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• Statins have power to help elderly fight off killer superbug

  08-10-2017 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  STATINS can protect older people against the killer superbug MRSA.
  
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• Breast cancer: 'Why I had a double mastectomy'

  08-10-2017 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Three women who decided to go through with the surgery explain why they felt it was necessary.
  
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• As a GP I feel increasingly burnt out, but the buck always stops with me | Dr Lucy Carter

  08-10-2017 20:34
  Patients are the reason I stay in general practice – but when you dread getting up and never see your family, this way of working is unsustainableIt’s 6.15am on a Sunday and I am up early and in front of the computer again. I spent yesterday filing 150 letters when my son wanted to play football and the older one wanted go climbing.I can’t remember the last time I had a lie-in. It’s not because the kids or the cats wake up early for breakfast, it’s because I am work
  
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• Life isn’t all rosy in the inner cities, sadly | Letters

  08-10-2017 19:56
  Slum clearance | Mortality rates in Newcastle | The common cold | Personal hygieneAlthough I would not want to justify the government’s housing record, it should be remembered that between the 1950s and 1980s local authorities were demolishing thousands of slums each year, so the net increase in housing stock was nowhere near as great as implied by the graph that accompanied your article (Housing £2bn promise ‘just chicken feed’, 5 October).Steve Shearsmith
  Cottingham, Ea
  
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• GPs losing sleep over patient safety fears, says head of profession

  08-10-2017 19:44
  Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, says colleagues are left anxious by overwork and exhaustion“Shattered” GPs are lying awake at night worrying they may have harmed their patients by making mistakes caused by tiredness and overwork, the leader of the profession has revealed. Family doctors are losing sleep because they are so anxious that they have put patients’ safety at risk by missing a symptom or not keeping their medication up t
  
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• Lady Gaga Just Posted a Heart-Wrenching Photo With Her Boyfriend, Christian Carino

  08-10-2017 19:03
  Her "very special someone" supported her through a really tough day.
  
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• That sweating, trembling feeling: 10 strategies to cope with your shyness | Sian Prior

  08-10-2017 19:00
  Social anxiety can manifest itself mentally and physically. Here are ways you can learn to manage itAccording to British singer-songwriter Morrissey, “shyness is nice”. When it leaves you feeling breathless, voiceless and even friendless, though, it can be anything but nice. Shyness often manifests as social anxiety, and as Morrissey sings in his song Ask Me, it can stop you from doing the things you want to do in your life. Related: We used to think shyness was refined. That was bef
  
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• NHS plastic surgeon warns against cheap foreign boob jobs

  08-10-2017 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NHS surgeon Professor Ash Mosahebi of the Royal Free Hospital in London said more than one in ten breast patients end up losing a nipple if they undergo cosmetic surgery abroad.
  
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• Cash-strapped council leader attacks NHS spending

  08-10-2017 16:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Welsh health services cannot overspend while councils face more cuts, says one local authority leader.
  
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• 25,000 operations cancelled last year due to NHS crisis

  08-10-2017 16:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  25,000 operations are cancelled every year because hospitals are so full. A lack of beds is forcing the cancellation of 100 operations every working day across the NHS in England.
  
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• Our writer tries Gwyneth Paltrow's Gloop-inspired diet

  08-10-2017 15:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Inspired by THAT cover shoot, our writer, POPPY CROSS, finds out what it takes to be a Goop-inspired wellness warrior... and if the effort is really worth it.
  
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• Gene test 'narrows down breast cancer risk'

  08-10-2017 14:36 via bbc.co.uk
  It could reduce the number of mastectomies among high-risk women, researchers say.
  
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• Breakthrough for the blind as new lens improves sight

  08-10-2017 12:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A LENS implanted into the eye dramatically improves sight in nine out of 10 people with the most common form of age-related blindness.
  
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• HEALTH NOTES: MARTIN CLUNES on his 5:2 weight-loss plan

  08-10-2017 11:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When Martin Clunes, the star of TV’s Doc Martin, dramatically lost weight five years ago, it was assumed he was suffering from an illness. He has since admitted using fashionable 5:2 diet.
  
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• Why some people can’t cope with the sight of blood | Daniel Glaser

  08-10-2017 07:00
  In evolutionary terms it could be useful to faint if there’s blood aroundAt Science Gallery London, we were immersed in blood as we worked on our current exhibition. We also brushed up on our first aid as we expected some visitors to exhibit a particular response to the material we presented. But why do people faint at the sight of blood?The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has historically treated blood, injection or injury phobia as a specific sub category
  
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• Act now to tame the superbugs that are killing 700,000 a year

  08-10-2017 07:00
  Misuse of antibiotics poses a fast-rising threat to humanity while scarcity of the same drugs sees millions die in developing worldThe UN general assembly recognised drug-resistant infections last year as one of the greatest threats facing humanity. And in May, G20 leaders called for national action plans by the end of 2018 – plans set in train by the World Health Organisation in 2015. But we have already lost momentum. Commitments are the first step, but nothing will be achieved if we don
  
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• ‘Antibiotic apocalypse’: doctors sound alarm over drug resistance

  08-10-2017 06:59
  The terrifying prospect that even routine operations will be impossible to perform has been raised by experts alarmed by the rise of drug-resistant genesScientists attending a recent meeting of the American Society for Microbiology reported they had uncovered a highly disturbing trend. They revealed that bacteria containing a gene known as mcr-1 – which confers resistance to the antibiotic colistin – had spread round the world at an alarming rate since its original discovery 18 month
  
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• MATT ROBERTS: Help me find a trainer for my bad back

  08-10-2017 02:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A man in his 50s asks MATT ROBERTS about the best personal trainer to help his fitness despite suffering from lower back problems as well as osteoarthritis in his knees and neck.
  
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• Assaults on mental health staff up 25% in four years

  08-10-2017 01:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Workers describe a "powder keg" as a result of staffing shortages and service cuts.
  
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• Women’s rights are on the retreat yet again. Why? | Barbara Ellen

  08-10-2017 01:05
  Donald Trump’s ruling making it easier for companies to opt out of providing free birth control highlights the need for vigilanceWhen modern women are finally fitted with their regulation compulsory chastity belts, dare one dream that they’ll come in a range of pretty colours, delightful materials and snazzy designs? Or would it just be the old-school medieval iron trad models? Hey, little ladies, do you think we’d be allowed to choose?I muse facetiously because, in the US, Pre
  
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• Rise in violent attacks by patients on NHS mental health staff

  08-10-2017 01:00
  Surveys find budget cuts leaving workforce struggling to copeTwo out of five NHS mental health workers have been abused or attacked by a patient over the past year as services have become overstretched because of staff shortages, a new report has revealed.Staff have been kicked, punched and headbutted, while some had a patient try to strangle them, according to a survey of more than 1,000 people working in mental healthcare. Continue reading...
  
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