What I gained (and lost) from walking 10,000 steps a day for five months
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Reading Time: < 1 minute On 2 January 2021, a friend told me that their New Year’s resolution was to walk 10,000 steps a day. Read More
Thousands of NHS workers to vote on whether to strike over pay
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Around half-a-million hospital workers are set to be given the opportunity to go on strike over pay in the coming months, Read…
Children as young as six are suffering from 'midlife' eye disease because they spend too much time in front of a screen
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A rise in screen time has seen children as young as six suffer from an excruciating eye condition which usually affects adults,…
Struggling hospices fear demand for beds will grow as dying patients can’t afford to heat homes
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The cost of living crisis could force dying patients to move into hospice beds as they can no longer afford to heat…
IVD and Bimbo: how drugs, HIV, domestic violence and gangsterism ruined their marriage
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Reading Time: < 1 minute FILE PHOTO: About 2880 candles are seen lit during a World AIDS Day event in Jakarta December 1, 2009. REUTERS/Dadang Tri/File Photo…
Ebola: Uganda president restricts movement into and out of two districts hit with new Ebola wave
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Two districts in Uganda have entered an immediate 21-day lockdown which will include a nightly curfew, travel bans and Read More
BQ.1.1 is among the most immune-evasive COVID variants yet. It’s coming in hot in the U.S.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Omicron spawn BQ.1 and its offspring—the highly immune-evasive BQ.1.1—are coming in hot in the U.S. Read More
Some 700 children die every day from diseases caused by inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene, according to UNICEF.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Hand hygiene is essential to prevent the spread of infection and disease, Read More
Covid lockdown boozing causes deaths from liver disease to soar
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Deaths from alcohol-related liver disease reached record levels at the height of the Covid pandemic, Read More
Doctors attack Thérèse Coffey’s ‘risky’ plan for pharmacy antibiotic prescriptions without GPs
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Doctors have criticised “risky” plans from Thérèse Coffey for chemists to prescribe antibiotics to patients without seeing a GP Read More