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Medical groups offer vaccine guidance to fill federal vacuum
In the unprecedented absence of federal guidance, leading medical groups are issuing their own recommendations for who should get the COVID-
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Social media 'spiral' found after sister's death
A woman whose 13-year-old sister took her own life says the "spiral that she was going through" was evident from her social media history.
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Whatever happened to ... children infected with HIV due to failures in healthcare?
For years, Pakistan has seen cases of children infected with HIV due to unsafe treatment in clinics and hospitals. A current outbreak number
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Former nurse dies amid dementia drug shortages
Pearl Roche died with dementia weeks after her family struggled to get supplies of her medication.
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Free cholesterol tests on the NHS are great – but here’s the five-point health MOT I’d really like to see | Devi Sridhar
You could be walking around symptom-free and not know you’re pre-diabetic, living with hypertension or at a high risk of a heart attackProf
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Heart trial after breast cancer has 'improved my life'
Lucy Shepherd is one of 90 women to take part in a trial helping cancer survivors come off medication.
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Families hit by long waits for dementia diagnosis
Hundreds of families say they have had to wait months or even years for a dementia diagnosis for a loved one.
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Urine test can spot more than nine in 10 bladder cancers
The NHS has been trialling the test and says the results so far are truly promising.
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Rising numbers of children in mental health crisis ending up in A&E
NHS emergency departments are seeing more cases of self-harm, eating disorders and emotional distress in young people.
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Single amino acid swap expands nanoparticle vaccine approach to influenza viruses
Influenza viruses constantly shapeshift to evade recognition by the immune system. This shapeshifting occurs in critical proteins like hemag
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Women pose as men to buy testosterone online after prescription difficulties
One menopause specialists says she’s seen women with up to 12 times the safe level of the hormone.
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Dry eyes are common among women. Here's why you shouldn't ignore it
Dry eyes are a very common chronic eye condition among women in perimenopause and beyond. Here's why you shouldn't ignore it.
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UK to almost triple funding to tackle DR Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak
The UK is increasing its commitment to efforts to contain the fastest spreading Ebola outbreak ever to £78.7 million
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Assisted dying, palliative care and patient choice | Letters
Readers respond to an article by Dr Zubir Ahmed, who argued that better palliative care should be prioritised before assisted dying is legal
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We must do more to save care leavers’ lives | Letters
Readers respond to a report on the tragic consequences of the ‘care cliff’, when vital support is taken away at age 18Your article draws att
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Full-blown adulthood: does it actually start at 50?
According to a new survey, that’s the age when people feel most confident and in control of their lives. In other words, they no longer have
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Forget T-maxxing – the manosphere’s obsession with testosterone is just fear-maxxing | Donna Lu
Testosterone replacement therapy comes with serious and potentially irreversible health risks including infertility and early heart diseaseR
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After a reckoning and the toppling, what is replacing Britain’s symbols of empire?
In this month’s newsletter: communities are reshaping how empire is remembered in public life. Plus, holding royalty to account in Jamaica a
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Marzetti’s (MZTI) Record Streak Hits a Wall With Outbreak and Guidance Cut
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Gaps in NHS end-of-life care ‘denying ill children chance to die at home’
Campaigners say some care boards in England flouting their legal duty, resulting in ‘cruel’ postcode lotterySeriously ill children are being
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They live by a shrine to a saint. Why are their homes being demolished?
The neighborhood is a pilgrimage site, with a shrine to the Sufi saint known as Bari Imam. In the past year, hundreds of homes of the workin
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A NY hospital tried to close its birthing center. This city united to fight back
Democrats and Republicans in Troy, New York, took on a national Catholic health system and kept the county's last birthing center open.
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People Fixing The World
What can be done to prevent, detect and treat the silent killer, sepsis?
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Nimbys can’t stand in the way of Labour’s legacy: a 21st-century new town boom | Polly Toynbee
Which do Enfield’s Tories and Greens value more – a golf course or thousands of new homes? It’s a question of political valuesNew towns will
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