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• Joe Jonas Just Got Engaged To This "Game Of Thrones" Actress

  15-10-2017 22:59
  They announced the news with the sweetest post
  
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• Broadening the debate on mental health | Letters

  15-10-2017 19:52
  David Dodd wants employers to assume a degree of responsibility for employees’ mental wellbeing, Justin Harper makes a case for income protection and Gary Fereday says psychoanalytically informed therapies should be more widely available. Plus letters from Keir Harding and Rob DaviesJeremy Hunt has once more propelled mental health up the political agenda with the promise that an extra £1.3bn would be invested annually in mental health services by 2021 (Report, 10 October). However,
  
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• STI warning as clinics close in London and self-testing is delayed

  15-10-2017 19:14
  Six long-established sexual health clinics have shut as part of a move from face-to-face consultations to online servicesPeople are being denied care at overburdened sexual health clinics after a wave of closures and huge delays to a controversial new self-testing scheme for diseases such as herpes and syphilis, health experts are warning.Six long-established sexual health clinics around London have shut in recent months as part of a planned switch from face-to-face consultations to online servi
  
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• Gay rights activists welcome NHS quizzing of patients over sexuality

  15-10-2017 14:07
  People visiting their GP or hospital may be asked to confirm whether they are straight, gay, bisexual or otherGay rights campaigners have backed an NHS policy demanding that doctors and nurses start asking all patients from the age of 16 about their sexual orientation.NHS England has issued a new standard requiring staff to “record sexual orientation at every face to face contact with the patient, where no record of this data already exists”. Related: Gender dysphoria patients deserv
  
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• Gay rights activists welcome NHS questioning of patients over sexuality

  15-10-2017 14:07
  People visiting their GP or hospital may be asked to confirm whether they are straight, gay, bisexual or otherGay rights campaigners have backed an NHS policy demanding that doctors and nurses start asking all patients from the age of 16 about their sexual orientation.NHS England has issued a new standard requiring staff to “record sexual orientation at every face to face contact with the patient, where no record of this data already exists”. Related: Gender dysphoria patients deserv
  
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• NHS patients to be asked about sexuality

  15-10-2017 12:35 via bbc.co.uk
  NHS England says the question will deter discrimination against lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
  
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• Children’s tsar savages NHS over 'unacceptable' mental health care

  15-10-2017 11:38
  Anne Longfield accuses NHS England chief of ignoring young people’s experiencesThe children’s commissioner has launched a savage attack on the head of the NHS, accusing him of denigrating research that shows an “unacceptable” lack of children’s mental health provision.In a highly unusual move, Anne Longfield has published an open letter to Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, accusing him of ignoring young people’s experiences of the service and the
  
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• Patients in England to be quizzed over their sexuality

  15-10-2017 10:08
  From 2019, people visiting their GP or hospital may be asked to confirm whether they are straight, gay, bisexual or otherFamily doctors, nurses and other medical staff in England will be able to quiz patients on their sexual orientation under government plans. People over the age of 16 visiting their local GP or hospital may be asked to confirm whether they are straight, gay, bisexual or other from 2019.Related: Gender dysphoria patients deserve better treatment than I can give them | Zara AzizC
  
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• Can an app really provide effective birth control?

  15-10-2017 10:00
  Technology that tracks women’s fertility has been hailed as being more effective than the pill – and without side-effects. Is this a genuine revolution in sexual freedom?When Apple launched their health tracking app in 2014 and didn’t include any features that allowed women to monitor their reproductive health the company was widely ridiculed. As critics pointed out women have been tracking their periods for hundreds of years – in many ways they were at the forefront of t
  
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• Brain game: the freaky factor of artificial intelligence | Daniel Glaser

  15-10-2017 07:00
  The more human-like robots are, the more disturbing we find them. Here’s why…The release of Blade Runner 2049 has once again inspired us to imagine what it would be like if the distinction between artificial life and humans all but disappeared. Once something else is almost as ‘real’ as us, the idea of what it means to be human is challenged.Neuroscientists know already that such a scenario is disturbing to us – thanks to a phenomenon known as Uncanny Valley. In th
  
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• Why I won't let doctors give my son the flu vaccine 

  15-10-2017 02:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In Britain, most primary schoolchildren are offered the flu vaccination – it’s a nasal spray rather than a jab these days – for free, which we are told protects them from catching the virus.
  
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• Disabled children hate crime reports increasing

  15-10-2017 02:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Families with disabled children describe being abused online and in the street.
  
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• How VR is helping to train a new generation of surgeons

  15-10-2017 02:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Virtual reality technology that lets trainee surgeons feel "flesh and bone" is developed.
  
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• Conjoined twins survive gruelling journey to separation

  15-10-2017 02:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The one-week-old baby girls had to go on a 15-hour journey on the back of a motorbike.
  
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• MPs urge action on lengthy wait for autism diagnosis

  15-10-2017 01:04
  Cross-party group asks Jeremy Hunt to impose uniform standards to ease the burden on parentsParents of children with suspected autism are having to wait at least 44 months for diagnoses, prompting a cross-party group of more than 140 MPs to write to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, demanding urgent action.The startling new figures, revealed in response to a freedom of information request, relate to children under the age of five who need a specialist autism assessment after being referred by a
  
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• Weeping is 'like giving yourself a hug'

  15-10-2017 00:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The researchers from Siena University Hospital in Italy reviewed several other historical theories about the origins and purpose of weeping.
  
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• Device to spare women from 'stigma of incontinence'

  15-10-2017 00:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stress incontinence is caused by a weakening of the pelvic-floor muscles which control the flow of urine and may affect millions of women in the UK.
  
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