Sleep: Washing your sheets infrequently could raise your risk of three 'deadly' conditions
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA third of Britons wash their bedding only once a year, according to a 2020 server by Hammond Furniture. Read More
GPs will be named and shamed over failure to see patients face to face
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteGPs failing to see patients face to face will be named and shamed for the first time, amid concerns that poor access to family doctors…
Heartbreaking figures reveal how many homeless people are dying in North East
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHeartbreaking new figures have revealed how many homeless people died in the North East last year. Read More
Single-use vapes 'harm children and the environment and should be banned': Experts say the devices get young people hooked on nicotine and contain plastic and batteries
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDisposible vapes pose a danger to children’s health and the environment and should be banned, doctors and charities warned yesterday. Read More
Bad filling about this: Vaping causes your teeth to ROT and makes mouth 'more hospitable to bacteria', study finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople who vape are more at risk of developing cavities in their teeth, warns a new study. Read More
Looking after your grandkids can stop you getting lonely, scientists say... but caring for a spouse WON'T
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s said that grandchildren keep you young. Now scientists say they stop you getting lonely too. Read More
57% of sex workers HIV positive
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCENTRE for Sexual Health, HIV and Aids Research (CeSHHAR) says more than 57% of female sex workers in the country’s 22 hotspot…
HIV: Prevalence in girls, women 60% higher than in men, says NACA
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAhead of World AIDS Day (December 1), National Agency for Control of AIDS (NACA), yesterday, alerted that girls and women in Nigeria…
Longest surviving heart transplant patient reveals relatives died after dismissing surgery
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen Sandy Law went for a heart transplant in 1982, it was a procedure fraught not only with uncertainty but controversy. Read More
Measles now an imminent global threat due to pandemic, say WHO and CDC
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Reading Time: < 1 minute There is now an imminent threat of measles spreading in various regions globally, as COVID-19 led to a steady decline in…