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• New Brunswick premier calls on Canadian government to investigate mysterious brain illness

  15-11-2024 20:02
  
  Previous provincial government said most patients were misdiagnosed and instead had dementia or cancerThe newly elected premier of New Brunswick has called on Canada’s federal government to aid in a “full, open scientific investigation” into the mysterious brain illness that has plagued the province for years, in a move that those suffering from the condition hope could finally bring answers.“We need to conduct a thorough investigation into what is making people sick,&rdq
  
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• How to beat pain for good: the cutting-edge science, the expert medical views... and the surprising therapies that could work for you, revealed by top doctors

  16-11-2024 02:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Everyone experiences pain from time to time - but while for most of us the discomfort of an injury, for instance, will pass as it heals, many people can endure months or even years of it
  
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• Popular late night habit could make girls start their periods earlier, experts suggest

  16-11-2024 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from the Gazi University in Turkey found exposure to blue light, like that typically shone out of screens and tablets lead to accelerated bone growth in rats triggering an early puberty in the rodents.
  
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• Science explains why women really 'get the ick' - and how it could actually save their lives

  15-11-2024 22:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists say that 'the ick' might not just be a feature of the modern dating world, and that it's roots go back to our evolutionary ancestors.
  
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• Streeting warns Britons against having cheap cosmetic surgery abroad

  15-11-2024 22:00
  
  Wes Streeting speaks out after deaths in Turkey among women travelling for procedures such as butt liftsBritons should resist the temptation to have cosmetic surgery abroad at “rock-bottom” prices in case they are harmed by substandard care, the health secretary has said.Wes Streeting spoke out after a spate of deaths among women who had travelled to Turkey for aesthetic treatment such as a Brazilian butt lift (BBL). Continue reading...
  
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• Jason Biggs' wife among rising head lice victims as $1.3B treatment market soars

  15-11-2024 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Lice Treatment Global Market Report 2024 from ResearchAndMarkets.com reveals that there has been a 'global rise in the incidence of lice infestations.'
  
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• CDC warns of measles surge and decline in vaccinations as Trump nominates vaccine-skeptic RFK Jr to head health

  15-11-2024 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The CDC and WHO teamed up to warn the world about a concerning explosion in measles cases, suggesting thatdrop off of vaccine rates is largely to blame
  
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• UK’s unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, report finds

  15-11-2024 20:24
  
  Exclusive: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission added up cost to NHS and economy of diet-linked diseaseThe UK’s growing addiction to unhealthy food costs £268bn a year, far outstripping the budget for the whole NHS, the first research into the subject has found.The increased consumption of foods high in fat, salt and sugar or which have been highly processed is having a “devastating” impact on human health and Britain’s finances.The market in ultra-processed foo
  
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• Bath salts made me catatonic but the wrong diagnosis made my symptoms even worse

  15-11-2024 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 17-year-old girl who took what police later confirmed was bath salts in the Alps was left in a catatonic state for about six weeks.
  
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• Trans for Trump: Meet the Americans who've transitioned gender and voted Republican for 'common sense' reasons

  15-11-2024 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Many detransitioners have come forward to say that they voted for Donald Trump in the US presidential election. They have also revealed their reasons for making the move.
  
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• Mike Pence urges Senate Republicans to reject RFK Jr for US health secretary

  15-11-2024 19:05
  
  Ex-vice-president rebukes Kennedy’s stance on abortion while Matt Gaetz, another Trump pick, faces ‘uphill battle’US politics live – latest updatesMike Pence, the former vice-president, urged Senate Republicans on Friday to reject Donald Trump’s choice of Robert F Kennedy Jr as health secretary – although he cited Kennedy’s support for abortion rights, while other critics are most outraged at his stance against vaccines.Pence’s comments came as pub
  
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• Revealed: The common medications that make your flu shot less effective

  15-11-2024 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors warn people should be careful about the medications they use before or after they get vaccinated.
  
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• Voluntary registers and regulation in psychotherapy | Letters

  15-11-2024 18:27
  
  Jon Levett notes the importance of checking a therapist’s credentials and the action that can be taken, while Stephanie Calman says it would be useful to have one official licensing and regulation bodyThere is a lack of understanding of the role of voluntary registers in the regulation of those practising psychotherapy (MPs urge government to regulate UK psychotherapists and counsellors, 9 October). The UK Council for Psychotherapy’s registers of psychotherapists and psychotherapeuti
  
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• Covid is no laughing matter when it continues to hurt so many | Letters

  15-11-2024 18:27
  
  Dr Elke Hausmann and Sue Hewison respond to Tim Dowling’s column about his sons testing positiveThank you, Tim Dowling, for exposing how even the few people who still dare to say the word “Covid” (who is even still testing for Covid?) are happy to make light of it now (Tim Dowling: two of my sons are home – and have brought Covid with them, 9 November). Never mind that people are continuing to die from it (245,069 deaths by 25 Oct 2024, 316 more than seven days before, ac
  
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• Smoking pot makes you age faster and leads to birth defects in your future kids, study suggests

  15-11-2024 18:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from The University of Western Australia looked at evidence across the board on cannabis use and said the startling findings 'reframe the discussion of cannabis legalization'.
  
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• Got cold hands? Take the 1-minute test that reveals if you have debilitating Raynaud's disease

  15-11-2024 17:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Raynaud's is a disorder that effects your blood circulation causing a temporary narrowing of the arteries that cause parts of the body to become painful, cold and even change colour.
  
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• I have spent my life looking after my depressive, controlling mum – can I move on? | Ask Annalisa

  15-11-2024 15:30
  This is one of the most controlling mother/daughter relationships I’ve ever seen. You have done more than enough for herEvery week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a problem sent in by a readerMy mother has led a hard life. Diagnosed with clinical depression many years ago, she has made multiple “suicide attempts”, ranging from when I was aged nine to the last one 12 years ago when I was 31. I’m an only child, unmarried, and my mum did not marry after my dad left her. She did
  
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• Experts say daily 'sitting down limit' can ward off heart attacks - are YOU meeting the target?

  15-11-2024 15:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It's long been known that sitting for too long, and lack of physical activity, can affect heart health. But just how much sitting is too much?
  
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• Osher Günsberg: ‘The worst thing is being told the pain is all in your head. But holy moly, was it empowering!’

  15-11-2024 15:00
  From hard-partying TV star to mindfulness-practising family guy, Günsberg says he got really lucky in life. But he also got osteoarthritis in his 30sGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOsher Günsberg keeps stopping to smell the flowers. As we walk along Sydney’s eastern coastline, he cuts himself off mid-sentence to point out warrigal greens (“cook them like kale or spinach, they’re really good”) and ginger (someone will pinch it soon, he says, given &ldq
  
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• Smog crisis envelops Indian capital as Pakistan province declares emergency

  15-11-2024 13:56
  
  Schools ordered to close in Delhi and Punjab province as neighbouring countries battle dangerous air pollutionIndia’s capital, Delhi, has ordered all primary schools to cease in-person classes until further notice because of an air pollution crisis that has also prompted Pakistan’s Punjab province to declare a health emergency and ban construction, shut schools for another week and move universities online.Delhi and the surrounding metropolitan area, home to more than 30 million peop
  
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• The most outrageous health claims peddled by the US' new anti-vaxxer health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr: From 'chemicals could make you trans' to the 'dead worm' in his brain

  15-11-2024 13:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The nomination comes despite bizarre health claims made by Kennedy over the years, including a worm 'ate' part of his brain, chemicals are making children trans and vaccines cause autism.
  
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• The most outrageous health claims peddled by the US' new anti-vaxxer health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jnr: From 'chemicals could make you trans' to the 'dead worm' in his brain

  15-11-2024 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The nomination comes despite bizarre health claims made by Kennedy over the years, including a worm 'ate' part of his brain, chemicals are making children trans and vaccines cause autism.
  
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• Pharma shares hit as Trump picks RFK Jr to lead health department

  15-11-2024 13:21
  
  Choice of vaccine critic knocks some of world’s biggest drugmakers including Moderna, AstraZeneca and GSKWho is RFK Jr and what are his likely top priorities?Business live – latest updatesInvestors in pharmaceutical companies are selling off stock after Donald Trump nominated the anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services.RFK Jr has embraced numerous health-related conspiracy theories, and is one of the most persistent and influen
  
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• Anti-ageing 'guru' Bryan Johnson shares shocking selfie showing how his latest attempt to turn back the clock went disastrously wrong

  15-11-2024 13:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 47-year-old anti-aging multimillionaire, who has blood transfusions from his teenage son, has previously been focused on reversing his biological age. But his recent experiment went wrong.
  
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• ‘It is a pandemic’: UK’s envoy on superbugs says scale of threat underestimated

  15-11-2024 12:53
  
  Dame Sally Davies says action on deadly antibiotic-resistant infections must be prioritisedThe rising death toll from drug-resistant bugs is “very scary” and people do not even realise it is happening, the UK’s special envoy for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has said.Superbugs kill more than a million people each year but neither governments nor the public recognise the scale of the threat, doctors complain. The crisis is largely driven by the misuse of antibiotics – abo
  
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• Doctors told me my earache was just an infection: It turned out to be cancer and now I want to warn everyone about the little-known signs

  15-11-2024 12:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To see him now, you'd be hard pressed to imagine what Harvey Deaton has been through. He's fit and healthy and enjoys spending his time between the UK and Spain.
  
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• Davina McCall to have brain surgery for ‘very rare’ benign tumour

  15-11-2024 12:26
  
  TV presenter says colloid cyst was found during a check-up she was given as part of her menopause workDavina McCall has said she is to undergo brain surgery after being diagnosed with a “very rare” tumour.The TV presenter, 57, said the benign brain tumour, known as a colloid cyst, was found after she was offered a health check-up as part of her menopause advocacy work. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I couldn’t tell my parents I loved them’: documentary-maker Duncan Cowles on giving silent men a voice

  15-11-2024 12:00
  
  The Scottish film-maker on bringing humour to his look at male emotional repression, being compared to Louis Theroux, and his problems with reality TVSilence is golden – at least where men are concerned. The “strong, silent type” endures as an aspirational archetype, whether you are a man yourself, or simply someone who interacts with them. In popular fiction, the Jack Reacher action novels have sold about 100m copies. The big man’s catchphrase is, tellingly, not a p
  
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• Experts reveal terrifying dangers of ultra-rare brain tumour that's hit Davina McCall - from speech problems to sudden death

  15-11-2024 11:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In an Instagram post this morning, the TV presenter, 57, said she had a 'very rare' colloid cyst, which affects just three in a million people.
  
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• Mum of-two left hospitalised and 'vomiting blood' after just one injection of weight loss jab she bought from beautician

  15-11-2024 11:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nicole Wright, 31, from North Ayrshire in Scotland was left 'rolling around in pain' after injecting the lowest possible dose of a weight loss jab she bought from a beautician for £120.
  
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