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• Keep waking up at 3am and can't fall back asleep? A GP shares his foolproof tip to nod off again... and when twilight insomnia is cause for concern

  14-12-2025 11:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Society and our daily lives largely adhere to a schedule which slots into our 24 daily hours, but our bodies have their own inbuilt clock system, called the circadian rhythm.
  
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• Health secretary apologises for doctors’ strike and says people should still attend hospital for emergencies – UK politics live

  17-12-2025 11:25
  Resident doctors in England have begun five days of strike action after rejecting the government’s latest offerStreeting says he does not want people to stay away from hospitals today if they need emergency medical help.The most important message that I want us all to convey collectively as, as parliament and the NHS, is to the public’ I do not want people who need to access health care to think [they’d] better not try.So if it’s an accident or an emergency, people should
  
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• ‘Trojan horse moment’: anti-rights groups seize chance to fill void left by US aid cuts

  17-12-2025 11:00
  Ultra-conservative Christian organisations look to reshape global health landscape as new aid agreements open door to demands restricting family planning servicesThe sudden stop work order on USAID in January 2025 sent shock waves around the world. Many health clinics were immediately shut down, leaving millions without access to vital medicines and facilities, with potentially deadly consequences, especially for HIV patients, children, and women and adolescent girls.To many, the subsequent axin
  
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• Caesareans overtake natural vaginal births in England for first time, NHS data finds

  17-12-2025 10:42
  45% of births were through C-sections, 44% through natural vaginal births and 11% assisted with forceps or ventouseBirths through caesarean section have overtaken natural vaginal births in England for the first time, NHS data has revealed.Last year, 45% of births in England were through caesareans, 44% were through natural vaginal births and 11% were assisted with instruments such as forceps or ventouse, according to the data published on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Revealed: Exactly what a week of drinking is doing to you. HARRY WALLOP took heart, liver, brain and blood tests to find out the truth. Read this before you pick up your next glass

  17-12-2025 09:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  December is a time when many of us drink more than normal - that extra glass of mulled wine after the carol concert, the office party involving shots and lurid cocktails, the annual meet-up with friends.
  
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• Scientists pinpoint four simple habits that can 'de-age' your brain by eight years

  17-12-2025 08:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A fresh study has revealed four simple habits that can 'de-age' your brain by up to eight years.
  
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• Resident doctors in England begin five days of strike action

  17-12-2025 08:00
  NHS leaders warn ‘more patients are likely to feel the impact of this round of strikes than the previous two’Resident doctors in England have begun five days of strike action after rejecting the government’s latest offer to resolve the long-running dispute over pay and jobs.The British Medical Association (BMA), and the health secretary, Wes Streeting, met on Tuesday in a final attempt to reach an agreement, but failed to do so. Continue reading...
  
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• I'm a neurologist and I will NEVER wear earphones or headphones to bed: 'Dementia risk'

  17-12-2025 06:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A neurologist has revealed the three everyday habits he refuses to do, including one that millions of people admit to doing every single night.
  
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• Best of 2025: Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’ – podcast

  17-12-2025 06:00
  Each week for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.From July: the Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until nowBy Abi Stephenson. Read by Nicolette Chin Continue reading...
  
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• Adults in England with eating disorders wait up to 700 days for treatment, report finds

  17-12-2025 06:00
  Audit finds on average adults wait twice as long as children for assessment and more than 10 times as long to be treatedAdults with eating disorders in England are waiting up to 700 days for vital treatment, according to a report.The stark figures were revealed in the first report of the National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED), which looked at access to eating disorder services across the country. Continue reading...
  
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• The truth about being a 'high-functioning' corporate drinker: I used to embarrass myself at work in ways I'll never forget. It took three marriages to see how toxic it was

  17-12-2025 04:17 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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• FDA issues urgent recall of supplement after it was discovered to be tainted with Viagra

  17-12-2025 04:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The FDA has issued an urgent recall for a 'male enhancement' supplement found to be contaminated with two undeclared prescription drugs for erectile dysfunction.
  
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• At least 60,000 operations and appointments expected to be cancelled as doctors 'abandon' patients to go on strike

  17-12-2025 01:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It means many patients will be forced to endure Christmas and New Year in prolonged agony, with no guarantee of when their treatment may be rescheduled.
  
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• Generation Snus: One in 25 Gen Z's now use highly addictive nicotine pouches figures show - despite Europe ban over heart health fears

  17-12-2025 00:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Half a million Britons overall, now use the pillow-shaped packages containing synthetic nicotine powder, scientists at University College London found.
  
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• Gen Z behind jump in use of oral nicotine pouches across Great Britain

  17-12-2025 00:30
  More than half a million people now consume products as experts link rise to ‘aggressive’ marketing and advertisingMore than 500,000 people in Great Britain now use nicotine pouches, with the significant rise in uptake driven by members of gen Z, research has revealed.Nicotine pouches are placed between the lip and gum to slowly release nicotine and come in a wide variety of different flavours. Health experts say the products, which are banned in Germany and the Netherlands, should n
  
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• FDA finds Walmart and Target continued to sell recalled toxic baby formula that has hospitalized dozens of infants

  16-12-2025 22:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The FDA sent retailers warning letters after the agency found stores had continued to sell recalled baby formula contaminated with a deadly toxin.
  
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• Wes Streeting and resident doctors urged to agree to mediation to end strikes

  16-12-2025 21:16
  Exclusive: Health bosses say mediation urgently needed to break deadlock as resident doctors prepare to strike from WednesdayExasperated NHS bosses have urged Wes Streeting and the British Medical Association to agree to independent mediation to end industrial action by resident doctors, who will begin their latest strike on Wednesday.The health secretary and the doctors union have been told to embrace the idea in order to urgently break the deadlock in their increasingly bitter dispute that hea
  
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• Striking resident doctors are digging in. History suggests this will go on and on

  16-12-2025 20:48
  The health secretary is winning the battle of public opinion but has not convinced those who matter most in this disputeThere are an array of numbers relating to the NHS that, it’s safe to assume, make Wes Streeting wince.Take, for example, the number of hospital tests and treatments people in England are waiting for – 7.42 million – and the number of people who need them – 6.24 million. Both have come down since Labour took power 17 months ago but still remain near worst
  
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• When GUY ADAMS revealed his 10-week body transformation, it was so astonishing he was accused of faking it. Now he reveals step-by-step photos, his food and exercise diary - and exactly how you can transform yourself too

  16-12-2025 20:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In just ten weeks Guy Adams slimmed and sculpted his body. Here's exactly what Guy learnt from the fitness and nutrition pros and how you can do it too.
  
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• The Guardian view on dentists: contractual tweaks won’t stop the rot | Editorial

  16-12-2025 20:03
  New appointments for urgent and complex care should be welcomed. But NHS dentistry requires more radical surgeryIf changes to the NHS dental contract in England result in fewer people being left to suffer with complex problems because they cannot get treatment, that will be a big gain. Sore teeth and gums are debilitating, and dentistry ought not to be out of reach for anyone who needs it.The decision to prioritise complex cases, as well as the lack of urgent care in some places, has been taken
  
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• Superflu sweeps US as cases skyrocket in major cities forcing school closures and mask mandates to return

  16-12-2025 19:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Multiple US states are seeing 'skyrocketing' cases of a new 'super flu' strain weeks earlier than expected, health officials warn, which has prompted additional school closures and masking guidelines.
  
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• Donald Trump and the Goldwater rule | Letter

  16-12-2025 19:00
  There’s a difference between armchair diagnosis and legitimate observation, and we must allow medical expertise to inform public discourse, writes Robert KrasnerThe debate regarding the “Goldwater rule” has intensified following President Trump’s recent rambling presentation in Pennsylvania (Trump rails on affordability ‘hoax’ and flings racist attacks in rally-style speech, 10 December). As a physician with decades of experience in health policy, I believe th
  
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• Scientists unravel main cause of cognitive decline in landmark research tracking 30,000 Americans for decades

  16-12-2025 18:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research pinpoints a common daily habit that has a surprisingly direct link to memory loss and mental decline as we age.
  
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• Too posh to push? More women in UK having Caesarean sections than natural births for first time - doctors blame obesity, age and desire to plan ahead for rise

  16-12-2025 18:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some 45.1 per cent of women who gave birth in 2024/25 delivered their baby via caesarean, up from just 9 per cent in 1980.
  
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• First she got breast cancer. Then her daughter did, too

  16-12-2025 18:00
  A breast cancer diagnosis is hard enough – what happens when a mother and daughter go through it at the same time?Genna Freed should have been in the mood to celebrate. On a cloudy November day in 2022, her mother, Julie Newman, was about to complete her final round of radiation, after being diagnosed with breast cancer in September. The whole family, a close-knit bunch, was gathering with balloons and signs.But Freed, then a few weeks shy of her 31st birthday, was carrying a secret. Spurr
  
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• 'Skyrocketing' new virus sweeps US and hits major cities...as schools shut and mask mandates are issued

  16-12-2025 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Multiple US states are seeing 'skyrocketing' cases of a new 'super flu' strain weeks earlier than expected, health officials warn, which has prompted additional school closures and masking guidelines.
  
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• Mediterranean diet could help beat cancer, new research shows

  16-12-2025 17:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The researchers say the findings add to growing evidence that the same lifestyle habits known to protect the heart may also improve survival after cancer.
  
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• You too can get a body like Guy Adams: the step-by-step fitness guide

  16-12-2025 17:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In just ten weeks Guy Adams slimmed and sculpted his body. Here's exactly what Guy learnt from the fitness and nutrition pros and how you can do it too.
  
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• NHS must learn lessons of Covid to overcome winter flu, say experts

  16-12-2025 15:18
  If not, academics say, people will continue to get sick and die while schools close and hospitals are overwhelmedWith flu cases rising and resident doctors on strike from Wednesday, the NHS is under considerable pressure. But experts say lessons from the Covid pandemic could help ease the situation.A trio of UK-based academics say a three-pronged approach of increasing uptake of flu vaccines, boosting support so people can stay home when unwell, and increasing ventilation and air quality would h
  
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• New obesity drug helps users drop 'significantly' more weight than Ozempic and Wegovy

  16-12-2025 15:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new drug by pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly rivaling Ozempic and Wegovy could lead to 'significantly' more weight loss after just one year, a trial showcasing initial results has suggested.
  
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