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• Mum's Twin-To-Twin Transfusion Syndrome action call

  18-02-2018 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Mum recounts losing one twin in the womb while other survived
  
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• UK hits visa cap on skilled workers for third month in row

  18-02-2018 19:10
  NHS and other key employers face staffing crisis as Home Office refuses visa applicationsBritain has hit its cap on visas for skilled non-European workers for an unprecedented third month in a row, deepening the staffing crisis facing the NHS and other key employers.When the monthly quota was reached in December and January for the first time in seven years immigration lawyers had expected it would prove to be a blip, but they now fear it is turning into a long-term problem. Related: Skilled mig
  
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• 'Move your van' note left on ambulance in Tunstall

  18-02-2018 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  The writer told paramedics to move and she did not care if "the whole street had collapsed".
  
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• Home Office denies medical cannabis pleas for boy age six

  18-02-2018 17:28 via bbc.co.uk
  The family of epilepsy sufferer Alfie Dingley, six, says he has fewer seizures after taking the drug.
  
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• Ambulances stuck at A&E 'unable to respond quickly to 999 calls'

  18-02-2018 16:48
  Seriously ill patients having to wait for hours for paramedics to arrive, says NHS bossPatients who have a stroke or heart attack are at risk of harm because so many ambulances are stuck at A&E units that they cannot respond quickly enough to 999 calls, an NHS boss has said.The admission by a senior figure in the NHS ambulance service highlights the growing number of seriously ill patients who are having to wait for several hours – far beyond the target response time of eight minutes &
  
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• Positive outlook on life 'slows down ageing of the brain'

  18-02-2018 16:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Northwestern Universitywere stunned when they carried out research on 'super agers', who had dementia tangles on brain scans but seemed not to be affected by the disease.
  
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• Botched cosmetic surgery: law change urged as complaints treble

  18-02-2018 15:40
  Celebrity endorsements on social media has led more to seek bargain-price fillers and BotoxAn “alarming” rise in reports of botched cosmetic procedures in the UK has prompted doctors and campaigners to call for better legislation to protect against rogue practitioners.The number of problems related to treatments such as lip fillers and Botox has almost trebled, jumping from 378 in 2016 to 931 in the space of 12 months, according to data from Save Face, a government approved register
  
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• Jabs of belly fat fix faces after cancer

  18-02-2018 12:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People who are left disfigured after cancer surgery are having the damage to their faces repaired by injections of stomach fat.
  
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• Is anything being done about blood-eating hospital bug?

  18-02-2018 11:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A killer ‘blood-eating’ bacterial infection that may have affected thousands of British heart patients has claimed seven more lives in the past year. Carol Inkpen's husband Michael, 71, died of the infection.
  
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• Cancer, Clare and me: actor Greg Wise on the death of his sister

  18-02-2018 10:00
  A year after the death of his beloved sister, Wise talks about caring for Clare in her last days, and the blog, now a book, they wrote togetherIt is more than a year since Clare Wise, sister of the actor Greg Wise, died of cancer. She lived just down the street from the West Hampstead house her brother shares with his wife, Emma Thompson, and their daughter, Gaia. As Greg opens his front door and leads the way into his kitchen, one can see, within minutes, why he was such an indispensable carer
  
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• The pioneering contraceptive ball that could replace coils

  18-02-2018 09:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A pioneering contraceptive ball is being hailed as a safe and comfortable alternative to metal coils for thousands of British women.
  
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• Will Self: ‘I’m fitter than I’ve ever been’

  18-02-2018 07:00
  The novelist, 56, on the health benefits of eating less and walking moreWhen I was a child and my parents separated, I went on walking holidays with my dad. My rubric’s always been to walk from home – I’m not a rambler. It’s about a sense of being and place and engagement with the environment around me.I like wild swimming, particularly in the sea – I swim out, then float and look at the horizon. I think that’s extremely good for the imagination. I still cycle
  
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• Flu unites the country in an orgy of spluttering misery | Eva Wiseman

  18-02-2018 07:00
  It’s completely horrible and potentially deadly – but at least it’s got us talking to each otherIt goes spring, summer, autumn, winter, flu. This is a season of sickness, and the only season yet to be immortalised in a poem. There are no hedges and buttercups here, only the creeping mountain of toilet paper, scrunched, the smells are not those of lilacs, instead the ripe breath of someone with some terrible memory in their throat.Flu is walking among us, poking us with its pois
  
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• Nell McAndrew's battle with Lyme disease after park run

  18-02-2018 03:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It was an exercise session in a local park that almost became the mother-of-two Nell McAndrew's undoing – after a tiny tick bite led to her developing potentially life-changing Lyme disease.
  
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• Ultrathin smart bodysuit for elderly to track their vitals

  18-02-2018 01:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While previous research managed to monitortemperature and muscle strength with stick-on sensors, this new incarnation by Japanese scientists can perform a sonogram of the heart.
  
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• Scientists create first human-sheep hybrids

  18-02-2018 01:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The successful Stanford University project could even open the door to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes by creating healthy pancreases to regulate blood sugar.
  
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• 'I forgot my mum had died'

  18-02-2018 01:26 via bbc.co.uk
  After waking from a coma following a brain injury, Peter was forced to grieve all over again.
  
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• Lena Dunham’s hysterectomy choice is hers alone – whatever some people may think | Barbara Ellen

  18-02-2018 01:03
  The Girls creator deserves compassion, not condemnation, for her decision to have a hysterectomyOnly the hardest of hearts would not feel sympathy for Girls creator, Lena Dunham, right now. She’s written – extremely eloquently – in Vogue about how, after many years suffering from crippling endometriosis, she elected to have a hysterectomy.My first reaction was shock – Dunham is a young woman: did she really have to do something so final? (She writes in the article about h
  
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• Iceland law to outlaw male circumcision sparks row over religious freedom

  18-02-2018 01:03
  Jewish and Muslim leaders condemn first European country to propose banIceland is poised to become the first European country to outlaw male circumcision amid signs that the ritual common to both Judaism and Islam may be a new battleground over religious freedom.A bill currently before the Icelandic parliament proposes a penalty of up to six years in prison for anyone carrying out a circumcision other than for medical reasons. Critics say the move, which has sparked alarm among religious leaders
  
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