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From meat-free burgers to sausage rolls, vegan foods are growing in popularity. One in six food products launched in the UK in 2018 claimed to be vegan or free of animal ingredients – more than in any other country, according to market research company Mintel. A range of new offerings, and the involvement of big […]

Salma Hayek has many thoughts about the often indescribable experience of being a parent. The actor and her husband, François-Henri Pinault, welcomed their daughter, Valentina, in 2007. Since becoming a mother, she has opened up about her parenting journey in several interviews. In honor of her birthday, here are 13 quotes about motherhood from Hayek.

A tree surgeon who was paralysed from the chest down when a big oak rolled over him is back in the tree tops. Callum Kilby from Alton, Hampshire, had just felled the tree when it rolled over and a branch struck his helmet, he landed awkwardly, shattering two of his discs in the middle of

Babies in the east of England are being screened for a virus which can cause development defects, including deafness. Carriers of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) often have no symptoms but it can be passed from mother to baby during pregnancy and affects about 1,000 newborns in the UK each year. A 100-strong team of NHS staff led

Image copyright PA Image caption The trust said it was formally informed about the worker’s TB infection by Public Health England in June A hospital has written to 349 patients and 129 staff over suspected contact with a healthcare worker with tuberculosis (TB), it has emerged. The letters gave helpline details to the patients treated

Image caption Richard Selley is preparing to travel to Switzerland later this week to end his life Eleven terminally-ill people in Scotland every week are suffering in pain as they die, according to a new report by a group campaigning for assisted death to be legalised. Dignity in Dying said even with high levels of

Image copyright Getty Images More pharmacies in England will start offering people free, on-the-spot heart check-ups from next month. Shoppers would have their blood pressure and cholesterol tested. The programme, which could expand to every pharmacy in England, should prevent up to 150,000 heart attacks and strokes within a decade, say experts. It is part

A chemistry professor is working with dentists in Yorkshire to cut down on the amount of single-use plastic used during appointments. Tony Ryan, a professor of polymer chemistry at the University of Sheffield, has worked with plastics all his life and is leading a research project looking at how dentists could make better use of

Image copyright Getty Images The Teenage Cancer Trust wants the HPV vaccine programme to be extended to older boys and young men. Strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) are linked to the majority of cervical cancer cases as well as oral, throat and anal cancers. Teenage girls have been able to get the HPV jab

Image copyright Press Association The number of mental health incidents dealt with by police has risen by more than a quarter in four years, figures obtained by BBC Radio 5 Live show. While there were 385,206 incidents flagged as mental health-related in 2014, in 2018 that figure was 494,159, a rise of 28%. Police chiefs