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• Crowdfunding drive for doctor struck off over six-year-old boy's death

  28-01-2018 21:36
  Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence in 2015A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to pay legal costs for a junior doctor who was struck off the medical register following a conviction for manslaughter. More than £160,000 has been raised in support of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence in 2015 over the death of six-year-old Jack Adcock.Continue reading...
  
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• High blood pressure - FIVE easy ways to naturally lower your BP

  28-01-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  HIGH blood pressure symptoms are difficult to spot, but the condition increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes. You can lower your blood pressure naturally with the easy steps.
  
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• Mental Health Act reform proposals | Letters

  28-01-2018 19:04
  Christina Blacklaws of the Law Society, Nick Gould and Ian Baguley on legal safeguards for sectioned mental health patients in England and WalesIn his letter (26 January), Professor Tom Burns challenges the information we gave the Guardian (Lawyers seek end to forced treatment of psychiatric inpatients, 24 January). We’re grateful to him for his points and want to clarify that only patients detained by order of the magistrates or crown courts under the Mental Health Act will have to wait s
  
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• Schools in eleven states have closed this flu season

  28-01-2018 18:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The flu is causing widespread school closures in the US. Some schools are getting cleaned while closed so that when they reopen children will be less likely to contract the illness.
  
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• Lisa Snowden reveals she has fought depression

  28-01-2018 18:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Today Lisa seems entirely stress-free and enthusiastic. But the attitude hasn’t come easy as the former model (pictured) reveals she has battled with depression for years.
  
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• Model Charli Howard: ‘They told me I was fat’

  28-01-2018 11:00
  Charli Howard knew all about the ugly side of modelling. Then one day she decided she’d had enough. The body-positive activist reveals why she had to stand up to the fashion industryIt started with a pair of leather trousers. Charli Howard was 23, and had just returned from a shoot in Stockholm when she got a call from her agent. It was 2015; she’d been modelling for six years, and starving herself for 10. “We’ve had a chat,” the booker said, carefully, “and w
  
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• In Shock by Rana Awdish review – doctor turns patient

  28-01-2018 11:00
  After coming close to death in her own hospital, a doctor perhaps protests too much at the language used by her lifesaversIn two thousand and something (we’re never given an idea of dates in the book, meaning we’re always slightly disoriented in time, as if we’re drifting in and out of a coma in intensive care), Dr Rana Awdish was admitted to the Detroit hospital she worked in and came pretty much as close as is possible to death. A mass in her liver ruptured during pregnancy,
  
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• The search for the perfect painkiller

  28-01-2018 10:29
  Millions of Americans are hooked on painkillers – thousands die as a result. Scientists are striving to design a new, safer generation of opioidsOnly the word “epidemic” really does justice to the scale of human tragedy caused by opioid drug use in America.How else can we describe 145 largely avoidable deaths a day? Opioids – mostly prescribed as painkillers or obtained illicitly by those hooked through previous treatment – killed 53,000 people in the United States
  
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• Wendy Mitchell on her extraordinary Alzheimer’s memoir

  28-01-2018 09:00
  Diagnosed at 58, Mitchell was determined not to be beaten: ‘Why feel ashamed of having a complex brain disease?’The word can seem like a sentence, and the sentence can bring a sense of helplessness, dread, despair. Dementia – the D-word – is the illness we fear the most. Many people, at the diagnosis, jump-cut forward to their anticipated end, where memories have slid away in catastrophic chunks, where language jumbles up and is lost, where chaos and loss squat in the rui
  
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• Deadly Victorian diseases make a return from obscurity, but why now?

  28-01-2018 08:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  RICKETS, TB and scurvy sound like the stuff of history books but official figures show such Dickensian diseases have recently been making a comeback.
  
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• Gym workout: Can drinking a strong coffee an hour before improve your performance?

  28-01-2018 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  GYM WORKOUTS could be improved with a strong cup of coffee an hour before, according to a new study. But does it matter if its caffeinated or decaffeinated and why exactly does it have this effect?
  
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• Blockchain: so much bigger than bitcoin…

  28-01-2018 08:00
  From voting to healthcare, music to energy production, blockchain may just change the way we run our livesA blockchain allows the authentication of transactions without them needing to be administered or guaranteed by a central authority. Ballot boxes and current online voting platforms are vulnerable to manipulation; now a startup called Follow My Vote is developing a blockchain-based system to ensure security, transparency and mathematically accurate election results. Continue reading...
  
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• I refuse to let cancer deprive my sons of their mother

  28-01-2018 07:00
  Having been orphaned herself, Genevieve Fox’s desire to look after herself when she became ill was matched only by her urge to look after her own childrenAs my husband and I approach the UCH Macmillan Centre for the results of the biopsy for a lump in my neck, I wonder if I’ll have a single malt at the pub afterwards, or a warming whisky mac. Richard, usually a decorous drinker, has suggested the stiff drink before we head home for the Secret Santa party we’re hosting later on.
  
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• Gordon Ramsay lost four stone to keep his wife

  28-01-2018 03:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fitness fan Tana told him he was getting fat and Ramsay felt he had to shape up or risk losing her. ‘It was painful. I used to look at myself in the mirror and think, “Holy s***!” So it was a big wake-up call.”
  
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• The thyroid is among our most crucial glands, but how much do you know about it?

  28-01-2018 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  WHILE it doesn’t tend to get top billing when it comes to organs that are critical to our health, the butterfly-shaped thyroid gland positioned at the front of the neck plays a very important role in our lives.
  
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• Want a cure for the common cold? Try some chicken soup

  28-01-2018 00:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Like most GPs I have been inundated by patients suffering from varying degrees of all of these things.
  
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• Ease your bedtime cramps with water and regular stretches 

  28-01-2018 00:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  We should be physically active on a daily basis, in order to stimulate the blood supply to all of the muscles in the body.
  
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• The skin cancer 'cure' that also shrinks kidney tumours

  28-01-2018 00:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology 2017 shows that a combination of two drugs can achieve startling results, making tumours vanish in ten per cent of patients.
  
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