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HPV vaccine prevents 90% of cervical cancer cases
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THE HPV jab is cutting cases of cervical cancer by 90 per cent, a new study has found. Scientists say the disease, ...
I took super-strength painkillers for 25 years and was still in such agony that I could barely walk. Finally stopping them has changed my life
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Twenty five years of ‘oblivion’ is how Sean Jennings describes the quarter of a century he spent swallowing a daily cocktail of ...
Return of masks and three-week isolation for infected schoolkids as whooping cough outbreak sweeps UK
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GP SURGERIES are asking patients to wear masks while infected schoolkids will need to isolate for three weeks, as the UK faces ...
The ‘red flag’ symptom of bladder cancer women need to know about – which GPs often wrongly dismiss as a menopause side effect or urine infection
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The ‘red-flag’ warning signs of bladder cancer are often being missed by GPs and wrongly dismissed as urine infections, menopause symptoms and ...
From craving crisps to wine o’clock…what the food and drink you fancy tells you about your body
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IT’S 11am and you are already thinking about a chocolate bar with your tea. At 3pm, you are crying out for some ...
I can never have sex again after my gruelling cancer treatment…now I’m training to be a doctor to help overcome taboos
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Ellie Waters-Barnes, 23, is a medical student and lives in Stoke-on-Trent. Here she tells her story and how the cancer diagnosis and ...
Growing numbers of patients are being left disfigured or disabled after taking Ozempic – and the NHS faces a £100 million-a-year bill to deal with problems like ‘melted candle’ skin
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Top plastic surgeons are reporting a surge in patients seeking nip-and-tucks after rapidly losing weight on slimming jab Ozempic – and they ...
Man, 23, who blamed ‘drinking too much’ for headaches left paralysed down one side of his body
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A man who was left paralysed down the right side of his body due to a brain tumour has learnt to walk ...
My baby girl was 2 days old and I was planning my own funeral after my ‘dry cough’ was dismissed as ‘normal’
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A MUM revealed she planned her own funeral just days after giving birth – after her severe heart failure was dismissed as ...