Image copyright Beth Hewitt Image caption Beth Hewitt was eventually diagnosed with stage one bowel cancer and had the tumour removed in April A “super-fit” 35-year-old woman told by her GP that blood in her stools was caused by piles later found she had bowel cancer. After eight months “back and forth” to the surgery […]
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When it comes to fraud, the stereotype of the bumbling, overly trusting senior who hands their savings over to a Nigerian prince is just that: a stereotype. Millennials are a generation of digital natives who grew up with computers, smart devices and the internet in their homes and schools. But that doesn’t mean younger millennials
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America’s vaping industry has in recent years taken its fight to fend off regulation directly to President Donald Trump’s doorstep, with a lobbying group twice booking annual meetings at his Washington hotel and e-cigarette maker Juul hiring two of his former White House officials. In 2017 and 2018, the Vapor Technology Association met at Trump’s
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Image copyright Karim Brohi Image caption Prof Karim Brohi has been the London Trauma System’s clinical director since 2014 Every 75 minutes, someone in London is admitted to hospital with traumatic injuries, according to the capital’s ambulance service. In a week-long diary for the BBC, the London Trauma System’s clinical director describes the moment he
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Awkwafina is delicious. So is Larry Itliong, a legendary West Coast Filipino American labor organizer ― or at least they are in cookie form. Awkwafina and Itliong are just two of the Asian American heroes that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, baker Jasmine Cho has paid homage to by way of a butter cookie. Cho runs Yummyholic, a
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A Wisconsin operation that manufactured thousands of vaping cartridges a day may have been packing them with far more THC oil than the packaging claimed, authorities said Wednesday. The revelation Wednesday from the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office underscores warnings that people who buy vaping products on the street don’t know what they’re getting. Officials are
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Unhealthy lifestyles remain a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes The number of new cases of type 2 diabetes could be stabilising, or even falling, a study suggests. The analysis looked at 47 studies from the mid-1960s up to 2014, mainly from the US and Canada and countries
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In the early days of your romantic relationship, you may have felt magnetically drawn to your partner. The conversations were stimulating, their little quirks made them even more endearing, and you just couldn’t keep your hands off each other. But to assume you can easily sustain those feelings year after year is wishful thinking. “In
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A tentative settlement announced Wednesday over the role Purdue Pharma played in the nation’s opioid addiction crisis falls short of the far-reaching national settlement the OxyContin maker had been seeking for months, with litigation sure to continue against the company and the family that owns it. The agreement with about half the states and attorneys
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Image copyright Getty Images Two-fifths (40%) of patients on UK hospital wards get no visitors, say the NHS nurses who care for them. The Royal Voluntary Service charity commissioned a poll of 200 nurses working in acute hospitals in Britain. As well as being socially isolating, having no visitor to help with the “small” things,
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