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Mo Farah urges against possible £120m cut to school sports in England
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Mo Farah urges against possible £120m cut to school sports in England

Athlete and sport bodies call for rethink after health and education departments each propose £60m funding cutsMo Farah and more than 70 leading UK sporting bodies have demanded the government rethink...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Doctors’ union drops opposition to Cass review of NHS gender healthcare
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Doctors’ union drops opposition to Cass review of NHS gender healthcare

British Medical Association says review into gender identity services was ‘robust’ after previously rejecting findingsThe trade union representing doctors across the UK has dropped its opposition to t...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Parents in Wales urged to ‘be vigilant’ about hand-washing amid hepatitis A outbreak
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Parents in Wales urged to ‘be vigilant’ about hand-washing amid hepatitis A outbreak

At least three households in Barry, south Wales, identified as having contracted the liver infectionHealth authorities have asked parents and carers to be “vigilant with their children’s hand-washing”...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Britons on hantavirus-hit ship to be asked to isolate back in UK for 45 days
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Britons on hantavirus-hit ship to be asked to isolate back in UK for 45 days

Two British nationals who left MV Hondius before outbreak was detected are already self-isolating at home, say officialsWhat is hantavirus?British passengers onboard a cruise ship hit with a deadly ou...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Watch: Passengers told virus-hit ship 'not infectious' after first death
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Watch: Passengers told virus-hit ship 'not infectious' after first death

YouTuber Ruhi Çenet was on board the ship, and filmed the announcement made on 12 April.

BBC News - UK4 months ago
Cook more at home to reduce ultra-processed food intake, say cardiologist groups
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Cook more at home to reduce ultra-processed food intake, say cardiologist groups

‘Clinical consensus statement’ also urges heart doctors to advise patients to not eat late at night, and chew slowlyWant to reduce your intake of ultra-processed food? If so, cook at home more often,...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Three evacuated from hantavirus-hit ship as Spain says vessel can dock
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Three evacuated from hantavirus-hit ship as Spain says vessel can dock

British guide Martin Anstee among those evacuated from MV Hondius, which is now heading for Canary IslandsExplainer: What is hantavirus?Three people with suspected hantavirus have been medically evacu...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
British ex-police officer evacuated from cruise ship isolating in hospital with hantavirus
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British ex-police officer evacuated from cruise ship isolating in hospital with hantavirus

A British hantavirus patient has told Sky News he is isolating in hospital after being evacuated from the cruise ship at the centre of the outbreak.

Sky News - UK4 months ago
Bonnie Tyler recovering after being taken to hospital for surgery
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Bonnie Tyler recovering after being taken to hospital for surgery

The Total Eclipse of the Heart singer is being treated in Faro, Portugal, where she has a home.

BBC Entertainment & Arts4 months ago
Parents told to check children's handwashing after hepatitis A outbreak
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Parents told to check children's handwashing after hepatitis A outbreak

An outbreak of hepatitis A in south Wales has led a health body to warn parents to be "vigilant" over their children's handwashing.

Sky News - UK4 months ago
Billie Eilish says she does ‘everything I can’ to suppress Tourette syndrome tics
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Billie Eilish says she does ‘everything I can’ to suppress Tourette syndrome tics

US singer-songwriter talks about huge effort of controlling her behaviour, in interview with Amy PoehlerBillie Eilish has said she is “doing everything I can” to suppress her Tourette syndrome.The sin...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Lacunar strokes caused by widening of arteries in brain, study suggests
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Lacunar strokes caused by widening of arteries in brain, study suggests

Finding would explain why type of stroke affecting about 35,000 a year in UK is not as responsive to some medicationThe cause of a type of stroke that affects about 35,000 people across the UK each ye...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Cruise passengers tell of life on board stranded ship after hantavirus outbreak
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Cruise passengers tell of life on board stranded ship after hantavirus outbreak

While passengers onboard the MV Hondius say the situation is calm, they face days at sea as officials warn the disease may have spread.

BBC News - UK4 months ago
Opera singer who hid deafness for 30 years hails ‘life-changing’ surgery
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Opera singer who hid deafness for 30 years hails ‘life-changing’ surgery

Janine Roebuck, from London, says she no longer considers herself deaf after double cochlear implants restored hearingAn opera singer who hid her deafness for more than 30 years has described “life-ch...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Rare pregnancy complication has put UK women into ‘emergency surgery’
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Rare pregnancy complication has put UK women into ‘emergency surgery’

Scores of women have told how they were affected by placenta accreta spectrum for an awareness campaignWomen have had to undergo major emergency surgery, including a hysterectomy, when medical staff f...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Black people in England twice as likely to suffer stroke as white counterparts
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Black people in England twice as likely to suffer stroke as white counterparts

In-depth study also reveals patients from black African and Caribbean backgrounds are less likely to receive timely carePeople from black backgrounds in England are twice as likely to experience strok...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Details revealed of Kate's first overseas royal trip since cancer treatment
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Details revealed of Kate's first overseas royal trip since cancer treatment

The Princess of Wales is to return to international travel next week in her first overseas royal visit since her cancer treatment.

Sky News - UK4 months ago
Mental health services discharged Nottingham killer because they 'couldn't find him'
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Mental health services discharged Nottingham killer because they 'couldn't find him'

Nottingham attacker Valdo Calocane was discharged from mental health services because they couldn't find him - just months before he killed three people. 

Sky News - UK4 months ago
Single dose of magic mushroom psychedelic can cause anatomical brain changes, study finds
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Single dose of magic mushroom psychedelic can cause anatomical brain changes, study finds

Participants took 25mg of psilocybin, reporting deeper psychological insight and better wellbeing a month laterA single dose of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can induce anatomi...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Slow Alzheimer’s diagnoses ‘mean UK patients missing out on experimental treatments’
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Slow Alzheimer’s diagnoses ‘mean UK patients missing out on experimental treatments’

Alzheimer’s Research UK says patients at risk of being left behind as lack of formal or accurate diagnoses closes door to trialsPeople with Alzheimer’s disease are missing out on experimental treatmen...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago