public transport.
  The good news is it’s actually very easy to follow their lead
  
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• The 'miracle pill': how cycling could save the NHS

  17-09-2017 08:00
  Cycling can make people healthy and live longer, and cut public health costs, so why can’t it be prescribed to the nation?Imagine if a team of scientists devised a drug which massively reduced people’s chances of developing cancer or heart disease, cutting their overall likelihood of dying early by 40%. This would be front page news worldwide, a Nobel prize as good as in the post.That drug is already here, albeit administered in a slightly different way: it’s called cycling to
  
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• High blood pressure - hypertension could be linked to THIS deficiency

  17-09-2017 06:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  HIGH blood pressure is a common condition believed to affect around one in four adults in the UK. While diet and lifestyle choices can influence high blood pressure, experts have warned it could be altered by a certain deficiency.
  
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• A yes vote is vital for the mental health of LGBT Australians. That's a fact | Kamran Ahmed

  17-09-2017 02:20
  The evidence of the mental health ill-effects of discrimination against LGBTI people should banish outdated policies to the past
  With the authorisation of an unnecessary postal vote on marriage equality, the public debate has predictably turned into a circus. So it should perhaps come as no surprise that the intellectual equivalent of custard pies are being thrown. False claims by the no campaign that marriage equality would somehow constitute an attack on freedom of speech and set in motion a c
  
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• Two-thirds support higher taxes to maintain NHS funding

  17-09-2017 01:05
  Amid growing concern about state of the health service, poll shows a willingness to contribute moreTwo in three people are prepared to pay more tax in order to ensure the cash-strapped NHS has the money it needs to provide good care.New polling for the King’s Fund thinktank found that two-thirds (66%) of the public are willing “to pay more taxes in order to maintain the level of spending needed” on the health service.Poll showed that 62% believe the NHS should be fund
  
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• ‘I was the first baby delivered by the NHS. It has saved my life eight times’

  17-09-2017 01:05
  Aneira Thomas was named by her mother after the architect of the health serviceIt was coming up to midnight on Sunday 4 July 1948 and my mother, who had been in labour for 18 hours, was just about ready to give birth to me. She wanted to start pushing. But the doctors and midwives looked up at the clock on the wall and said, “Stop. Hold on, Edna, hold on.” They knew they were moments away from the start of the National Health Service and wanted me to be the first baby born into this
  
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• Woman suffering from chronic arthritis: My mystery ‘growing pains’ left me unable to walk

  17-09-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  REBECCA Beesley, 38, from Kent, has suffered with the agony of chronic arthritis since she was nine years old.
  
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• Flu Jab: Is it useless for older people?

  17-09-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE ANNUAL flu jab can offer little or no protection against the virus in elderly people, research suggests.
  
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• Botox injections can lift your jawline

  17-09-2017 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Injections of the anti-wrinkle drug Botox can transform the appearance of people with receding chins, according to a new study by plastic surgeons.
  
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• Therapy could offer new hope for MS patients

  17-09-2017 00:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Multiple sclerosis suffererRoy Palmer and his wife Helen (pictured) are desperate for him to be able to walk again. Now doctors believe a stem cell therapy could halt the disease from worsening.
  
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• 40 minute laser blast that ends years of leg ulcer pain

  17-09-2017 00:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The procedure (pictured), which involves a fine laser fibre being threaded into to vein to deliver heat energy, is similar to the one commonly used to treat unsightly varicose veins.
  
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