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• ‘There’s no life here’: a journey into Britain’s precarious future

  16-12-2017 23:30
  Author James Bloodworth spent six months investigating our changing economy. In Ebbw Vale, he finds the human cost of the end of heavy industry and asks what the next upheaval will bringAt the Ebbw Vale steelworks in the south Wales valleys, thousands of men once laboured to produce the steel that helped to drive Britain’s industrial revolution. The steelworks closed for good 15 years ago, and today a familiar fare decorates the town’s mournful high street: pound shops, arcades, book
  
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• HEALTH NOTES: Amanda Holden's 'tough love' cure

  16-12-2017 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amanda Holden has weighed in on the antibiotics debate, saying she relies on natural ingredients to sort her sniffles. She said: '‘We’re a family who would always go for echinacea.'
  
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• DR ELLIE CANNON: The metalic taste driving me to despair 

  16-12-2017 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DR ELLIE CANNON advises a reader who has suffered from a metallic taste in their mouth that may be linked to their recent diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. Picture posed by models.
  
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• Slashing queues, helping new mothers: NHS explores apps for care in a digital age

  16-12-2017 21:30
  Doctors, tech experts and scientists tested new ideas at a health ‘hackathon’ – now a fund aims to back the best with cashImagine if there were an app that reduced accident and emergency waiting times, ensured women are followed up after childbirth and even identified when hospital patients need to be transferred to intensive care.These were some of the innovative ideas generated by more than 100 NHS doctors, dentists, technology developers, scientists and health economists at
  
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• Social care postcode gap widens for older people

  16-12-2017 16:41
  Council funding cuts have reduced help for the old in deprived areas, study showsOlder people in England’s most deprived areas are twice as likely to lack the help they need for basic acts, like using the toilet or taking medicine, compared with those in the richest neighbourhoods, according to figures that expose gross inequalities in access to social care.The official analysis is another sign that years of cuts have damaged the ability of councils in poor areas to meet the growing demand
  
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• Poverty in America is a moral outrage. The soul of our nation is at stake | Rev William Barber and Rev Liz Theoharis

  16-12-2017 11:00
  If we are to save the soul of this country from the poverty that is killing us, we must act, we must agitate, we must cause some righteous troubleIn March of 1968, as part of a tour of US cities to shine a light on poverty and drum up support for the recently-launched Poor People’s Campaign, the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr visited the northwest Mississippi town of Marks. He saw a teacher feeding schoolchildren a meager lunch of a slice of apple and crackers, and started crying.Related: A
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the same-sex IVF couple

  16-12-2017 10:00
  The other couples avoid eye contact. I can see their curiosity fizzing – how on earth did two women get fertility treatment on the NHS?We see the way heads turn when we walk into the waiting area, the way other people sneak glances at my more androgynous-looking partner to check if she really is a woman. They are making sure they are seeing what they think they are – two women at this mainly NHS-funded clinic.Our treatment over the past five years has taken us through several unsucce
  
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• A letter to … our child, who is deaf, for whom we have to make a big decision

  16-12-2017 07:45
  The letter you always wanted to writeForgive me, my darling girl, we are going to make a decision for you. It is a big one, and we can’t wait – it is now or never. We can’t ask you what you want. We can only hope it is the right choice.Right now, you don’t know that you are different, that we inhabit different worlds. I always knew you were special, but I expect all parents feel that way about their children. We didn’t find out you were deaf until you were one, and
  
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• Modern life is lonely. We all need someone to help | Deborah Orr

  16-12-2017 07:00
  You can feel it on the bus, in school, at the shops: the threat of isolation, hardwired into our livesHopping on the bus home on Wednesday night, I was greeted by the sight of a young woman hunched over her phone, alone in a seat, bawling for England. Or, as it turned out, Scotland. As I plonked myself down beside her and asked her what was wrong, various slumped passengers burst into animation as if a switch had been thrown, and started beseeching me to tell her that she must stay on this bus u
  
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• Patients should be offered music during surgery

  16-12-2017 05:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patients should be offered the chance to listen to music during procedures to reduce pain and anxiety, says a leading surgeon, Bhaskar Somani who said it was 'harmless'.
  
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• Top hotels let surgeons practice on dead bodies

  16-12-2017 03:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Big names in hospitality, from Disney to Hilton and Hyatt, have a little-known sideline: They rent space to physicians who train on cadavers and body parts.
  
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• DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR on depression

  16-12-2017 03:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An inquiry into suicide published a few years ago showed that fewer than 10 per cent of people who killed themselves had been referred to mental health services in the previous 12 months.
  
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• Vaginal mesh implants: The woman awarded a $57m payout

  16-12-2017 01:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Ella Ebaugh was awarded a $57m payout after a mesh implant left her disabled.
  
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• New hope for disabled man's cancer battle

  16-12-2017 01:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Ian Shaw was sent home to die, but a doctor queried that decision after seeing his story on the BBC.
  
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• The family that doesn't feel pain

  16-12-2017 01:14 via bbc.co.uk
  The experience of six related Italians may help to find a new treatment for people with chronic pain.
  
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• Pain free

  16-12-2017 01:14 via bbc.co.uk
  The experience of six related Italians may help to find a new treatment for people with chronic pain.
  
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• New brittle bone test to end hip break agony for thousands

  16-12-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A REVOLUTIONARY new screening test for brittle bone disease could prevent thousands of women suffering the agony of hip fractures each year.
  
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• Needing less nightly sleep may be genetic, study suggests

  16-12-2017 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the National Institutes for Health identified genetic combinations in fruit flies that determined whether they needed as little as three or as much as 10 hours of sleep a night.
  
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• 8 Chic and Comfy Sweatpants You'll Want to Live In

  16-12-2017 00:31
  Trendy and comfy, these sweatpants do whatever you want to do.
  
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• The 7 Most Adorable Celebrity Proposals In 2017

  16-12-2017 00:04
  Love is in the air.
  
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