GPs will be named and shamed over failure to see patients face to face
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Reading Time: < 1 minute GPs 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 minute Heartbreaking 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 minute Disposible 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 minute People 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 minute It’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 minute CENTRE 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 minute Ahead 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 minute When 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…
Scientists discover a new virus lurking in bats: Similar pathogens kill up to one in three humans
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Scientists have discovered a new virus lurking in bats. The Kiwira virus — a type of hantavirus — has been found in…