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• Migration during adolescence linked to increased psychosis risk, study finds

  02-10-2024 20:00
  
  Risk found to be highest among black and north African people, as experts call for better mental health provisionPeople who migrate in adolescence have an increased risk of psychosis, researchers have found, noting the link is particularly strong among black and north African people.While research has previously suggested migration could play a role in the increased risk of psychosis among people from ethnic minorities, the study suggests age could be an important factor. Continue reading...
  
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• New fear unlocked: Bizarre deaths caused by furniture - after woman is killed by her ottoman bed

  14-10-2024 16:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The incident, which occurred in June, isn't an isolated one and dozens of similar deaths from seemingly harmless household objects have been recorded in the past.
  
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• Doctors warn American teens are spreading Victorian era disease that can kill infants

  14-10-2024 16:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US is seeing a 'significant burden' of the highly contagious Victorian era disease whooping cough, particularly in high schoolers, health officials warn. Minnesota has seen a 17-fold increase (right).
  
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• Barman, 26, was diagnosed with mouth cancer and had to have his tongue removed - the major symptom was frighteningly easy-to-ignore

  14-10-2024 16:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  26-year-old Dan Durant from Stafford didn't think his ulcer was anything to worry about. But he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma -  a type of cancer.
  
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• Influencers driving MILLIONS of TikTok viewers to think they have undiagnosed ADHD - when a tiny fraction really do, say experts

  14-10-2024 15:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research shows fewer than one in 20 people in the UK actually suffer from the disorder, characterised by difficulty concentrating, hyperactivity and impulsiveness.
  
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• Pictured: Innocuous leg rash that was the first warning sign of blood cancer in 27-year-old woman

  14-10-2024 13:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jessica Hamersley, from Essex, thought little of a red splotch on her left shin that kept reappearing over the course of a year.
  
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• Stomach-churning truth about the chlorine smell in swimming pools (yes, the rumour is true)

  14-10-2024 13:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former NASA and Apple engineer Mark Rober has confirmed the stomach-churning truth why swimming pools stink in what he has called 'the most terrifying experiment' he has ever done.
  
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• Badenoch accused of ‘stigmatising’ autism and mental health issues in comments over support – UK politics live

  14-10-2024 12:18
  The Tory leadership contender came under fire from a former cabinet colleague over her comments in a foreword to an essayMusk not barred from UK investment summit, says ministerMore than 100 venues are backing Martyn’s law to help protect the public from terror attacks, ahead of the second reading of the terrorism (protection of premises) bill in the House of Commons today.Parts of the bill are named for Martyn Hett, 29, who was killed along with 21 other people when suicide bomber Salman
  
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• One in four adults now think they have ADHD... and social media is driving trend for self-diagnosis

  14-10-2024 12:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research shows fewer than one in 20 people in the UK actually suffer from the disorder, characterised by difficulty concentrating, hyperactivity and impulsiveness.
  
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• Professor Tim Spector: Ultra-processed school dinners are 'poisoning' children

  14-10-2024 12:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Tim Spector, founder of the popular nutrition ZOE app, said the meals, which 'are under the control of the Government' are 'terrible'.
  
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• One MILLION overweight Brits will be paying for fat jabs like Ozempic by this time next year

  14-10-2024 12:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Analysts say the number of private prescriptions for fat busting jabs like Ozempic in the UK are predicted to soar to over 1million next year, if current skyrocketing demand continues.
  
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• I was fit and healthy before I got the Covid booster jab but now I can barely walk to the next room - it's destroyed me

  14-10-2024 11:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Larry Lowe, 54, used to run 10km most days and played in a rock band, but is now in so much pain he lies in bed at night screaming and crying after his body mistook the Covid jab for a 'toxin'.
  
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• Europe’s medical schools to give more training on diseases linked to climate crisis

  14-10-2024 08:00
  
  New climate network will teach trainee doctors more about heatstroke, dengue and malaria and role of global warming in healthMosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria will become a bigger part of the curriculum at medical schools across Europe in the face of the climate crisis.Future doctors will also have more training on how to recognise and treat heatstroke, and be expected to take the climate impact of treatments such as inhalers for asthma into account, medical school leaders said,
  
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• Doctors say UK’s immigration system risks ‘re-traumatising’ asylum seekers

  14-10-2024 07:00
  
  Exclusive: Royal College of Psychiatrists calls for review of laws, saying Labour has ‘moral and ethical obligation’ to protect those seeking sanctuary in UKTop doctors have identified Britain’s immigration system as a “public mental health concern” that inflicts harm on asylum seekers, and risks “re-traumatising” those already affected by psychological distress.The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) has called on ministers to review immigration laws i
  
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• Simple saliva test could save the NHS millions of pounds by speeding up prostate cancer diagnoses

  14-10-2024 02:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Studies show new methods of prostate cancer diagnosis have slashed the risk of harm from unnecessary biopsies and cut deaths.
  
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• Seriously injured children wait longer for A&E treatment if they are brought in by parents rather than an ambulance, research finds

  14-10-2024 01:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children found those taken to hospital by carers typically waited an hour to seen by emergency doctors rather than immediately if blue-lighted there.
  
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• NHS guidance on prostate cancer tests slammed for being 'outdated' and costing thousands of lives each year

  14-10-2024 01:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Studies show new methods of diagnosis have slashed the risk of harm from unnecessary biopsies and cut deaths.
  
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• Despite having a loving partner, Mark feels unloveable. He grew up in a world that shamed him for who he is | Chris Cheers

  14-10-2024 00:38
  
  Just as the cause of shame is outside us, so too must be the cure. Connection with others and collective action is a path to self-acceptance and beliefThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workMark, a queer man in his mid 30s, has been seeing me fortnightly for a few months now. I have learned that Mark loves his work and lives with his loving partner in a home they love, on a street they love, with a dog they love.I have also learned tha
  
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• I was diagnosed with Parkinson's at 44 after working in a chemical plant for two decades- I believe there's a link

  13-10-2024 21:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Benjamin Bement from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told DailyMail.com that during his career, he was 'chronically exposed to miniscule amounts of 60 different chemicals.'
  
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• I had 23 surgeries before I was 20 to fix a birth defect... now I work under the doctor who changed my life

  13-10-2024 19:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One young St Louis woman returns to shadow the doctor who gave her a new lease on life by performing a ground-breaking surgery on her jaw.
  
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• I'm an ex-USDA food expert - here's how to avoid stomach bugs when eating on vacation and cruises

  13-10-2024 18:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Darin Detwiler, a leading food safety expert in the US, told DailyMail.com that norovirus is 'the most common gastrointestinal illness on the high seas.'
  
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• Coroners’ warnings must carry the force of law | Letters

  13-10-2024 18:36
  
  Christine and Francis Saunders cannot know if improvements suggested by the coroner’s inquest into the death of their daughter have been implemented. Plus a letter from two doctors on safeguarding adults reviewsWe wholeheartedly agree that prevention of future deaths (PFD) reports issued by coroners should have legal force in order to save lives (The Guardian view on the coroner’s role: if deaths can be prevented, they should be, 8 October). We proposed this last December to Maria Ca
  
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• Did Melania Trump have a secret $50,000 face-lift - top US surgeon gives his verdict facial plastic surgery of former FLOTUS as she releases memoir

  13-10-2024 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former first lady Melania Trump denied ever having any plastic surgery but Dr Gary Linkov, top US plastic surgeon based in New York estimates Melania has spent $50,000 on a face-lift.
  
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• Good news, everyone! We appear to have reached peak longevity | Emma Beddington

  13-10-2024 15:00
  
  Forget blue zones, superfoods and hi-tech rejuvenation therapies: study after study suggests our dreams of immortality will never come true. But maybe that’s just the kick in the pants humanity needsThe news hasn’t been good for people planning to live for ever. First came Dr Saul Newman’s investigative work into supercententarians – those aged 110 or older. In a paper titled “Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors
  
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• The astonishing link between having COVID and heart attacks: As more fit and healthy young women suffer coronaries, doctors close in on cause

  13-10-2024 13:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  They do not seem to be typical candidates for heart attacks. Slim and healthy, they are fit young people who don't smoke, and may not show signs of type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol or blood pressure.
  
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• Guilt, worry, resentment: how the ‘club sandwich’ generation juggles caring for parents, children and grandparents

  13-10-2024 13:00
  
  With people surviving longer and with greater infirmity, the pressures on adults living among three other generations are increasingLike the doctor in a corny joke, the study published last week by the Journals of Gerontology had some good news and some bad news.The good news, say researchers from University College London (UCL) and Oxford University, is that people born in the 1940s and 1950s are living longer than their parents. The bad news is that they are more likely to be ill. Continue rea
  
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• Experts discover surprising daily activity that's making you 'tired all the time'

  13-10-2024 10:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  By the end of a day filled with cognitive tasks we may find it even harder to make rational decisions, and researchers say a build up of a brain chemical could be to blame.
  
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• Women are eating dark web bought tapeworm eggs to lose weight - here's what it does to their brains

  13-10-2024 09:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Medics have shared a cautionary tale, based on real stories of patients they have seen, of a women who fell into a trap posed by manipulative sellers based on the dark web.
  
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• Can you resist all the addictions modern life throws at you? Only if you’re rich enough | Martha Gill

  13-10-2024 09:30
  Freedom from the temptations pushed at us on a daily basis is now a class issueThey are problems of success, really, these modern ills. Social media addiction, gaming disorders, the compulsive over-eating of sugar and processed gloop: they are products of a society with more than enough food, leisure time and boredom, and without the life-or-death excitement that kept our ancestors busy.We could perhaps think of our rising addiction problems as something like a peacock’s tail or companiona
  
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• Why everything you think about living to 100 might be wrong

  13-10-2024 08:00
  While healthy eating and regular workouts are certainly good for us, many scientists now believe that genes rather than lifestyle are the determining factor in how long we liveTech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson is talking about 16th-century sailors. Back then, he says, circumnavigating the globe was the height of human achievement. But those sailors, some of whom were coincidentally hoping to find a mythical fountain of youth, left port without knowing what really lay ahead. The same is true for Jo
  
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