A new variant of Covid-19 is on the rise, according to scientists. The XEC strain started in Europe but has now spread across the globe, with research suggesting it is transmitted more easily than previous types. Researchers say it is a recombinant variant – meaning it is created from two …
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How can Boots Online Doctor help me? Boots Online Doctor offers services across sexual health, contraception, acne and skin, women’s health and men’s health, as well as contraception and home testing. Most of these services are available to anyone in the UK over 18. Some have upper age limits, while …
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To passers-by, the tucked-away land off Dering Way and Shamrock Road could be anything. But just down from a small industrial estate sits Denton Caravan site, run by Gravesham Borough Council and home to eight Roma and Traveller families. Denton Caravan site off Dering Way and Shamrock Road in Gravesend …
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“Sometimes we’d be lost without them.” The NHS today has a terrifying number of plates to spin, all while facing enough challenges and workloads that would make Sisyphus run for cover. So when Adele Turner, an advance practitioner of blood transfusion at Lincoln County Hospital, says this about the Lincolnshire …
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UK Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting took to the pages of the right-wing Sun newspaper to make his latest attack on National Health Service (NHS) workers and double down on his demands for privatisation. The Sun headlined with, “NHS NEEDS REFORM: Wes Streeting warns NHS that there’ll be no additional …
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Into the first week in October and the temperatures are surprisingly quite warm after the hottest September on record. As ever, here are seven weekly stories in Gloucestershire where we have a range of stories from all six parts of our county. This week the overwhelming news Gloucestershire Live has …
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Plymouth people who are sick or injured can benefit from special treatments at the newly opened Plymouth Oxygen Centre. The family-owned business, located in Stonehouse, offers accessible and affordable hyperbaric oxygen treatments. Bogdan and Cristina Buflea, who run the business, say the treatments have been proven to help speed up …
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A woman is running the London Marathon on Sunday (April 20) for her ex-boyfriend who has been diagnosed with cancer. She admitted she left him because she couldn’t cope with his diagnosis but is now keen to raise money for his cause. Danielle Epstein, 32, said she: ”felt like the …
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A commando who underwent five operations on his spine has told how he can finally play football again with his kids after a medical cannabis prescription ended years of crippling back pain. Rik Swaine, 40s, from Wales, suffers from a chronic inflammatory arthritis called Ankylosing Spondylitis which was aggravated by …
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It’s a different kind of junk mail. UK men now can package and send their semen to see if they can father children. British health technology company Jack Fertility recently debuted its postal fertility test, deemed the first of its kind in the area. Shy guys can collect their own …
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