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• Light therapy helps burn injuries heal faster by triggering growth protein

  06-08-2021 16:43
  The research found that photobiomodulation -- a form of low-dose light therapy -- sped up recovery from burns and reduced inflammation in mice by activating a protein that controls cell growth and division.
  
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• A childhood desire to wear women’s pants has returned. Is it perverted? | Ask Annalisa

  06-08-2021 16:00
  
  Don’t be ashamed. Shame is for the other people in your life who failed you, says Annalisa BarbieriAs a child, I stole a pair of my mother’s high-waisted, pink and white nylon knickers and wore them under my short trousers to school. I was six years old and not getting what I needed from her. I felt I couldn’t access her. She was physically and emotionally unavailable, and in a marriage that was “on the rocks”, as she used to say. I had also tried to tell my parents
  
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• Local Mr Whippy Keeps Care Home Residents Cool During Heatwave with Free 99s

  06-08-2021 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Friend of Dene Holm and local ice cream man, Danny Coyne helped residents stay cool at the Northfleet residential care home, as he treated them all to free ice creams.It was 99s all round this week, as kind local Danny served up a sweet treat for the residents of the Dene Holm Road care home amidst the scorching heatwave.The residents were overjoyed when he turned up with his Mr Whippy van and parked up in front of the care home. They took themselves out to choose their ice cream, and for those
  
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• Creative kids brighten up social care charity’s new space

  06-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Children from Northallerton School & Sixth Form College present Avalon customers and staff with the beautiful new wall-hanging.A local social care charity recently received the incredible donation of a beautiful hand-made wall hanging created by a group of talented children at Northallerton School & Sixth Form College.The Avalon Group, an award-winning charity operating across the north of England, gratefully received the gift to help brighten up its new office in Northallerton.Locality
  
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