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• Cancer in the cabinet: DailyMail.com graphic reveals the makeup and personal care products high in dangerous chemicals... including FLOSS and tampons

  16-05-2024 04:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There is a wide array of cosmetic and personal hygiene products (pictured) Americans use that could be teeming with cancer-causing 'forever chemicals' or PFAS ingredients.
  
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• Terrified mom watches in horror as toy battery burns hole in toddler's throat

  31-10-2024 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One-year-old Keith Karre was playing with a toy phone in his living room in January beside his three-year-old brother Nicky when he suddenly popped the battery out of the phone and into his mouth.
  
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• I'm the only doctor in America who performs abortions after eight months - now I'm doing more than ever

  31-10-2024 22:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Warren Hern has been providing late stage abortions for decades. He has revealed why he offers the operations in interviews with news publications.
  
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• Officials warn THOUSANDS have been affected by new scam at the dentist

  31-10-2024 21:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of people have been duped by sly dentists looking to make a quick $65,000 by administering unnecessary dental implants.
  
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• Housing, social care and universities: who lost out in the UK budget?

  31-10-2024 19:39
  Rachel Reeves made funding the NHS a priority but people working in other areas said they were disappointedRachel Reeves’s first budget emphasised raising taxes to help the NHS, as the health service tries to cope with huge waiting lists and an ageing population. Funding the NHS was a top priority but people in other sectors – from universities to social care – feel the budget was a missed opportunity to tackle impending crises or introduce desperately needed reforms in their a
  
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• Doctor: Joe Biden shows same signs of dementia as Bruce Willis before his diagnosis

  31-10-2024 19:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Emma Heming Willis shares the first signs of the dementia that her husband, Bruce Willis, had. She said the family mistook it for a different, common condition Willis had since childhood.
  
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• The Guardian view on health spending: the NHS needs more than a shot in the arm | Editorial

  31-10-2024 19:31
  
  The chancellor has given the health service a boost. But huge challenges remainIt was predictable that Wes Streeting’s department would emerge as the winner from this week’s budget, given the scale of the difficulties facing the NHS, particularly its vast waiting lists, and the strength of public feeling about this. The promised increase of £22.6bn over two years, plus £3.1bn for repairs and equipment, will bring the average annual increase in day-to-day spending in Engla
  
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• Anti-abortion activists set up outside clinic ‘safe zones’ on first day of new law in England

  31-10-2024 19:23
  
  Pro-choice campaigners welcome CPS guidance that ‘silent prayer’ is among the activities prohibited within the 150-metre buffer areaAnti-abortion activists have been taking up positions just outside new buffer zones around reproductive health clinics on the first day of a law coming into effect.The safe access zones – which were initially approved by MPs in May last year – prohibit actions including the handing-out of anti-abortion leaflets within a 150-metre radius aroun
  
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• Revealed: The food you shouldn't give kids for the first 1000 days of life to prevent major diseases, new study finds

  31-10-2024 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An astounding new study has used data from post-war families to reveal the lifelong risks of consuming some common ingredients at a very young age.
  
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• Less sugar in first 1,000 days of life protects against chronic disease, study finds

  31-10-2024 19:00
  
  Risk of diabetes and high blood pressure significantly lower in middle age in UK adults given low-sugar diets in the womb and as infantsCutting the amount of sugar children get in the womb and as toddlers can protect them against diabetes and high blood pressure in adulthood, research suggests.The finding reveals a critical period for healthy nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life as babies initially absorb nutrients from their mother and move on to formulas and infant foods. Continue reading
  
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• Ian Paterson tells inquest women ‘didn’t need to know’ about unauthorised mastectomy

  31-10-2024 18:43
  
  Jailed breast surgeon gives evidence for first time at inquest into deaths of 62 of his former patientsThe jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson has said he did not tell women if he was going to perform an unauthorised cleavage-sparing mastectomy on them because “it was frightening and they didn’t need to or want to know”.Giving evidence for the first time at an inquest into the deaths of 62 of his former patients, Paterson said he considered a cleavage-sparing mastectomy to be an
  
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• UK politics: Starmer insists pro-growth policies on way after OBR’s budget warnings – as it happened

  31-10-2024 18:34
  
  PM says budget just ‘first step’ after watchdog said measures would make no difference to growth over five yearsRachel Reeves is now being interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.She is being interviewed by Ed Balls, the former Labour shadow chancellor who is now a TV presenter. He asks her to confirm that workers will end up losing out because of the employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) increase. Continue reading...
  
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• Insidious way the pursuit of the perfect kitchen is killing American workers

  31-10-2024 18:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stone workers are coming down with irriversible lung disease called silicosis from cutting down and grinding artificial stone and then breathing in the dust. It is culminating in a wave of lawsuits.
  
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• How your Listerine mouthwash could be putting you at risk of COLON CANCER, according to lawsuit

  31-10-2024 18:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mouthwash, sold for $5 per bottle, tells customers to use it for 30 seconds twive a day to kill 99.9 percent of all the bacteria in their mouth. But scientists have raised concerns.
  
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• Autism has nearly tripled in kids and young adults in the last decade - as researchers explain why

  31-10-2024 18:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Autism diagnoses nearly tripled in kids and young adults, a study from researchers in California, Oregon, Michigan, and Washington of more than 12.2million Americans found.
  
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• Horrifying truth about what happens if you close the loo lid when you flush: Here's how to avoid getting ill - and why you should NEVER use a public lavatory

  31-10-2024 17:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It's a well-known piece of hygiene advice - close the loo seat lid before you flush, or you risk potentially infectious particles being spread around the bathroom.
  
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• Now it's a QUADRUPLEDEMIC: Experts warns UK of FOUR highly contagious winter bugs sweeping the country

  31-10-2024 17:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rates of one of the four bugs are up over 40 per cent in just a fortnight figures show, piling pressure on the health service before the season even gets into full swing.
  
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• Starmer insists pro-growth policies on way after OBR’s budget warnings – UK politics live

  31-10-2024 16:54
  PM says budget just ‘first step’ after watchdog said measures would make no difference to growth over five yearsRachel Reeves is now being interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.She is being interviewed by Ed Balls, the former Labour shadow chancellor who is now a TV presenter. He asks her to confirm that workers will end up losing out because of the employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) increase. Continue reading...
  
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• Canada judge halts medically assisted death of woman in rare injunction

  31-10-2024 16:47
  Court order blocks Vancouver physician Ellen Wiebe from euthanizing Alberta resident due to lack of physical ailmentA British Columbia judge has issued a rare, last-minute injunction barring a woman from accessing euthanasia after physicians in her home province refused to approve the request.The injunction, granted to the woman’s common law partner, blocks the Vancouver physician Ellen Wiebe, or any other medical professional, from “causing the death” of an Alberta woman withi
  
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• New study finds thinking specific thoughts could accelerate signs of aging like forgetfulness

  31-10-2024 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Pennsylvania State University, US, found older adults who have positive expectations about aging tend to report better cognitive function.
  
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• Warning! Killer mpox strain is likely 'spreading undetected' in Britain, top virus experts warn - as first UK case sparks fears of outbreak

  31-10-2024 16:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mutation, dubbed clade 1b, was only caught after the patient travelled to the UK from a holiday in Africa on October 21, before developing symptoms a day later.
  
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• Ultra-deadly mpox strain has likely been 'spreading undetected' for weeks in Britain, top virus experts warn - as first UK case sparks fears of outbreak

  31-10-2024 15:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mutation, dubbed clade 1b, was only caught after the patient travelled to the UK from a holiday in Africa on October 21, before developing symptoms a day later.
  
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• Reeves’s long-term spending figures almost as unrealistic as Tories’ were, IFS says – UK politics live

  31-10-2024 15:20
  
  Institute for Fiscal Studies says budget ‘looks like the same silly games’ as seen under the ConservativesRachel Reeves is now being interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.She is being interviewed by Ed Balls, the former Labour shadow chancellor who is now a TV presenter. He asks her to confirm that workers will end up losing out because of the employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) increase. Continue reading...
  
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• Doctors mistook busy mom's fatigue as the result of her lifestyle - in reality she had just 90 days to live

  31-10-2024 15:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kahley Schiller, 44, of Kansas, went into acute liver failure in 2019 from autoimmune hepatitis, which caused her immune system to attack her liver. She was given just 90 days to live.
  
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• Killer potatoes! Doctor warns of subtle sign your spuds could be poisonous (and it's not just the colour)

  31-10-2024 13:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Samuel Choudhury, a GP from Singapore , told his 216,000 Instagram followers to throw away your spuds if you notice two red flags that are commonly missed.
  
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• Rough sleeping in London hits record high amid predictions of worse to come

  31-10-2024 13:24
  
  Homelessness charities call for long-term plan and say 18% increase to 4,780 people ‘should incense us all’Rough sleeping in London hit another record high this summer, with an 18% increase on the summer before, as the mayor predicted the problem was likely to get worse this winter.In July, August and September 4,780 people were counted sleeping rough, the most since the quarterly counts began a decade ago. Continue reading...
  
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• Diet doctor reveals the food that children should NEVER eat for breakfast - and the cereal to choose instead

  31-10-2024 12:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Federica Amati, head nutritionist at the diet app Zoe warned that swapping cereals for other foods could be putting children at risk of diseases.
  
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• My GP told me the lumps in my neck could be parasitic worms from my two adopted street cats - but it was blood cancer

  31-10-2024 11:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Francesca Knee-Wright, 34, from Brighton, first found a 'very small' lump on her neck in April - but assumed it was just her body changing after her pregnancy.
  
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• Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah’s mother to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution

  31-10-2024 11:35
  
  UK government offers undisclosed sum in compensation to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah for daughter’s untimely deathThe mother of a nine-year-old girl who became the first person in the UK to have air pollution cited on their death certificate will receive an undisclosed settlement from the government in compensation for her daughter’s untimely death.Settling a legal case, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Transport and the Department of Health an
  
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• Scientists have discovered a surprising detail that makes a woman's bottom attractive

  31-10-2024 11:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Forget the curvy figure of an alluring hip-to-waist ratio, men and women alike are most fixated on a different part of the female derriere, at least one study suggests.
  
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