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Women's Health UK‘I walked 25k steps per day for a year, here are 12 things I’ve learned’
Athlete Keltie O'Connor walked 10 miles per day for the past year, here's everything it has done for her mind and body.
- The Telegraph
A British inventor helped save millions from HIV – now he wants to do it all over again
At the age of 23 Marc Koska came up with an invention credited with saving millions of lives. Forty years later, he thinks can do it all over again.
- The Telegraph
Abolish the NHS to save lives, institute demands
The NHS should be abolished to save lives, a paper by the Institute of Economic Affairs, said on Thursday.
- Yahoo News UK
Does the COVID vaccine protect against the new XEC variant?
One UCL scientist said it could become the dominant variant over the winter.
- Yahoo Life UK
'Long COVID left me so exhausted I felt like I was dying'
Janet Johnston-Oger, 50, was so badly affected by the illness that some days the only activity she could manage was brushing her teeth.
- Herald Scotland
Comedian Janey Godley cancels tour and stops work ‘for the foreseeable future’
Scottish comedian Janey Godley has cancelled her autumn tour amid ongoing treatment for terminal ovarian cancer.
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Beirut doctor working non-stop to treat pager blast victims
STORY: Beirut eye surgeon Elias Jrade weeps as he works around the clock treating victims of the pager explosions around Lebanon.“To be in the same situation again,” the doctor says.“It was the same scene four years ago,” he says referring to the deadly Beirut port blast in 2020. He tells Reuters: "We hope that this will be the end. I was seeing a part of Lebanon in every patient. Every patient I was trying to restore, I was trying to restore something from Lebanon."The explosions like this one in a grocery store in Beirut have left nearly 3,000 injured.On Wednesday, Lebanon’s health minister said the death toll from the blasts rose to 12, including two children.Doctors performed 400 surgeries on Tuesday alone.Jrade, who is also a member of Lebanon’s parliament, says: “My colleagues and I were in full emergency mode, we were all in the operating (room) without hesitation. We treated one patient after another, not just focusing on eye injuries, but everything, eyes, faces, hands, and anything we could do.”While the medical system is facing many challenges like the rest of Lebanon, he says it is overcoming them and doing well.Though he adds: "The fear is for what’s coming. What’s coming is big.”His work could continue at a brisk pace, as more explosions occurred around the country on Wednesday.
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The GOP's Obamacare Agenda Just Reemerged From Hiding
Here's how to interpret what Republicans have been saying about the Affordable Care Act and prescription drugs.
- Wales Online
Mum paralysed in gym when weight slipped and snapped her back
Henrietta Paxton was left with a broken and dislocated spine as a result of the accident
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1 growth stock that could skyrocket over the next 10 years
This investor is excited about the transformational potential of one growth stock that he's been eyeing up for his portfolio. The post 1 growth stock that could skyrocket over the next 10 years appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
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The charts that show the NHS should be privatised
Report after report has declared the NHS unequipped and unable to keep Britain fit and healthy.
- Manchester Evening News
She ate a loaf of bread a day
'I was completely addicted to food - food was the answer to everything'
- The Hill
Steward Health CEO pleads the Fifth ahead of contempt vote
The embattled head of Steward Health Care told lawmakers he is invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and will not comply with a congressional subpoena. In a letter sent Wednesday to the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee and shared first with The Hill, the attorney for Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre…
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The six worst foods for gut health
Your gut microbiome is as individual as your fingerprint and is something none of us should ignore if we want to lead a healthier and happier life.
- BuzzFeed
I Had An Abortion In My 40s. I'll Never Forget The Shocking Thing The Doctor Said To Me.
"I’d feel sorrow and grief but never regret."
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Pharmacies could shut early in protest over ‘chronic real-term cuts’
Pharmacies could shut early in protest over “chronic real-term cuts” as Sir Keir Starmer battles to end industrial action that has crippled the NHS.
- The Independent
Man, 27, dies weeks after receiving Covid vaccine he was wrongly invited to take by NHS
Jack Last died after having the AstraZeneca Covid jab following a ‘litany’ of errors by GP services and the NHS
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Esther Rantzen feeling 'much better' than she thought amid cancer diagnosis thanks to new drug
Dame Esther Rantzen is feeling "much better" than she thought she would be amid her terminal lung cancer diagnosis, and she is determined to give people greater end-of-life choices in the UK, even if it doesn't happen in her own lifetime.
- SWNS
"I lost my daughter, got a divorce and a cancer diagnosis - all in three years"
A mum-of-three says her world "collapsed" after losing her daughter, getting a divorce and being diagnosed with breast cancer twice, in the space of three years. Heidi Price, 53, lived an “ordinary” life with her ex-husband and three children, up until 2021. After eldest daughter Stacy, 20, took her own life, her family was left “in tatters.” In January 2023, her divorce was finalised, and she spent the next six months working out at the gym, going on dates and regaining her confidence. But in July 2023, she was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma - a non-invasive form of breast cancer.
- Manchester Evening News
Man, 27, died weeks after being incorrectly given Covid vaccine
Jack Last suffered from headaches before he died three weeks after the jab