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Children’s homes: Providers’ ‘exploitative’ profits to be curbed
Getty ImagesPlans aimed at preventing companies that run children's homes in England from making excessive profits will be set out by the government on Monday.It says it will bring forward new measures that will require large providers to disclose...
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Evidence is growing that microbes in your mouth contribute to cancer
Mounting evidence suggests that the microbes in our mouths could be putting us at risk of certain cancers, as...
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Combating Parkinson’s with rock climbing
We were amazed at what we were seeing on a sweltering summer's day, when a group of people with Parkinson's Disease began rock-climbing on the Carderock Cliffs of Maryland. Yes, rock-climbing!It's all part of their therapy, says Molly Cupka,...
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Betsi move some vascular surgeries to England after ‘incident’
Some major vascular operations will no longer be going ahead in north Wales, a health board has announced.Betsi Cadwaladr health board said it was pausing its provision of planned and emergency open abdominal aortic aneurism (AAA) surgery to help...
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What to know about Trump’s controversial pick for HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
What to know about Trump's controversial pick for HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - CBS News...
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RFK JR: Trump picks vaccine sceptic Kennedy for health secretary
Getty ImagesKennedy, who was addicted to heroin for 14 years in his youth, has also talked about wanting to help tackle America's substance abuse crisis.'We're now seeing an epidemic of addiction, alcoholism," he told the Daily Mail last year....
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Davina McCall to have surgery for rare brain tumour
Getty ImagesDavina McCall is having surgery to remove a brain tumour, she has revealed.The TV presenter, 57, posted a video on Instagram to say she had been diagnosed with a rare type of benign tumour called a colloid cyst.A...
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FDA vaccines chief hopes for common ground with RFK Jr.
The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccines official says he hopes to find common ground with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was picked Thursday by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Health and Human Services. "What I would...
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Linzixuan (Rhoda) Zhang wins 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition
Linzixuan (Rhoda) Zhang, a doctoral candidate in the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, recently won the 2024...
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Women suing over Idaho abortion ban say they felt like
Four women suing over Idaho's strict abortion ban told a judge Tuesday how excitement over their pregnancies turned to grief and fear after they learned their fetuses were not likely to survive to birth — and how they had...
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Duct-taped banana artwork auctioned for $6.2m in New York
Maurizio Cattelan's provocative artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall has fetched $6.2m (£4.9m) at Sotheby's in New...