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• DR ELLIE CANNON: Don't ignore heart palpitations

  10-02-2018 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  I’m a 61-year-old man and for the last six months have been getting heart palpitations which can last for three weeks and occur three or four times a minute.
  
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• Miracle balloon is saving babies from stillbirth

  10-02-2018 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The procedure takes place at about 28 weeks into pregnancy, with the mother under local anaesthetic and the baby given a general anaesthetic administered via a tiny needle.
  
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• Almost two thirds of voters back extra 1p on income tax for the NHS

  10-02-2018 20:56
  Observer poll finds 65% support an extra penny in the pound ring-fenced for healthcareAlmost two thirds of voters back putting an extra 1p on income tax to solve the funding crisis engulfing the NHS and social care, a new poll for the Observer has found.The Opinium survey found that 65% would be happy to pay an extra penny in the pound ring-fenced for health and social care, even after being shown what the increase would actually mean for their personal tax bill. Related: NHS hospitals in Englan
  
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• C of E backs motion valuing people with Down's syndrome

  10-02-2018 20:08
  The General Synod calls for parents to be given more information about the condition, amid abortion fearsThe Church of England’s ruling body has voted unanimously in favour of valuing people with Down’s syndrome.The General Synod backed a motion calling on the government to ensure that parents who have been told their unborn child has Down’s syndrome will be given “comprehensive, unbiased information” regarding the condition. Related: C of E facing 3,300 sexual abus
  
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• NHS 'healthy homes' will tell you when to get off the sofa

  10-02-2018 17:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new NHS initiative will force families off the sofa and into better habits by using 'smart homes' which will place sensors in their houses and feed back health information to GPs.
  
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• ‘Suddenly my world would flip’: the woman who is permanently lost

  10-02-2018 12:00
  Sharon’s world is regularly reversed by a rare brain malfunction. Now neurologists, and Wonder Woman, have come to the rescueIn 1952, when she was a child, Sharon was playing in the front garden. She was blindfolded while her friends ran around her, laughing, trying not to be caught in a game of blind man’s buff. Sharon grabbed hold of someone’s sleeve and whipped off the scarf that covered her eyes. “You’re it!” she shouted.Then she blinked and looked around
  
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• Liverpool NHS scandal shows how culture of denial harms patients

  10-02-2018 10:15
  If staff do not feel able to speak out about their concerns, something is rotten at an organisation’s coreThe two most shocking revelations to emerge from the investigation into Liverpool community health NHS trust are that every part of the system failed, and it happened even as the trust was considering what it should learn from the Mid Staffordshire scandal.
  The independent review by Dr Bill Kirkup into events at the trust between 2010 and 2014 shows the root cause of the trust’s
  
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• 'I could've recovered from anorexia sooner'

  10-02-2018 07:49 via bbc.co.uk
  A woman says it was only when she had therapy as an adult that she started to recover from anorexia.
  
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• Patients with breast cancer live longer with soft chemo 

  10-02-2018 02:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Traditional chemotherapy drugs can cause such severe side effects that they are often not given to older people in the late stages of cancer.
  
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• NHS is refusing IVF to women if their husbands are obese

  10-02-2018 01:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Bath and North East Somerset clinical commissioning group (CCG) has drawn up proposals to stop funding IVF for women whose partners have a ‘body mass index’ of over 30.
  
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• Is social media causing childhood depression?

  10-02-2018 01:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Do children spend too much time online and does social media use make them anxious and unhappy?
  
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• Texas fitness trainer Jeremy Westerman killed by swine flu

  10-02-2018 00:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Westerman, 27, was killed by the swine flu last month. He is one of at least 20 deaths in the Dallas-Fort Worth area which has been hit particularly hard this deadly flu season.
  
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• 15 percent of US adults take too much ibuprofen too often

  10-02-2018 00:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study from Boston University found that as much as 15 percent of adults that take ibuprofen regularly take more than the recommended dose, risking stomach bleeding and heart attacks.
  
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• ALS sufferer's wife tells her story

  10-02-2018 00:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sharon and Dave Keeble, Brits who live in Florida, have been married for 20 years. In August 2017 Dave, 45, was diagnosed with ALS after some mild muscle weakness. Sharon describes their agony.
  
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• Texas mother survived her first bout of flu but not second

  10-02-2018 00:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Angie Barwise, 58, was killed by influenza Type B on Saturday after fighting off influenza Type A last month. She is one of 20 deaths in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that has been hit particularly hard.
  
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