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Nurse’s request for premature baby sleeves is viral hit

Image copyright Catherine McConville Image caption Nurse Catherine McConville is astounded by how many people volunteered to help her When paediatric nurse Catherine McConville asked for help to create hand-made knitted sleeves for babies in her hospital neo-natal unit, she never expected thousands of people across the world to volunteer. Mrs McConville, who works at […]

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Italy seeks to calm fears in Europe as cases, deaths rise

ROME — Italy sought to rally international support for its virus containment efforts Wednesday even as its caseload reached 400, people linked to Italy fell ill across Europe and as far away as Brazil, and the U.N.’s health agency urged a scaled-up response. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte’s government appealed to European neighbors for cooperation, not

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Coronavirus: Outbreak spreads in Europe from Italy

Image copyright AFP Image caption Cases have emerged for the first time in countries such as Austria following the Italian outbreak Several European countries have announced their first coronavirus cases, all apparently linked to the growing outbreak in Italy. Austria, Croatia, Greece and Switzerland said the cases involved people who had been to Italy, as

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ADHD Can Be Debilitating At Work. Here’s How To Make It Better.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a condition characterized by attention difficulty and impulsiveness, wasn’t widely understood or even recognized until fairly recently. It wasn’t until the early 2000s that clinicians began focusing on ADHD symptoms in not only children, but adults as well. Now, it’s one of the fastest growing mental health diagnoses — about 4.4%

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Germany overturns ban on professionally assisted suicide

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Under assisted dying, a doctor does not administer the medication but provides it (file pic) A five-year-old law banning professionally assisted suicide has been rejected as unconstitutional by Germany’s top court. The court backed complaints by a group of terminally ill patients and doctors who challenged the law that

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