North East doctors prescribe days out for depression and loneliness
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new approach to helping people with depression is becoming more and more popular. Read More
Consultants want up to £262 an hour to cover strike days for junior doctors
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteConsultants in England want at least three times their basic pay to provide emergency cover for junior doctors during this month’s three-day…
Do YOU struggle to remember faces? You could be one of the 5% of people with FACE BLINDNESS: Take this 20-point test to find out...
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLots of us are bad with remembering names, but can still pick out a past colleague or old flame when they pop…
Ditch bottled water over ‘emerging contaminant’ fears, scientists say
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrowave meals and bottled water should be avoided, scientists believe, as a study found microplastic particles may be able to get into…
Norovirus cases in over-65s in England at highest in a decade
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCases of norovirus among people over 65 in England have reached their highest level in a decade, with care homes hard hit…
Couple sues fertility clinic after giving birth to son with cancer gene
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple has sued a fertility clinic in California claiming that it transplanted an embryo with a cancer mutation during an IVF process…
Impact of pornography not taught enough in schools in England, survey finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteStudents are not being taught enough about the impact of pornography and dangerous relationships, Read More
Scotland first to ban environmentally harmful anaesthetic
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteScotland has become the first country in the world to stop its hospitals using the anaesthetic desflurane because of the threat it…
Kerala: Woman's fight to find doctors responsible for forceps left in her body
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA woman in the southern Indian state of Kerala who suffered through years of excruciating pain because of a botched surgery says…
How to tell if you're really overweight - and it's NOT by checking your BMI
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than half of the world will be overweight or obese by 2035, a damning report warned today. Read More