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Thomas says he was close to ending his life a few months ago. He has been receiving mental health care for five years, but he’s been told his treatment will stop on his 18th birthday. This is a common problem for young people in the UK. According to a leading expert, thousands of young people […]

Image copyright Getty Images A diet endorsed by US pop singer Beyoncé “could be dangerous,” the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine has told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme. Subscribers to the 22-day plan pay $14 (£11.50) to access plant-based recipes. But nutritionist Daniel O’Shaughnessy says the diet could lead to “nutritional deficiencies”. Beyoncé’s

Image copyright Kerry Image caption Kerry has muscular dystrophy and spent 10 years trying to organise cervical screening Women with physical disabilities often have to fight to access cervical screening, with some denied it altogether, a charity is warning. Some said they hadn’t had smear tests for years because hoists were unavailable and testing at

Expanding access to a promising but costly treatment, Medicare said Wednesday it will cover for some blood cancers a breakthrough gene therapy that revs up a patient’s own immune cells to destroy malignancies. Officials said Medicare will cover CAR-T cell therapies for certain types of lymphoma and leukemia. The cost of the treatments can run

Last week, Netflix added a few dozen movies, including “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Jackie Brown.” This week, it adds only two movies ― and you’ve probably never heard of them before. The Alex Rodriguez-centric sports documentary “Screwball” and the children’s movie “Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer” join on Tuesday and Thursday,

An increase in U.S. women using pot during pregnancy has prompted new government-funded research aiming to resolve questions about whether it might harm the fetus and lead to brain damage. One of the studies is at the University of Washington in Seattle. Researchers there are enrolling women who are already using pot early in pregnancy.

If You Love Le Labo’s Santal 33 Fragrance, Try These Affordable Dupes Instead | HuffPost Life There is no fragrance like Le Labo’s Santal 33. While perhaps not talked about today as often as it was in 2015 ― when The New York Times called it the “perfume you smell everywhere” ― its staying power

The vast majority of American adults don’t eat enough fruits or veggies, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only 12 percent eat enough fruit (between one and a half and two cups per day) and less than 10 percent eat enough vegetables (between two and three cups per day). Health experts want

On May 8, the biggest players in the American debt collection business traveled to Philadelphia to have a talk with Kathy Kraninger, the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  A day earlier, Kraninger’s agency had introduced a slate of regulations ostensibly designed to curb the worst abuses in the notoriously predatory world of

Figuring out if you have a sleep disorder versus poor pre-sleep habits (commonly referred to as your sleep hygiene) is a bit of a “chicken or the egg” type of situation. Are you not sleeping well because you have poor sleep hygiene? Or do you have a sleep disorder that then causes you to stay