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• I was paralyzed by a common anti-wrinkle injection. The warning signs were there within 24 hours but I didn't know…

  05-05-2025 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A mom was left 'partly paralyzed' after being 'poisoned' by Botox-like injections - and says chasing beauty 'ruined' her life.
  
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• How avoid toxic rows with your family this Christmas... revealed by top psychologists

  16-12-2025 11:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Relate - the relationship support service - 68 per cent of people who responded to its survey expected to argue over the Christmas holidays.
  
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• Drinking tea could lower risk of agonising yet common bone problem that affects three million - while coffee may increase the risk, study shows

  16-12-2025 08:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Flinders University in Adelaide analysed 10 years of data comparing women's tea and coffee habits with detailed scans of bone strength at the hip - a key predictor of fracture risk.
  
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• Man died from sepsis after 34-hour medication delay

  16-12-2025 07:03 via bbc.com
  The man could have survived had he been given the correct antibiotics, a report finds.
  
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• ‘Improve the NHS fast or people will fall for the charlatans’ – so says a departing trust head. We’d do well to listen | Polly Toynbee

  16-12-2025 07:00
  In his 46 years of service, Nick Hulme has seen the best and the worst of the NHS. He issues a stark warning about its futureI catch him before he slips out of the NHS ahead of Christmas. After 46 years in the health service, no better time for an exit interview with a leading NHS trust chief executive, who has seen the best and worst of it. Nick Hulme is in brutal truth mode. He has one foot out of the door of his East Suffolk and North Essex NHS foundation trust, just as the resident doctors s
  
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• What’s worse for us, sugar or sweeteners? – podcast

  16-12-2025 06:00
  We all know eating too much sugar is bad for our health – but would we be better off replacing it with artificial sweetener? It’s a question Science Weekly listener Marion posed recently and, as Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample, the answer is complicated. She explains what the science says about sugar v sweeteners with the help of Prof Havovi Chichger, from Anglia Ruskin University, and Prof Jim Krieger, from the University of Washington’s school of public healthSupport the Gu
  
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• New antibiotics hailed as ‘turning point’ in treating drug-resistant gonorrhoea

  16-12-2025 06:00
  First new treatments for sexually transmitted disease in decades approved by US Food and Drug Administration as number of cases worldwide surge to 82mThe first new treatments for gonorrhoea in decades could be a “huge turning point” in efforts to combat the rise of superbug strains of the bacteria, researchers have said.Gonorrhoea is on the rise around the world, with more than 82m infections globally each year and particularly high rates in Africa and countries in the World Health O
  
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• FDA issues urgent recall for cakes sold in dozens of Kroger stores due to deadly ingredient

  16-12-2025 05:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The FDA has announced an urgent recall for several types of cakes because they contain a life-threatening allergen that is not declared on the product's packaging.
  
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• Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment, BBC finds

  16-12-2025 02:25 via bbc.com
  Huge amounts appear to have been raised for seriously ill children who never received the money.
  
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• From the best antidepressants for older patients to the ones with the worst side-effects, psychiatrist DR MAX PEMBERTON's ultimate guide to navigating which one works for you

  16-12-2025 02:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When it comes to treating depression, one size definitely does not fit all, and they're not the answer for everyone.
  
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• Fury as junior doctors ignore calls to scrap five-day strike starting tomorrow as outbreak ravages the NHS

  16-12-2025 01:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A five-day walkout will start at 7am, despite the UK struggling with one of the worst flu seasons in NHS history. The hardest hit hospitals are declaring 'critical incidents'.
  
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• Dentists in England to be paid more for emergency NHS appointments

  16-12-2025 01:01
  British Dental Association says government’s plan has ‘no new money behind it’ and further changes neededDentists in England will be paid more to ensure patients have easier access to emergency appointments under government plans, but experts have expressed doubt that it will improve care.The changes, which will be introduced from April next year, will include dentists being incentivised to provide emergency and complex treatments through the introduction of a standardised paym
  
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• Scientists pinpoint six personality changes in middle age that may be a hidden sign of dementia

  16-12-2025 00:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British researchers said the findings, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, could give doctors a potential tool to spot those at risk of dementia years before symptoms appear.
  
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• I was always 'too skinny.' Then the weight crept on and suddenly I was obese. Now I've lost 70lbs and reversed my diabetes WITHOUT Ozempic... here's the simple tool everyone needs to know

  15-12-2025 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For much of her adult life, Tanya Harrick was called 'too skinny.' But after a knee injury sidelined her Air Force career and she gave birth to her daughter, the pounds started to pile on.
  
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• Cutting butter and cheese may be pointless for millions - won't help you live longer, major study suggests

  15-12-2025 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A review of 17 major trials found little to no benefit from cutting saturated fat for people at low or moderate heart risk over five years.
  
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• Newsom appoints ex-CDC officials to lead California’s new public health network

  15-12-2025 22:40
  Dr Susan Monarez to head PHNIX, a response to Trump administration’s dismantling of public health safeguards Gavin Newsom, the California governor, announced the appointment of two prominent scientists who left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in recent months over conflicts with the Trump administration to state positions.Dr Susan Monarez, the former director of the CDC, will lead California’s new public health initiative, the Public Health Network Innovation Exc
  
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• Heart surgeon reveals four foods that are 'actively poisoning' you... including 'healthy' choice that is as bad as alcohol

  15-12-2025 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Jeremy London, a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon in Georgia, shared the top foods he avoids to lower his risk of cardiovascular disease, America's number one killer.
  
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• Ozempic and Wegovy can protect against neurological disease that causes brain damage

  15-12-2025 20:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have discovered that semaglutide, the active ingredient in drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, offers a new benefit for the 38 million Americans with diabetes.
  
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• The Guardian view on birth influencers: the public need protecting from bad advice | Editorial

  15-12-2025 20:24
  Our investigation of the Free Birth Society points to problems with maternity care and the role played by technologyDespite all the proven advances of modern medicine, some people are drawn to alternative or “natural” cures and practices. Many of these do no harm. As the cancer specialist Prof Chris Pyke noted last year, people undergoing cancer treatment will often try meditation or vitamins as well. When such a change is in addition to, and not instead of, evidence-based treatment,
  
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• Five day resident doctors' walkout to go ahead from Wednesday as medics reject last ditch offer

  15-12-2025 19:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The British Medical Association said members voted 83 per cent to 17 per cent to proceed with industrial action, which health leaders have warned will cause havoc.
  
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• Doctors vote to go ahead with this week's five-day strike in England

  15-12-2025 18:54 via bbc.com
  It comes after ministers made fresh offer amid warning the walkout is risky as NHS battles wave of flu.
  
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• Another new virus variant is emerging and causing surge of 'rib-cracking' winter illness

  15-12-2025 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A surge in cases of the ultra-contagious stomach bug norovirus is being fueled by a new strain of the disease, experts have suggested.
  
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• 'We don't blame dad for killing mum, he was ill'

  15-12-2025 18:35 via bbc.com
  Chris Stone-Houghton had been experiencing paranoia when he killed his wife Ruth, an inquest heard.
  
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• Why did doctors reject Wes Streeting’s offer? It still fails to treat us with respect | Jack Fletcher

  15-12-2025 18:13
  We can still call off this week’s strike – if the health secretary meaningfully addresses job shortages, real-terms pay cuts and the ongoing exodusDr Jack Fletcher is chair of the British Medical Association’s UK resident doctors committeeResident doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly to go ahead with this week’s planned strike, because the government’s latest offer fails to address the medical jobs crisis and does nothing to stem the exodus of medics from th
  
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• The little-known vitamin deficiencies that are making you feel so tired or out of breath. No, it's not ageing or stress, says DR EMILY LEEMING - and these are the cheap, easy tweaks that'll solve it

  15-12-2025 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fatigue, brain fog, some vague tingling in your hands and feet - many might assume these to be a sign of ageing. But these can be red flags that you're short of key vitamins and minerals.
  
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• Patients 'may die' in Christmas NHS meltdown as militant junior doctors humiliate Streeting by pushing ahead with strikes - despite recent pay hikes

  15-12-2025 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of medics - previously known as junior doctors - will walk out in the run-up to Christmas from December 17 to December 22.
  
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• Healthy schoolboy, 14, told his headaches were normal for a YEAR before being diagnosed with terminal cancer: 'He wasn't even offered a scan'

  15-12-2025 15:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A father from Corby in Northamptonshire claims doctors told his son his headaches were normal when it turned out to be terminal cancer.
  
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• Man, 24, reveals drastic jaw surgery transformation after a decade of being taunted about his jutting chin: 'Even friends don't recognise me'

  15-12-2025 15:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Luke McLuckie, 24, from New Islington in Manchester, began developing an underbite at just 13, causing his lower jaw to jut centimetres in front of his upper teeth.
  
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• Militant junior doctors WILL still strike despite desperate Government offer as 'superflu' continues to batter hospitals

  15-12-2025 15:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of medics - previously known as junior doctors - will walk out in the run-up to Christmas from December 17 to December 22.
  
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• Militant doctors WILL still strike despite desperate Government offer as 'superflu' continues to batter hospitals

  15-12-2025 14:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of medics - previously known as junior doctors - will walk out in the run-up to Christmasfrom December 17 to December 22.
  
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