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All The Shoes To Shop During Zappos’ 20th Birthday Sale

HuffPost may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. As if your summer calendar wasn’t already full of barbecues and birthday parties, there’s one more celebration worth noting. Zappos is celebrating its 20th birthday, and is marking the occasion with a massive sale on top-selling shoes from sneakers to sandals to […]

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‘I had chemo for breast cancer that never existed’

A woman who underwent a double mastectomy after doctors wrongly diagnosed her with an aggressive form of cancer has said the trauma will remain with her. Sarah Boyle, 28, had chemotherapy and later needed reconstructive surgery before the mistake was noticed. She told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she had been left with post-traumatic stress disorder

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Contaminated blood inquiry: Karisa Jones speaks of ‘nightmare’ diagnosis

Image copyright Infected Blood Inquiry Image caption Karisa Jones lost her husband Geraint in 2012 – six months after his diagnosis. She was also infected with hepatitis C Welsh victims of the contaminated blood scandal have started giving evidence to a public inquiry. Karisa Jones’s husband Geraint was given infected blood in a transfusion in

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Tafida Raqeeb: Parents’ bid to get daughter treated goes to High Court

Image copyright Family Handout Image caption Tafida Raqeeb’s mother said her daughter was “completely healthy” before her sudden brain injury A family’s fight to take their ill daughter to Italy for treatment will be heard at the High Court in September. Royal London Hospital doctors said there was no hope Tafida Raqeeb, five, would recover

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‘How I got to medical school via A&E and the chicken shop’

Image copyright King’s College London Image caption Medical student Yousef El Tawil once thought school was a waste of time “You’d see people getting stabbed. You’d see people getting robbed for their belongings.” In 2010, aged 14, Yousef El Tawil, felt “swept into a vortex of pessimism”. At the end of Year 9, instead of

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Contaminated blood inquiry: Welsh Government urged to take lead

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJennifer Hutchinson was diagnosed with hepatitis C, 34 years after receiving contaminated blood A lawyer representing dozens of victims of the contaminated blood scandal has urged the Welsh Government to take the lead in helping them. At least 300 victims from Wales were left with chronic or

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