10-minute scan 'could rid millions of adults of high blood pressure'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Up to one in 20 people with high blood pressure could have their condition cured or dramatically improved thanks to a new…
NHS trust declined care for vulnerable Black patient days before he died in police custody
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Reading Time: < 1 minute An NHS trust declined to provide care for a vulnerable Black man days before he died in police custody while having a…
Basildon Hospital maternity staff exposed to 30 times legal gas limit
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Staff at a maternity unit were exposed to almost 30 times the legal workplace exposure limit for nitrous oxide, documents have shown….
The silent shame of male fistula
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In December, gospel musician William Getumbe caused a stir in Eldoret when he put on diapers and danced on the streets…
Did you know it's illegal to flush the toilet after 10pm in Switzerland? Or ride a cow while drunk in Scotland? 21 of the world's most bizarre laws
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Reading Time: < 1 minute You might not think that flushing the toilet after 10pm in Switzerland, giving alcohol to a moose in Alaska or swearing in the United Arab…
Postpartum psychosis: new mothers speak out over need for support
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Orlaith Quinn was an outgoing, vivacious mother of two until halfway through her third pregnancy, when she became uncharacteristically withdrawn. Read More
To die the way she did, it wasn't humane': Family's fury as woman dies after being forced to wait in an ambulance outside A&E department for 15 hours
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The family of a woman who ‘bled to death’ after being forced to wait 15 hours in an ambulance outside an A&E…
How you're being ripped off by cold and flu medicines... but there's one way to stop yourself paying DOUBLE the price to beat the sniffles
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Reading Time: < 1 minute With Britain currently battling the ‘Kraken’, a ‘flu-nami’ and an explosion of other bugs, remedies that promise to banish the sniffles are…
Africa: How Africa's Digital Health Services Are Benefiting Patients
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Reading Time: < 1 minute With rising internet connectivity, African governments are turning to digital health services to handle a shortage of health workers — and to…
How a young woman's dream holiday to Thailand turned into a health nightmare that stumped doctors for seven years
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A dream family holiday to Thailand has turned into an ongoing nightmare for a young woman who has spent the last seven years…