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• CES 2018: Black Box VR wants to make gamers fit

  07-01-2018 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  A start-up at the CES tech show believes virtual reality could revolutionise how we use gyms.
  
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• With the NHS, reality has finally caught up with Theresa May | Zoe Williams

  07-01-2018 19:52
  The prime minister’s evasions and blandness used to work. But the winter crisis has left her floundering, and with no plan to end the miseryIt was like watching an anxiety dream: you’ve been made prime minister, but you don’t know why. Andrew Marr is interviewing you on the BBC, but you haven’t been briefed on anything. Your syntax is wild and a snarl keeps creeping into your smile, like an unexpected wolf in the forest you’ve forgotten to plant. Related: What May t
  
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• Teenagers turn to wrestling to help with mental health

  07-01-2018 14:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Gym staff say wrestling has helped teenagers with a range of conditions to better manage their symptoms.
  
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• NHS trusts beg doctors and nurses to have flu jabs

  07-01-2018 14:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NHS trusts are failing to get doctors and nurses to have flu jabs despite fears of a flu epidemic spreading to Britain from France.
  
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• How to cool down our New Year brains | Daniel Glaser

  07-01-2018 10:30
  Therapeutic hypothermia could offer guidance as we recover from the festive period, says Daniel GlaserFeeling a little bruised after the excesses of New Year and the festive period? In these cold, dark days we may find a treatment for more serious neurotrauma instructive. Since the 1940s, many studies have shown the benefits of therapeutic hypothermia, or cooling the brain.In terms of energy supply, the brain exists in a precarious balance even in normal function. Fuel reserves are limited as br
  
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• Johann Hari: ‘I was afraid to dismantle the story about depression and anxiety’

  07-01-2018 10:00
  In 2011, the writer and author was the subject of accusations of plagiarism that led to the end of his career as a newspaper columnist. His new book, Lost Connections, explores the problems with our understanding of mental health• Read an extract from Johann Hari’s Lost ConnectionsJohann Hari is a writer and author of several books, and a former columnist for the Independent. His latest book, Lost Connections, explores the causes and cures of depression and anxiety. It
  
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• Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?

  07-01-2018 10:00
  Johann Hari took antidepressants for 14 years until a shocking realisation – the drugs don’t work. In this extract from his new book, he calls for a new approach• Johann Hari Q&A: ‘I was afraid to dismantle the story about depression and anxiety’In the 1970s, a truth was accidentally discovered about depression – one that was quickly swept aside, because its implications were too inconvenient, and too explosive. American psychiatrists had produced a book th
  
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• Doctors call for painkiller crackdown over addiction fears

  07-01-2018 09:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than a million Britons have been prescribed pregabalin and gabapentin to treat chronic pain and anxiety.
  
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• How to get the best out of exercise

  07-01-2018 09:00
  Conflicting theories on how to maximise exercise would stretch anyone to the limit. As New Year fitness plans begin in earnest, here’s a scientific response to some frequently asked questionsYou might think it wise to fuel up before a long run or cycle, but the latest research suggests you might be better off ignoring your gut instinct.Stretching can undermine performance, particularly in sports requiring bursts of power and sudden changes in direction. Related: How running saved me from b
  
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• How human brains are interconnected through 'wi-fi'

  07-01-2018 03:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Digby Tatum of the University of Sheffield has been researching the human brain and how people communicate and believes he has found the secret behind 'gut feelings'.
  
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• DR XAND VAN TULLEKEN on diets that are worth the agony

  07-01-2018 02:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Millions on Britons embark on a diet ever new year in an attempt to slim up, but the majority do not work. DR XAND VAN TULLEKEN has sifted through them and come up with the best.
  
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• Drinking and darts: Does alcohol improve performance?

  07-01-2018 02:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Some former darts champions drank heavily but did it improve their performance on the oche?
  
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• Mass closure of NHS walk-in centres is fuelling winter crisis, claim campaigners

  07-01-2018 01:55
  Easy access to medical help for many denied after 40% of services shutDozens of NHS walk-in centres have shut since 2010, depriving patients of easy access to medical help for minor ailments without having to wait days for an appointment, and adding to the pressure on A&E units.A total of 95 walk-in centres – 40% of the overall original number – have closed since the Conservatives came to power, or are due to shut soon, says the campaigning organisation 38 Degrees.A combination o
  
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• Trump is now dangerous – that makes his mental health a matter of public interest | Bandy Lee

  07-01-2018 01:05
  This world authority in psychiatry, consulted by US politicians, argues that the president’s mental fitness deserves scrutinyEight months ago, a group of us put our concerns into a book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. It became an instant bestseller, depleting bookstores within days. We thus discovered that our endeavours resonated with the public.While we keep within the letter of the Goldwater rule – which prohibit
  
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• The Observer view on NHS funding | editorial

  07-01-2018 01:05
  The NHS is still one of the best healthcare systems in the world. Mrs May’s apologies to patients are not enough – she must allocate them more moneyFive years ago, Britain’s best-loved institutions were at the centre of Danny Boyle’s Olympic opening ceremony. The NHS took pride of place alongside James Bond, the Queen and EastEnders: as the rest of the world watched with bemusement, the stadium in Stratford was transformed into a 1950s-style hospital in a celebration
  
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• The living dead Conservative party - cartoon

  07-01-2018 01:05
  Chris Riddell on train fares, the NHS crisis, clearing the homeless and Toby Young Continue reading...
  
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• Inside our hospital, we’re making compromises at every turn | Anonymous

  07-01-2018 01:05
  Hard-pressed staff are doing their best during the latest NHS crisis, writes a London hospital consultantA&E waiting areas full, wards and beds full, corridors full; people are queuing, ambulances queuing. We can all see and feel it.It’s unhelpful to hear remarks about the NHS being broken when we are all working so hard to ensure that it doesn’t pack up, but it leaves me and my colleagues questioning why we are in this situation. Chronic underfunding? Poor planning? Is there wor
  
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• The big issue: healthcare is too important to be left to the politicians

  07-01-2018 01:01
  Restructuring of the NHS is essential, but the task needs to be taken out of the political arena and placed with a royal commission of expertsEvery year millions of pounds are poured into the NHS. Every year there is a winter health crisis and every year the health service is kicked around as a political football by every political party.Before the NHS was established, healthcare for the majority in the UK was at best patchy and at worst unaffordable and nonexistent, with women, children and the
  
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