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• Senior Tories in budget backlash over NHS and social care cash

  25-11-2017 15:34
  Two former health secretaries and chair of select committee call for end to short-term thinking as crisis growsPhilip Hammond is facing a backlash from senior Tories after failing to provide any extra funds for social care in the budget and announcing only a “short-term fix” for the NHS.With health bosses set to discuss the rationing of services at a crunch meeting this week, two former Tory health secretaries and the Conservative chair of the Commons health committee said that it wa
  
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• Woman awarded £9m damages for care of son who 'should not have been born'

  25-11-2017 14:34
  The high court ruled in favour of Omodele Meadows, who would have terminated her pregnancy if she had known her child would have haemophiliaA mother has been awarded £9m high court damages to raise the son who would not have been born if she had known of his haemophilia.Shortly after Omodele Meadows gave birth to Adejuwon in September 2011, she discovered he had the rare condition that affects the blood’s ability to clot.Continue reading...
  
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• Millions of men suffer in silence after sexual abuse. How can we help them better? | David Lisak

  25-11-2017 14:00
  Research indicates that one in six men experienced sexual abuse at some point during their childhood. Post-Weinstein, it’s time to cast off shame and secrecyIn the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations, more and more men in Hollywood are coming forward with their own stories of sexual harassment and sexual abuse within the entertainment industry. As they bravely share their experiences, a long taboo issue is being brought to the surface. To the tens of millions of men still suffering in
  
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• Avatars can help schizophrenia patients confront torment

  25-11-2017 13:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kings College London researchers and schizophrenia patients used computers to fine-tune the voices of these avatars, so the patients could come face-to-face with their tormentors.
  
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• Psychiatrist Max Pemberton may make you rethink your life

  25-11-2017 12:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors are brow-beaten and cowed by red tape, trained by a system that values tick-boxing over initiative, writes Dr Max Pemberton, the NHS psychiatrist who may make you rethink your life.
  
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• It wasn’t feminist theory that cured my anorexia – it was having something to eat for

  25-11-2017 10:00
  I was extremely lucky to have found a wonderful doctor who understood me and who I couldn’t outsmartA rather sweet news story emerged the other week, in which it was claimed that studying feminist theory could help anorexics with their recovery by teaching them how “cultural constructions of femininity” can lead to “body distress”. Now, I am of the opinion that feminism is the answer to pretty much everything, so the idea of bell hooks and Kate Millett swooping in t
  
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• Sex warning: These THREE health problems could be triggered by a dry spell

  25-11-2017 08:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  SEX is known to be great for your health, and a dry spell could raise your risk of high blood pressure, colds and cancer.
  
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• Bed bug breeding ground: ‘Life-saving’ mattress could stop you getting DEADLY infections

  25-11-2017 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  DEADLY infections and painful boils could be caught from your mattress, but a new type of bed could save your life, it’s been claimed.
  
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• Aspirin link to cerebral palsy in babies

  25-11-2017 03:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Newborns were almost two-and-a-half times more likely to have the incurable condition if their mothers took aspirin and 50 per cent more likely if they took paracetamol, a
  
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• Should you freeze your eggs like Rita Ora?

  25-11-2017 01:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British singer Rita Ora, 26, has revealed she froze her eggs when she was 22, so she has her eggs at their best and can decide what to do with them later. Here, we explain why more women are doing it.
  
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• British birth rate at RECORD LOW & women opt out raising a family - ONS

  25-11-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITISH women are having the fewest children on record, official figures show.
  
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