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• Up to a million Britons use steroids for looks not sport

  21-01-2018 20:04
  Health warnings as image culture drives usage of performance-enhancing drugsUp to 1 million people in the UK are taking anabolic steroids and other image- and performance-enhancing drugs (IPEDs) to change the way they look, public health experts and doctors have said. This ranges from teenagers seeking the perfect physique to elderly men hoping to hang on to youthful looks.Anabolic steroids are class C substances under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. There is no possession offence but it is illega
  
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• ‘I think I’ll be on a dose for ever’: steroid users on the quest for perfection

  21-01-2018 20:04
  The archetype of an IPED user is changing. We speak to the new breed seeking the body beautifulJohn eased his bulky frame into a chair at the Lower Dock Street clinic in Newport, south Wales and reeled off a dizzying list of substances he injects or swallows as he seeks the perfect, honed physique.“I take all sorts,” he said. “Testosterone, trenbolone, Equipoise, Dianabol, Halotestin, hCG, Arimidex, Nolvadex, clenbuterol. It’s not cheap – I spend more than £20
  
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• Mystery illness that has left girl, three, unable to move

  21-01-2018 18:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Aubree Reid-Moore, three, from Leicester, has had severe disabilities since birth but doctors are still unable to understand exactly what is wrong with her. The tot's tests keep coming back as normal.
  
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• Whatever happened to the Jade Goody effect?

  21-01-2018 16:00
  After the reality star died of cervical cancer in 2009, nearly 500,000 extra women turned up for smear tests. Now, the number of screenings has reached a 20-year low. Why?When the letter arrives informing me that I am due a smear test, as it does every three years for women aged 25 to 49, I do what many women do: I recycle it. There will be a reminder. Or I hide it under a pile of papers to find in a couple of months’ time.I know I am not alone in this, because the latest figures from NHS
  
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• Can a DIY fertility test help you plan when to have a baby?

  21-01-2018 09:30
  A new wave of tech startups is promising women detailed insights into their ability to conceive. But experts are scepticalMy sisters, aged 27 and 30, are seated at their computers poring over the slick websites of companies promising to reveal secrets to them about their fertility. “Get insight into how your fertility is tracking relative to your age,” promises one. “Get the tools you need to have more control over your fertility,” says a second. “Gauge how long you
  
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• Anti-ageing jab for your gums - but is it worth the risk?

  21-01-2018 09:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bizarre-sounding treatment, costing from £300, targets the common problem of unsightly ‘black triangles’ – gaps between the base of the teeth caused by age-related receding gums.
  
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• How to fight the flu and why face masks aren't so crazy

  21-01-2018 04:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Health chiefs have ordered Britons with the flu to ‘stay at home’ as new figures confirmed the worst outbreak in years. I answer the questions asked by rightly concerned patients in my clinic…
  
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• No cycling

  21-01-2018 01:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Why is there such a big gender gap when it comes to cycling?
  
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• Get in shape with just 30 minutes exercise a week

  21-01-2018 01:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  I have put together a six-week programme based on the latest science which aims to help you beat the fitness slump.It's unbelievably quick, which means there’s no excuse not to do it.
  
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• The NHS is suffering because it has become a political football | Letters

  21-01-2018 01:05
  Everything in Britain is seen through the prism of tribal ideologyWhile I would not wish to disagree with the thrust of your major article on the National Health Service (“Voices from the frontline”, Review), we are not going to make serious inroads if we don’t ask the right questions. I would suggest the question is not: “How do we better manage health?”, but :“How do we better manage Britain?”We all know that our society needs more doctors, hospital be
  
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• I watched my son die from cancer. Here are the lessons I have learned

  21-01-2018 01:05
  Sacha Langton-Gilks has written a book to help other grieving parentsAt 6.10am on Tuesday 14 August 2012 my eldest child drew his last breath. I have to look up the time and date because my brain refuses to acknowledge this information, it’s automatically sent to the spam file as dangerous. I find my brain’s attempts at self-protection rather touching in the wholesale carnage that is grief.The death certificate states who, where, when and why – number nine on the list, cause of
  
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