Hundreds left with lost or damaged eyesight after NHS delays – research
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Hundreds of patients have lost their eyesight or had it irreparably damaged because of NHS backlogs, new research suggests. Read More
First birds, now mammals: how H5N1 is killing thousands of sea lions in Peru
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Reading Time: < 1 minute At first, it appears to be dead. Its head lies in the sand, and a small tide pool has formed around it….
Dentists: 'Some children in Norfolk have never seen a toothbrush'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A dentist who visits schools to check children’s dental health has said some six-year-olds “have never seen a toothbrush”. Read More
Warnings against 'reckless' weight loss surgery abroad
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Seven British patients who travelled to Turkey for weight loss surgery died after operations there, a BBC investigation into the trend has…
World's happiest countries revealed: Finland tops global league table for SIXTH year in a row, while Britain falls two places and the US jumps up one
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Finland was today named the world’s happiest country — once again. Read More
Cost of living crisis is fuelling 'second major health emergency' in three years after Covid pandemic pushes desperate families to the brink
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Health chiefs have warned the cost of living crisis’s detrimental impact is fuelling a ‘second health emergency’ in three years after the Covid-19 pandemic Read…
'Worrisome' deadly fungus spreading through US at alarming rate
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A drug-resistant and potentially deadly fungus is spreading rapidly through US health facilities, according to a government study. Read More
Ghana: 'Don't Stigmatise Persons Living With HIV/Aids
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A person living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Reverend John Kworshie Azumah, has advised Ghanaians against the stigmatisation of persons living…
Somalia drought: 43,000 died last year and ‘crisis is far from over’ says study
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Reading Time: < 1 minute An estimated 43,000 Somalis died during the country’s longest ever drought last year, half of them likely to have been children under…
French, US hostages released after years of captivity in West Africa
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A US aid worker and French journalist who had been kidnapped by militants in West Africa have been released. Read More