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• ‘It’s hardly an inconvenience’: your views on wearing a mask to combat flu

  12-12-2025 06:00
  With a record number of flu patients in hospital, Britons are weighing up the merits of face coveringsThe number of patients in hospital with flu in England has reached a record high for this time of year. The latest data puts the daily average at 1,717, with 69 in critical care.Speaking to Times Radio this week, Daniel Elkeles of NHS Providers, which represents health trusts, said anyone with flu or cold symptoms “must” wear a mask in public. Continue reading...
  
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• Now experts warn weight loss jab users about superflu! Slimmers urged to know what to do if struck down with the virus

  13-12-2025 11:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Weight loss jab users face an added hurdle when it comes to protecting themselves against the flu , a leading pharmacist has warned.
  
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• Microbiologist shares the disgusting reason you should change your socks EVERY day: 'Could trigger gut or respiratory infections'

  13-12-2025 11:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Primrose Freestone a microbiology expert at the University of Leicester has revealed why you shouldn't re-wear dirty socks
  
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• Largest study of its kind reveals surprising outcome for people who receive Covid vaccine

  13-12-2025 06:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amid a period of contention, the largest study of its kind, published by researchers in France, suggests a surprising effect for people who received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine.
  
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• As shops start to 'lock away' Lemsip to prevent panic buying, a pharmacist names the OTC remedies that will GENUINELY help relieve symptoms of the mutant flu

  13-12-2025 01:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This year's flu season has hit harder than usual, with a wave of mutant superflu sweeping the UK, even prompting some supermarkets to lock Lemsip behind security boxes.
  
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• Exactly how to lose 10lbs in time for Christmas Day: My simple steps DON'T involve Ozempic or going to the gym... and mean you eat MORE meals

  13-12-2025 00:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tracy was dreading Christmas. She was 184lbs, nearly putting her into the obese range for her petite 5ft 6in frame. But in less than a month, she managed to shed 10lbs.
  
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• Doctors' strike risks 'fatal harm' of patients as flu surge could collapse NHS

  13-12-2025 00:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Health Secretary said he was 'genuinely fearful' for the NHS if junior doctors walk out, claiming that tackling the mutant flu strain is 'probably the worst pressure the NHS has faced since Covid'.
  
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• Exactly how I lost 10lbs in WEEKS without Ozempic or going to the gym - and it means eating MORE meals: Start these steps now to lose it by Christmas Day

  12-12-2025 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tracy was dreading Christmas. She was 184lbs, nearly putting her into the obese range for her petite 5ft 6in frame. But in less than a month, she managed to shed 10lbs.
  
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• Doctors discover a new type of dementia that often gets misdiagnosed... and 6.5 million people are at risk

  12-12-2025 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors are increasingly alarmed that a type of dementia which closely resembles Alzheimer's may have resulted in the misdiagnosis of millions of older adults, leading to ineffective treatments.
  
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• FDA issues multiple urgent recalls of cookies and soups over undeclared ingredients that pose life-threatening allergy risk

  12-12-2025 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Health officials have issued multiple recalls this week of several foods that could pose a danger of deadly allergic reactions.
  
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• Measles outbreak surges as states see more cases in 2025 than in the past three decades

  12-12-2025 21:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US is continuing to battle measles outbreaks as multiple states report dozens of new cases, as well as a state reporting its first case in more than four years.
  
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• King Charles hails reduction in cancer treatment as ‘milestone’ in his recovery

  12-12-2025 21:05
  King extols early diagnosis which can give ‘invaluable time’ and backs launch of screening checker toolKing Charles has hailed a “milestone” in his “cancer journey” and revealed he is to reduce his schedule of treatment in the new year, describing the news as a “personal blessing”.His treatment will move into a precautionary phase with its regularity significantly reduced as his recovery reaches a very positive stage, it is understood. His medical
  
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• Measles outbreak widens as another state records its first case in more than four years

  12-12-2025 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Public health officials in a northeastern state, which has not reported measles since 2021, are investigating the case and conducting contact tracing to curb the spread of the highly contagious virus.
  
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• I didn't give my daughter, 4, the flu vaccine... the virus has left her brain damaged, now I'm wracked with guilt

  12-12-2025 19:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A father from Corby in Northamptonshire is urging parents to get their child vaccinated against the flu after a rare complication left his daughter, 4, in a coma.
  
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• Exposed: the business linked to baby deaths across the world – The Latest

  12-12-2025 19:01
  A year-long investigation into the Free Birth Society reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors.Lucy Hough talks to the investigative correspondent Lucy Osborne about her reporting – watch on YouTube Continue reading...
  
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• Resident doctors, a fair deal is on the table. Please do not strike at this moment of crisis for the NHS | Keir Starmer

  12-12-2025 19:00
  A super flu epidemic is sweeping the country. Let us come together to protect the institution we all loveKeir Starmer is the British prime ministerI am a Labour prime minister who believes in workers’ right to strike. But let’s be clear about the strikes planned by resident doctors next week. They should not happen. They are reckless. They place the NHS and patients who need it in grave danger.I remain hopeful they can be averted. A good deal is on the table, and the British Medical
  
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• Fear should have no place in a classroom or staffroom | Letters

  12-12-2025 19:00
  Readers respond to a report highlighting harsh disciplinary regimes at a school in east LondonIt’s little wonder that parents at Mossbourne Victoria Park academy (MVPA) are calling on the leadership of the school “to change course or be replaced” (London academy staff instilled ‘climate of fear’ among pupils, 9 December). It was a year ago that the Guardian’s John Harris outlined the details of an investigation carried out by the Observer into two Mossbou
  
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• ‘Beyond belief’ that resident doctors could strike amid flu crisis, says Starmer

  12-12-2025 19:00
  Exclusive: PM’s outspoken attack on stoppages planned for 17-22 December risks inflaming tensions with medicsKeir Starmer: Resident doctors, a fair deal is on the table. Please do not strike at this moment of crisis for the NHSKeir Starmer has said it is “frankly beyond belief” that resident doctors would strike during the NHS’s worst moment since the pandemic, in remarks that risk inflaming tensions with medics.Writing for the Guardian, the prime minister made an outspok
  
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• Almost dead? The GP will see you now | Brief letters

  12-12-2025 18:53
  Booking appointments online | Ambridge beavers | San Serriffe invasion | Nun benefits | Stages of ageingI sympathise with Simon Hattenstone (Tried using the new online GP booking system? I have – and it was almost as miserable as my chest infection, 10 December). Filled in the online form, requesting a face-to-face GP appointment, received an email offering a phone call with a pharmacist. Rang reception to explain that I needed to see a GP and she said she couldn’t make appointments
  
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• Jelly Roll claims he's found the cure for color blindness

  12-12-2025 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Music icon Jelly Roll has claimed on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience that his massive 200-pound weight loss boosted his vision and cured his decades-long colorblindness.
  
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• Martin Rowson on the flu season – cartoon

  12-12-2025 18:42
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• Worried that you're drinking too much? This 30p pill could put the brakes on your bingeing - and stop you craving sugar too. Plus, there's a surprising food that could have the same effect

  12-12-2025 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Instagram and TikTok clips proclaiming its anti-alcohol effects have been viewed millions of times.
  
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• UK politics: Trump talks ‘complete nonsense’ about crime in London, says Met police commissioner – as it happened

  12-12-2025 17:30
  Mark Rowley says capital is a safe city, and claims of no-go areas are ‘completely false’Members of the House of Lords have proposed “totally unnecessary” and “very cruel” amendments to the assisted dying bill in a bid to scupper it, Kim Leadbeater, the MP leading the campaign for the legislation, has said. Kiran Stacey has the story.I have beefed up the post at 9.08am to include the direct quote from Wes Streeting about not being able to guarantee patient saf
  
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• FDA to put most serious warning on Covid vaccines... after major study finds shots cause deadly heart damage

  12-12-2025 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The FDA is drawing up plans to add a new warning label to Covid vaccines, according to reports.
  
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• As NHS braces for record flu cases, is the strain active in continental Europe too?

  12-12-2025 17:05
  Mutations thought to be spreading flu faster and earlier, with vaccines less effective than hopedThe NHS is bracing for one of its worst winters on record as a surge in flu cases puts pressure on GP surgeries, hospitals and ambulance services. The flu season is well under way in continental Europe, too, where the same flu strain active in the UK is emerging as the force behind a new wave of infections. Continue reading...
  
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• Families washed out of tents as flood waters course through Gaza

  12-12-2025 16:26
  Gaza has been hit by heavy rains and low temperatures, deepening the misery of most of its 2.2 million population who are living in tents after two years of Israeli bombardment. Thousands of homeless people have been washed out of their makeshift shelters and forced to seek emergency refuge Continue reading...
  
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• The booze-fuelled shame of being a woman in a male-dominated industry: I did things I'll never forgive myself for. It took three marriages to see how toxic it was

  12-12-2025 16:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lauree spent two hours afterwards curled in a corner being consoled by someone she barely knew. Tears running down her face. Stomach turning with dread. Whispering 'what did I just do' on repeat.
  
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• Children bearing brunt of 'super flu' crisis as Wes Streeting warns raging outbreak could TRIPLE in size and fears grow that looming doctors' strike could collapse overwhelmed NHS

  12-12-2025 16:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The NHS is facing its most challenging winter since Covid-and the entire system could crumble under the pressure, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has warned.
  
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• Family say grandmother's death after catching Legionnaires' disease from 'smelly and off-colour' hot tub in rented holiday cottage was 'entirely preventable'

  12-12-2025 16:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paulette Crookes had been celebrating on a trip with 10 relatives in a rental property at Tapnell Farm on the Isle of Wight on February 7, 2020.
  
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• RFK Jr is a danger to public health – but local Maha laws could be a bigger threat | Katrina vanden Heuvel

  12-12-2025 16:00
  An array of under-the-radar initiatives are taking hold across the US, often tied to immunization, fluoridation and raw milkEven within the freak show that is Donald Trump’s cabinet, the health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has a singular knack for dominating the headlines with the most disturbing sort of carnivalesque spectacle.In recent months, he’s amplified harmful misinformation linking Tylenol and autism and dismissed the entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
  
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