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• Cardiff dad 'who thought he had a cold' contracted sepsis

  22-10-2017 20:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chris Garlick, 46, had to have both his legs and one of his hands removed after suddenly falling ill with sepsis, believing it was just a cold.
  
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• Social care funding and the cost of short-term thinking | Letters

  22-10-2017 19:38
  A royal commission recommended the extension of free care as long ago as 1999, says Robin Wendt; plus Gillian Dalley on private sector planning; David Herriott on a ‘death tax’ and Bernie Evans on short-term thinking in government generallyYou suggest (Editorial, 17 October) that “the gradual extension of free care, starting with critical care and extending to those with substantial needs as money became available” would be a key part of the reform of social care funding.
  
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• Children raised by same-sex parents do as well as their peers, study shows

  22-10-2017 19:01
  Comprehensive review in Medical Journal of Australia concludes main threat to same-sex parented children is discrimination As the marriage equality vote draws toward its close, a comprehensive study published in the Medical Journal of Australia shows children raised in same-sex-parented families do as well as children raised by heterosexual couple parents.The review of three decades of peer-reviewed research by Melbourne Children’s found children raised in same-sex-parented families did as
  
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• Healthcare professionals urged not to call children obese

  22-10-2017 18:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The parents of overweight children should not be told that they are obese, says new guidance issued to healthcare professionals.
  
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• Postnatal depression less likely after winter or spring births

  22-10-2017 15:30
  Study finds risk of postpartum depression among new mothers also affected by other factors such as length of pregnancy Women who give birth in winter or spring are less likely to suffer postnatal depression than at other times of year, a study has shown.Other factors affecting the risk of postnatal depression, also known as postpartum depression (PPD), included the length of pregnancy, whether or not an epidural was given during delivery, and body mass index. Continue reading...
  
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• Robert Mugabe removed as WHO goodwill ambassador after outcry

  22-10-2017 14:18
  World Health Organization chief says he has listened to concerns over appointment of Zimbabwean presidentThe World Health Organization says it has removed the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, as a goodwill ambassador following outrage among donors and rights groups at his appointment.The WHO’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who made the appointment at a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Uruguay on Wednesday, said in a statement that he had listene
  
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• How to lose a stone with thirty minutes of exercise

  22-10-2017 07:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A leading diet and exercise expert has come up with a plan to help people lose 14 pounds in two months – by getting active for just 30 minutes a week and in time for the Christmas party season.
  
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• Why pro-lifers who target pregnant women are missing the point

  22-10-2017 07:00
  Moves afoot to create a ‘buffer zone’ around one London clinic are a moment’s respite in a really ghastly news cycle for womenAfter a life of living in London, there are still three sights that make me stop, my mouth an open ooh. The first is the queue outside Madame Tussauds on Baker Street, which is, if you’re being pedantic, and I know you always are, three or four queues, each waiting for half a boiling hot day (there are signs pitted along the pavement advising the b
  
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• Head space: why our adolescent memories are so clear | Daniel Glaser

  22-10-2017 07:00
  The vivid recall of memories from early adulthood is to do with the state of the brain when they were first processedRecently I was asked to choose a track that changed my life, as part of an event called OneTrackMinds. Without hesitation I chose the one I first heard when I was 17, effortlessly skipping back over decades to hook into a song from my late adolescence. I had my reasons for selecting this particular piece, but a neurobiological phenomenon was at work here, too.The so-called reminis
  
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• Taxpayer-funded drugs 'too expensive for patients’

  22-10-2017 01:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Campaigners say UK taxpayers "effectively pay twice" for medicines, increasing NHS budget pressures.
  
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• Rationing care to smokers and the obese will not solve its financial crisis | Observer editorial

  22-10-2017 01:05
  Rationing care to smokers and the obese will not solve its financial crisisSince June last year, Brexit has dominated the government’s agenda, absorbed the bulk of ministers’ energy and been the focus of civil servants in Whitehall. This state of affairs will continue for at least the next few years. Yet from the welfare state, to prisons, to our schools and hospitals, there is mounting evidence that a state that first started to founder seven years ago, is now running aground. Conti
  
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• Children receive worse mental health care than adults | Letters

  22-10-2017 01:05
  No information is revealed about the effects of expensive treatmentI fully support the children’s commissioner’s request to NHS England to provide information about how local clinical commissioning groups are spending their increased budgets on community-based provision for children with mental health difficulties (“Children’s commissioner savages NHS…”, News).But there is another startling fact that she highlighted in her recent report. That is that the bulk
  
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• Technology and innovation are key to saving the NHS | Alan Milburn

  22-10-2017 01:04
  Throwing money at healthcare is not enough – we need to take advantage of advances in knowledge to better target careThe NHS is the core of our care system. It has remarkable strengths and, by international standards, is as competitive, efficient and – in outcomes per pound spent – as good as anything in the world. But, as is becoming increasingly clear, it faces formidable challenges. The population is ageing. Chronic diseases such as diabetes are becoming more prevalent and a
  
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• 'How horses helped me deal with anorexia'

  22-10-2017 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Jamie Pye, from Norfolk, says his work with horses helped him deal with the condition.
  
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