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• Can good sleep patterns offset genetic susceptibility to heart disease and stroke?

  18-12-2019 21:34
  A pioneering new study found that even if people had a high genetic risk of heart disease or stroke, healthy sleep patterns could help offset that risk.
  
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• Power to detain learning disabled people 'needs reform'

  18-12-2019 07:01
  
  Some are wrongly held because of flaws in Scotland’s mental health legislation – reviewSignificant reforms are needed to stop people with learning disabilities being unnecessarily detained because of flaws in Scotland’s mental health legislation, according to an independent review.The review said Scotland’s mental health act 2003 breached the human rights of people with learning disabilities and autism because it treated their disabilities as mental disorders. Continue re
  
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• 'It's a very harsh environment': judge's play shines light on family courts

  18-12-2019 07:00
  
  A judge’s play shows some of the secret workings of family courts amid calls for greater transparencyA distraught young mother sits in front of a judge in a family court. Beside her sits her baby’s social worker. Alongside are the child’s grandmother and grandfather, and at the end of the row, a young man, the father. His leg taps and jumps. He looks away, looks down, looks anywhere but at the judge. The judge too looks anywhere but at the family in front of him. As he speaks,
  
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• ‘Family courts are brutal places and can treat parents inhumanely’

  18-12-2019 07:00
  
  A judge’s play shines a critical light on the secret workings of family courts amid calls for greater transparencyA distraught young mother sits in front of a judge in a family court. Beside her sits her baby’s social worker. Alongside are the child’s grandmother and grandfather, and at the end of the row, a young man, the father. His leg taps and jumps. He looks away, looks down, looks anywhere but at the judge. The judge too looks anywhere but at the family in front of him. A
  
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