Health
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Letters: Buying the 10 items one needs to eat every day would be expensive as well as a logistical nightmare
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Exclusive: 802 schools, nurseries and colleges are in areas where levels of nitrogen dioxide breach EU legal limits
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Collaboration with Europe is crucial to future breakthroughs, say cancer experts including Nobel prize winner Sir Paul Nurse
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A review of World Health Organisation classifications is a chance to put an end to trans people being pathologised
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Obesity Health Alliance calls for food and drink makers to cut ‘hidden’ sugar to curb dangerous obesity among young people
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Letters: Doctors expect a lot of themselves, but if demands pile up and become unrelenting, the ability to adapt well has neurobiological limits
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A veg (or five) too far: why 10 portions a day is way too much to ask
Kathleen KerridgeIn an ideal world, doubling our fruit and vegetable intake is a good idea. But in austerity Britain, it would be impossible to afford all that, let alone cook it -
She arrived at A&E in a desperate state. I held her for ages while she sobbed. What happened later made it all worthwhile
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BMA warns of impending ‘disaster’ as its research shows 40% of doctors who qualified in EEA may leave because they feel less welcome
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Scientists say even just 2.5 portions daily can lower chance of heart disease, stroke, cancer and premature death
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Health experts are watching the progress of the tax to see if it will lower the rates of obesity-related diseases and type 2 diabetes
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Letters: Exaggerating the number of children in the UK who live with an alcoholic parent is unhelpful
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Should an oncologist step in when a patient wants alternative treatment? Sometimes the gift of autonomy is the only thing left
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Report by health thinktank criticises telephone service, which it says sends people to A&E or calls an ambulance out too often
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Inspectors discovered seafood past its expiry date and food stored without temperature controls, says Which? survey
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One-off examination, being introduced across NHS, was able to prevent 35% of bowel cancers overall and 40% of deaths
Doctors don’t have to sugar the obesity pill