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The painkillers that contain too much salt: Soluble versions of paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen put patients at 22% more risk of strokes </h1>
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<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Millions of Britons could be at risk of early death due to painkillers</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Soluble forms</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">found to have 50 per cent more salt than the safe daily limit</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Researchers behind the study now urging people to avoid the medication</span></b></li>
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<span class="article-timestamp"><strong>PUBLISHED:</strong> 23:50 GMT, 26 November 2013 </span> | <span class="article-timestamp"><strong>UPDATED:</strong> 23:56 GMT, 26 November 2013 </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Painkillers taken by millions of Britons may be causing heart attacks, strokes and early death because they contain so much salt, a major study shows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Patients who regularly take soluble forms of aspirin, paracetamol, ibuprofen and other common drugs are 22 per cent more at risk of stroke and seven times more prone to high blood pressure, the researchers found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They were also found to be 28 per cent more likely to die early.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Recommended doses of some of the painkillers were found to contain 50 per cent more salt than the safe daily limits for adults.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers behind the study, carried out by University College London and the University of Dundee, are now warning patients to avoid regularly taking soluble painkillers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">And they are urging drugs firms to print labels similar to those on food packaging on the tablets – most of which are sold over the counter – warning patients about high levels of salt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Millions of adults, particularly the elderly, rely on painkillers for long-term conditions such as arthritis, while supplements such as calcium are commonly taken by pregnant women and those going through the menopause.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Many prefer taking the soluble varieties as they are easier to swallow and are thought to get to work more quickly as they have already been broken down. But the medicines contain very high levels of salt as it helps them dissolve in water and produce a fizzing effect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">During the study, academics monitored patients who had been prescribed soluble forms of paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen as well as supplements such as vitamin D, zinc and calcium for an average of seven years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They trawled 1.29million patient records obtained from GP surgeries across the UK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Those taking the soluble pills for any length of time were 16 per cent more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke or die early. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They also found that patients were 22 per cent more likely to suffer a stroke, 28 per cent more likely to die from any cause and seven times more likely to suffer high blood pressure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">On average, patients succumbed to these problems only four years after first being prescribed the drugs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Certain painkillers were found to contain 50 per cent more salt than the safe daily limit</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Government guidelines state that adults should eat no more than six grams of salt a day. Patients taking eight soluble paracetamol pills a day – the full daily dose – exceed this amount by 50 per cent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The average adult eats about eight grams of salt a day, but experts calculate that if we all reduced that by three grams there would be 30,000 fewer heart attacks and strokes a year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">By comparison a packet of ready salted crisps contains half a gram of salt, while a packet of salt and vinegar has one gram. A bowl of cornflakes – the saltiest cereal – contains around 0.4 grams, while two slices of bread have about 0.8 grams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The worst culprits are ready meals, which can contain seven grams per portion, and some ready-made sandwiches, which contain between three and four grams.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Professor Thomas Macdonald, of the University of Dundee, said: ‘We were surprised at how much salt there was in some tablets.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Researchers behind the study are now urging people not to take soluble painkillers on a regular basis (library image)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘All the foods we buy we can find out in intricate detail how much sodium (salt) there is but we can’t do that with medicines.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He added: ‘It’s an avoidable risk and it’s a cardiovascular risk which is the commonest cause of death in Britain. If you take these drugs every day it would be better for your health to take the normal versions, not the soluble ones.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers only looked at patients prescribed the pills by their GP but they said millions of adults who buy them over the counter were also at risk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Jacob George, also from the University of Dundee, said: ‘These drugs are also available over the counter, they can be picked up in the supermarket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘We have no control over how many millions of people are buying these drugs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Heart disease, which includes heart attacks and strokes, is by far the biggest killer in Britain. It claims 180,000 lives a year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Experts pointed out that patients taking the pills occasionally were probably not damaging their health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Mike Knapton, Associate Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation, said: ‘We know that too much salt is linked to a higher risk of heart attack and stroke. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘It’s important to remember that this research applies to people who are taking these medicines every day – this does not mean that occasional use could damage your heart health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘To give us an idea of whether these risks translate for medicines bought over the counter, we would need to see further research focusing on non-prescription medication.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘This is an important reminder for doctors and patients to carefully consider the risks and benefits of soluble or effervescent (fizzing) medicines at the time of prescription.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Li Wei, an expert in statistics who specialises in drugs safety at University College London’s School of Pharmacy, was also highly involved in the study.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The mercury in fish can cause problems with nervous system development</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">It can also counteract the positive effects of omega-3 fatty acids</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Omega-3 fatty acids reduce cholesterol levels and lower the risk of some cancers, heart disease, blood pressure, stroke and premature birth</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The highest levels of mercury are in tuna, shark, marlin and swordfish </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">There are lower levels in salmon, crab, eel and kelp</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Most people believe sushi is a nutritious, low calorie meal, but new research suggests it could actually be bad for you.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A study has revealed that people who regularly eat sushi could be at an increased risk of heart disease.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers, from Rutgers University, near New York, found that eating a lot of sushi can put people in danger of exposure to dangerous levels of mercury.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">A study has revealed that people who regularly eat sushi could be at an increased risk of heart disease</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They say the fish contains methylmercury which can cause heart disease, problems with brain and nervous system development and decreased cognitive performance.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers, who published their findings in the Journal of Risk Research, also noted that methylmercury can counteract the positive effects of omega-3 fatty acids.</span><div class="relatedItemsTopBorder">
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The scientists interviewed more than 1,200 people about their consumption of sushi and other fish products.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">The fish contains methylmercury which can cause heart disease, problems with brain and nervous system development and decreased cognitive performance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They also measured the mercury levels in sushi samples from across the U.S.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They found that 92 per cent of people ate an average of five fish meals per month.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The top 10 per cent of fish eaters exceeded the World Health Organisation’s recommended safe level of methylmercury consumption.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Large tuna, such as the Atlantic Bluefin, were found to contain the highest levels of mercury.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Eel, crab, salmon and kelp all have lower levels of methylmercury.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Methylmercury can pass from a pregnant woman to her unborn child meaning the NHS recommends that mothers-to-be limit their intake of fish that are high in mercury.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The NHS recommends that pregnant woman do not eat any shark, marlin or swordfish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It also says that they should limit the amount of tuna they have to two steaks, or four medium-sized cans, a week.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The reason for this is that tuna contains high levels of mercury which can damage a baby's developing nervous system.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">By that late hour on the night of April 27, 1945, there was not one person in Germany who thought that the Nazis could still win.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Deep in his bunker, even the man who had brought such destruction to his country - indeed, to the world - knew that the war was over. As Adolf Hitler gazed at a portrait of his hero, Frederick the Great, King of Prussia and a brilliant military mind, he was certain there would be no eleventh-hour reversal of fortune. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The so-called ‘miracle weapons’ had never arrived, and his once mighty armies existed more in memory than in flesh and steel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He could allow himself to be captured by the Russians; but the humiliation was unthinkable. He could kill himself, but who could possibly replace him? A Fourth Reich would surely rise, and he would be needed to lead it. That left one option: escape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Everything had been prepared to the last detail by the shady head of the Gestapo, Heinrich Müller, right down to the clothes worn by the body doubles that would pass for the corpses of Hitler and his intended bride, Eva Braun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As his office clock struck midnight, Hitler turned to his orderly and nodded. Twenty minutes later, three figures emerged from a secret tunnel connecting the bunker to the surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Had any German citizen spotted them, he or she would have been astonished to see the Führer scuttling away like the cowards he so despised. Accompanying him were Eva Braun and her brother-in-law, Hermann Fegelein.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dodging fires and explosions, the small party made its way to the vast Hohenzollerndamm that ran through the centre of Berlin. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Once a fashionable boulevard, it was now a makeshift runway, and on it sat a Junkers-52 transport aircraft, its engines being gunned by Captain Peter Baumgart, an experienced Luftwaffe pilot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Hitler and his companions climbed aboard the aircraft, and before they could even sit down, Baumgart pushed the throttle forward. Within a minute, the plane soared into the air, heading north.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Führer refused to look out of the window, unwilling to face the hell he had left behind. He was heading to a new life — and a new world. That life, as it would be for so many other Nazis, would be in Argentina. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Hitler’s route there was tortuous, but necessarily so for the most wanted man in the world. After landing in Denmark, he flew to Spain, where General Franco supplied him with an aircraft to take him to the Canary Islands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">From there, the Führer took a submarine to the Argentine coast, where he disembarked near the small port of Necochea, some 300 miles south of Buenos Aires.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Hitler would never again set foot outside Argentina. And though his dreams of a new Reich would never be fulfilled, he did at least find some form of domestic happiness by marrying Eva Braun, with whom he had two daughters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Finally, after 17 years in hiding, one of the most evil men in history died on February 13, 1962, aged 73</span>. It was to his bitter disappointment that his old foe, Winston Churchill, had outlived him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">To most of us, such a story sounds like utter fantasy. But there are some who regard it as the absolute truth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The notion that Hitler escaped from his Berlin bunker has held conspiracy theorists in thrall since the war ended. It has now reared its improbable head once more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This weekend, it emerged that the story of Hitler’s supposed escape to Argentina has become the subject of a bitter plagiarism row.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In their book, Grey Wolf: The Escape Of Adolf Hitler, British authors Gerrard Williams and Simon Dunstan argued that the Führer escaped exactly in the manner described above, and did indeed see out his days in South America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, an Argentine journalist, Abel Basti, who comes from the Patagonian town of Bariloche, where so many Nazis ‘retired’, claims that Williams and Dunstan appropriated his research, and he is seeking compensation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Williams and Dunstan strenuously deny Basti’s accusation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Basti did in no way invent the idea of Hitler being alive in Argentina,’ says Williams. ‘Books on the subject existed as far back as 1953 and 1987. I have never plagiarised anyone’s work.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">To outsiders, the row looks like three bald men fighting over a comb. The idea that Hitler could have escaped - and kept that escape hidden - seems farcical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">And yet many continue to believe it. Tens of thousands of Nazis escaped after the war, including the notorious Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Is it not possible that Hitler escaped with them?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As Gerrard Williams says, there have been many versions of the Hitler escape story, and they have been spun ever since May 1945.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The existence of skull fragments, found by the Russians near the Fuhrer’s bunker and believed to be his, was not known to the West until 1968. Then, in 2009, DNA testing of the bones revealed that in fact they belonged to a woman.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This has given the fantasists added ammunition to claim that Hitler didn’t die in the bunker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the immediate aftermath of the war, British and U.S. intelligence services received countless reports suggesting the former Nazi leader had been spotted alive and at large.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In September 1945, it was claimed that Hitler and his private secretary, Martin Bormann, had boarded a luxury yacht in Hamburg and had sailed to a secret island off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The next month, staff at the British Legation in Copenhagen informed the Foreign Office that a Danish woman had told them that a friend had dreamed that Hitler was disguised as a monk and living in Spain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In December, the Americans were ‘reliably informed’ that Hitler had boarded a submarine off the island of Majorca, where he had been living in a hotel with a group of nuclear scientists. Then there were claims that he was living as a hermit in a cave in Italy, or working as a shepherd in the Swiss Alps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There were those who stated that he’d hidden himself in Antarctica, or even further away still — the Moon! All these reports, no matter how ridiculous, had to be taken seriously and investigated. One after the other, they were found to be groundless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Some were undoubtedly the products of a Soviet disinformation campaign. For a long time, the Russians believed that the Allies were sheltering Hitler, and they put about these fake stories in an attempt to flush out what they thought to be the truth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In July 1945, the Russian commander Marshall Georgi Zhukov claimed that since Hitler’s body had still not been found, he ‘could have flown away at the very last moment’. Even General Eisenhower, the former Allied supreme commander, appeared to be taken in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In 1952, he said: ‘We have been unable to unearth one bit of tangible evidence of Hitler’s death. Many people believe that he escaped from Berlin.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Today, the vast majority accept that Hitler shot himself in the bunker in Berlin on April 30, 1945.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">After the war, the historian and MI6 officer Hugh Trevor-Roper was commissioned to investigate Hitler’s death. He spoke to many of those who were present in the bunker during those last fateful days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They all said the same thing: Hitler had killed himself, and his body and that of Eva Braun were cremated with petrol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">If Hitler had hotfooted it to the Southern Hemisphere, then all these people would have had to have been lying - and to have kept it secret until their dying days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is simply impossible to believe that so many people could keep such a grand scale deception so quiet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But there are still some who cling to their conspiracy theories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Williams and Dunstan maintain that the ‘Hitler’ and ‘Braun’ who shot themselves in Berlin in 1945 were, in fact, lookalikes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But would those who had known Hitler intimately for years and who were in the bunker that night really have been fooled by two doubles?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In truth, the supposed escape of Hitler should be seen as nothing more than a parlour game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There’s not a serious historian who would give the story any more credence than they would to Elvis Presley being alive and well and still hip-swinging in Tennessee.</span><br />
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Hidden health risk in reading glasses: Cheap spectacles can strain the eyes and make you feel dizzy</h1>
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><b>Extreme side effects include double vision, a new study warns</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><b>Consumer group Which? tested 18 models from high street stores</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><b>Expensive £27.50 pair from Boots were no better than a £4 pair</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Picking up a pair of reading glasses on the high street probably seems like a far-sighted budget solution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But while they’re relatively cheap, ready-made glasses may come with a hidden health risk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They can potentially cause eye strain, dizziness and even double vision, according to an expert study.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Consumer champions at Which? asked an optometrist to assess 18 pairs of ready-made reading glasses bought from high street chains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The magnification was correct across all the samples. But he noted other faults in eight pairs of glasses, including some from Boots and Superdrug. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">And the faults were not confined to the cheapest. The most expensive pair cost £27.50 from Boots – but they were no better than a £4 pair from a chain called Tiger.</span><div class="relatedItemsTopBorder">
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The worst example was sold under the Clarifeye brand at Poundstretcher for £2.99. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Which? said: ‘These had three main faults. The lenses were not centred correctly, they were distorted and loose in the frame.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A Foster Grant pair which cost £18.50 at Superdrug were also incorrectly centred, as were a £27.50 pair described as Style H by Boots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A spokesman for Which? said: ‘Buying ready-made reading glasses may be easy on your wallet, but our snapshot investigation shows that some could put your eyes under too much strain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘The faults we found could cause symptoms in the wearer, from headaches to eye strain, slight dizziness and even double vision.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The consumer group said the research findings make it difficult to recommend a particular brand or retailer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rather, it said buyers should look out for glasses protected by packaging which show no evidence of dents or scratches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It said: ‘Make sure the frame is marked with industry standard markings such as CE. Ensure the frame fits comfortably and try them out. You should be able to read easily for two minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘If you buy them from an optician, ask for the lenses’ power and centre positions to be checked.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Which? also advised buying pairs which have a spring hinge and to go for plastic frames rather than cheap and thin metal, which can break.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Study showed people with too much sugar in their blood were less able to recall a list of 15 words 30 minutes after they had heard them</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Bad news if you've got a sweet tooth - eating too many sweets could make you forgetful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Researchers have found that maintaining low sugar levels in the blood is good for the brain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The study, published in the journal Neurology, showed people with too much sugar in their blood were more likely to have memory problems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Researchers looked at 141 people with an average age of 63 who did not have diabetes or pre-diabetes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Those with less sugar in their blood were more likely to score well on memory tests. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers found that people with high levels of sugar in their blood were less able to recall a list of 15 words 30 minutes after hearing them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">An increase of about seven mmol/mol of a long-term marker of glucose control called HbA1c went along with remembering two fewer words.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Agnes Floel, of Charite University Hospital in Berlin, said: ‘These results suggest even for people within the normal range of blood sugar lowering their blood sugar levels could be a promising strategy for preventing memory problems and cognitive decline as they age.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Strategies such as lowering calorie intake and increasing physical activity should be tested.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Volunteers who were overweight, who drank more than three-and-a-half servings of alcohol per day and who had memory and thinking problems were ruled out before the study started.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><b>Researchers in Mississippi examined chicken nuggets at two different fast-food chains and found that only about half of the nuggets were made of muscle meat</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><b>The rest of the nuggets were made of other chicken parts like fat, blood vessels, nerves, bones and cartilage</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">To the naked eye, a chicken nugget may seem like a relatively healthy and wholesome treat, but under the glare of a microscope the offal truth is revealed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Richard D. deShazo, a professor of medicine and pediatrics at University of Mississippi Medical Center, said that he was 'floored' and 'astounded' when he took a closer look at the make-up of the ubiquitous all-American meal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">When Dr deShazo and pathologist Steven Bigler sliced into a pair of randomly selected nuggets - bought from two different fast-foot chains - they discovered a jumble of blood vessels, fat, cartilage, but not a whole lot of actual chicken meat.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">The offal truth: When researchers placed a pair of chicken nuggets from two fast-food chains under the microscope, they discovered a concoction of blood vessels, fat, intestinal tissue, but little actual meat</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">What's in a nugget? Researchers in Mississippi examined two fast-food chains' chicken nuggets and found that half or less than half of the nuggets were made of meat. The rest was made of high-fat chicken parts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A study of the chicken from the first restaurant revealed that it was 50 per cent muscle. The other half of the nugget was made up of fat, blood vessels, nerve and epithelium tissue from birds’ cavities.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The nutritional breakdown was 56 per cent fat, 25 per cent carbs and 19 per cent protein, according to </span><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/look-inside-a-chicken-nugget/280720/" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The Atlantic.</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The nugget from the second restaurant was 40 per cent skeletal muscle, a mix of fat and connective and organ tissue, as well as bone debris. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr DeShazo compared nuggets served in some national franchises to ‘super glue’, comprised of bits of poultry leftovers mashed up with fatty ‘goo’ and fried in salty batter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The scientist insisted that calling the product 'chicken nuggets' is misleading, because they are mostly fat tissue rather than actual poultry meat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'What has happened is that some companies have chosen to use an artificial mixture of chicken parts rather than low-fat chicken white meat, batter it up and fry it and still call it chicken,' Dr deShazo said</span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-health-chickennugget-idUSBRE9930JG20131004" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"></a><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It is really a chicken by-product high in calories, salt, sugar and fat that is a very unhealthy choice. Even worse, it tastes great and kids love it and it is marketed to them.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The National Chicken Council, a non-profit group that represents America's poultry producers, has dismissed Dr deShazo's finding, arguing that nuggets are 'an excellent source of protein' - especially for children who tend to be finicky eaters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But according to Dr deShazo and healthy-eating advocate and renowned chef Jamie Oliver, that is part of the problem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">According to Oliver, America’s kids have been 'brainwashed' to such a degree that even if they know that nuggets are mostly made of goo and bone bits, they would still happily eat them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The problem is especially acute in Dr deShazo's home state of Mississippi, which has the highest rate of childhood obesity in the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">By 2030, Mississippi is projected to have the highest obesity rate at 66.7 per cent.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Ashley Peterson, a representative of the NCC, pointed out that nutritional information for most fast food chains is available online, and that anything for sale at the grocery store has a list of ingredients. </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Chicken nuggets tend to have an elevated fat content because they are breaded and fried. But it's no secret what is in a chicken nugget,' she said. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">To counter claims similar to the ones laid out in D deSahzo's study, KFC and Chick-fil-A have been running ads touting their chicken nuggets as made entirely of breast meat.</span><br />
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'My 7-year-old boy saved my life': Mother's pride after son stops her from falling into a diabetic coma by calling neighbour for help</h1>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Kieran Carroll called a neighbour when Rebecca Carroll collapsed</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">He also looked after his two-year-old brother, Layton</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Ms Carroll has had Type 1 diabetes for 15 years and collapsed when her blood sugar level suddenly plummeted</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A schoolboy has been hailed a hero after he saved his diabetic mother’s life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kieran Carroll, seven, made sure his two-year-old brother, Layton, did not panic before calling for help when his mother, Rebecca Carroll, collapsed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Ms Carroll, who has Type 1 diabetes, was at home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, with her sons when her blood sugar level plummeted causing her to collapse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Ms Carroll and her partner Mark Wood, 34, have taught Kieran what to do if he cannot wake his mother up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘We have always told him that if ever he can’t wake me, he needs to call for help,’ Ms Carroll said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I have been diabetic for 15 years and from Kieran being an early age he has seen me injecting myself on a daily basis, so I thought it was important to tell him what I am doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I also didn’t want him thinking it was something he should try.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">When Ms Carroll collapsed, Kieran took care of Layton, and led him safely across a busy road to knock on a neighbour’s door, before calling his aunt, Lindsay Smith.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘But when he knocked on the neighbour’s door, he and Layton were standing there holding hands. He was really looking after him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I’m really proud and I can’t get over how grown-up he was. He’s my hero.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘If it wasn’t for him, I might not still be here today.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The schoolboy is now set for a special treat, to thank him for his brave efforts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Ms Carroll said: ‘We told him that we will give him a treat for all that he has done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘He will get a meal at his favourite restaurant and we are going to take him on a day trip wherever he wants to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘We will be telling Layton what he needs to do in the future as well so they both know exactly what they have to do in an emergency.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘He did the right thing to get help for his mum and she must be very proud of him.’</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #990000; font-size: 1.2em;">This means that it is unable to regulate the body's blood sugar levels.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #990000; font-size: 1.2em;">When the blood sugar levels fall too low this is known as a 'hypo' - it occurs when the blood sugar level drops below four millimoles per litre.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #990000; font-size: 1.2em;">If it is not treated, it can lead to unconsciousness, coma, and eventually death.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #990000; font-size: 1.2em;">The safest way for a diabetic to avoid a hypo is to regularly check their blood sugar and to eat regularly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A type of jelly injected into the spine could help ease back pain caused by a slipped disc. The gel-like substance contains cells that repair the damaged disc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Slipped discs are usually the result of wear and tear, although they can also be caused by injury, for instance by lifting something awkwardly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The disc — these circles of jelly-like material act as cushions between the bones of the spine — then bulges or splits, pressing on the delicate nerves in the back and triggering severe pain.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: 1.2em;">Recently, scientists have suggested that the problem may occur because the cells in the centre of the disc — which are crucial for its strength and flexibility — become weakened. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A healthy disc has a strong core, called a nucleus pulposus, which holds water and allows it to absorb stresses and strains.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Causing pain: A slipped disc can occur through wear and tear as a result of a physically demanding occupation or injury when the back is overstrained</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The cells in this central part are held in place by laminin, a type of ‘sticky’ protein that acts as biological glue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Studies suggest that laminin decreases as we get older, which means the cells in the core start to spread to other areas of the disc. The spongy core becomes weaker and more brittle, and the disc is more likely to ‘slip’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Previous laboratory research on animals and humans has shown that re-implanting cells into the core of the disc can help repair damage. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But until now the problem has been that once the cells are injected, they quickly move away from the injection site because there is nothing to hold them in place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now, scientists at Duke University in the U.S. have developed a gel that contains the laminin ‘glue’ as well as cells to replace those in the core of the disc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Results from animal studies show that after one injection, the gel solution began to solidify after five minutes and was completely set at 20 minutes. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">More than 14 days after injection, the cells were still in place and the disc had become strengthened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The treatment, which would be injected into a disc by a surgeon under general anaesthetic, is due to enter human trials within the next couple of years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Commenting on the trial, Jane Tadman, of Arthritis Research UK, said: ‘This new injectable gel is certainly a less invasive procedure than common surgical treatments, which include removing the bulging portion of disc or fusing the spinal bones together.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She added: ‘It remains to be seen whether it is an improvement on current treatments — we will only know this once it has been tested in people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Our scientists are also involved in laboratory work to see if adult stem cells may be a source of cells for regenerating the intervertebral disc in the future.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Meanwhile, scientists in the U.S. say that injecting bone marrow into the discs of the back may ease pain. In a study of 22 patients with a slipped disc, doctors took some of their bone marrow — the jelly-like substance at the centre of bones — and then injected it back into the discs in their spine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Most patients showed improvement two years later. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: 1.2em;">The bone marrow is a rich source of stem cells — these have the ability to turn into a number of different cells in the body, and the team believe they may help repair cells in the damaged discs.</span><br />
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Need a boost in the gym? Drinking watermelon juice could relieve muscle soreness</h1>
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The amino acid L-citrulline in watermelon can cut an athlete’s recovery time and boost their performance</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Drinking watermelon juice can relieve muscle soreness after exercise, new research suggests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is believed that the amino acid L-citrulline, which is found in watermelon, can cut an athlete’s recovery time and boost their performance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Watermelon juice has long been popular with sportspeople but scientists have now given them an excuse to continue indulging in the summer favourite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In a report published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the researchers explained that there had already been research to show that watermelon juice had antioxidant properties and the potential to increase muscle protein and enhance athletic performance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, this was the first time that scientists had explored the effectiveness of watermelon juice that is enriched with L-citrulline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The team, led by Encarna Aguayo at the Technical University of Cartagena, in Spain, tested natural watermelon juice, watermelon juice enriched in L-citrulline, and a control drink containing no L-citrulline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Both the natural juice and the enriched juice relieved muscle soreness in the volunteers. </span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">L-citrulline in the natural juice (unpasteurised), however, seemed to be more bioavailable — in other words, it was in a form the body could better use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is believed the juice has this effect because the naturally occurring chemicals in it speed up the process of lactic acid removal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Previous research has suggested that watermelon can also help prevent heart disease by halting the build-up of harmful cholesterol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The study, by Purdue University in the U.S., found the fruit halved the rate at which 'bad' low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, accumulated in mice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">LDL is a form of cholesterol that leads to clogged arteries and heart disease.</span><br />
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How eating breakfast can cut a man's risk of a heart attack by a quarter compared to those who don't</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Skipping breakfast puts men at greater risk of a heart attack, researchers have warned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Older men who don’t bother eating after they get up are a quarter more likely to have a heart attack or die from coronary disease than those who do, they found.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers say missing a morning meal – or eating very late at night – may trigger changes in the body’s metabolism that lead to coronary heart disease.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It may affect blood sugar and hormone levels that make heart disease more likely, they say.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In a study spanning 16 years, the US researchers tracked the health of 26,902 male health professionals aged 45 to 82 and asked them to complete a series of eating questionnaires.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Altogether 1,572 men had a first-time ‘cardiac event’ during the period, according to the study reported in the medical journal Circulation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Men who skipped breakfast were found to have a 27 per cent higher risk of heart attack or death from coronary heart disease than breakfast eaters.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Even after accounting for modest differences in lifestyle, the link persisted.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The men who did not eat breakfast were younger than those who did, and were more likely to be smokers, employed full-time, unmarried, less physically active and to drink more alcohol.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Men who ate after going to bed had a 55 per cent higher coronary heart disease risk than those who didn’t, but it was a small minority of the total.</span><div class="relatedItemsTopBorder">
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lead researcher Leah Cahill, from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, said: ‘Skipping breakfast may lead to one or more risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, which may in turn lead to a heart attack over time.’ </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Victoria Taylor, of the British Heart Foundation, said: ‘In the morning rush it can be all too easy to skip breakfast, but this study suggests this could have a bigger impact on our health than we might think.’</span><br />
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When fruit and vegetables are BAD for you: Getting your five-a-day is responsible for HALF of all food poisoning cases</h1>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Fruit and vegetables cause 46% of all food poisoning cases in the U.S.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Leafy greens, like spinach and lettuce, are the most common cause because they tend to be eaten raw so bacteria are not killed</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In extreme cases, contaminated bagged salad can cause kidney failure</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Meat and poultry causes just 22% of food poisoning cases</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Fruit and vegetables are responsible for 46 per cent of food poisoning cases, recent research shows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The study by the U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that leafy vegetables, namely lettuce and spinach, are the worst offenders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It also showed that meat and poultry are responsible for 22 per cent of food poisoning cases.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The study found that every year one in six people in the U.S. fall ill with food poisoning – about nine million people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The majority of cases of foodborne illness caused by leafy vegetables are caused by pre-cut greens which are bought in plastic bags.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The reason for this is that these products tend to be eaten raw. In contrast, the bugs in meat and poultry that many people would expect to be the cause of most cases of food poisoning, are usually killed during cooking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia's Centre for Food Safety explained to </span><a href="http://modernfarmer.com/2013/07/why-lettuce-keeps-making-us-sick/" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Modern Farmer</span></a><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> that lettuce is particularly dangerous as harmful bacteria can form within the plant tissue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This means that when the lettuce is washed, the bacteria will not be washed away.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He added that <span style="color: #f6b26b;">leafy greens can cause E.Coli, salmonella, and listeria.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">These bugs tend to come from animals which carry them in their intestines. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">If the animals’ manure gets into soil or water, it can contaminate vegetables. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Salmonella is especially likely to be transmitted in this way as manure can be blown around by the wind when it dries out, and salmonella is known to be tolerant to drying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In extreme cases, contaminated bagged salad can cause fatal kidney failure, according to Dr Doyle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Doyle says that the only way to prevent lettuce-related food poisoning is to ensure that farmers are doing something to kill bacteria in the field, as soon as the leaves are picked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He believes that farmers should be using disinfectants to achieve this – he says that currently they typically use chlorine but that this is not very effective at killing bacteria.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, Dr Doyle accepts that the odds are in the consumers favour as millions of bags of salad are sold every year and the number of food poisoning cases is small.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This data is supported by a recent study from the Food Standards Agency which showed that there are 120,000 extra cases of food-related illness during a British summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Lisa Ackerley, a microbiologist, believes this is not due to undercooked meat so much as poor hand, surface, and utensil hygiene when people are cooking outside.</span><br />
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Lung cancer is no longer just a 'smokers' disease', claims leading doctor</h1>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Today, about 20% of lung cancer patients are non-smokers</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Number of smokers is falling so smoking-related cancer cases are falling</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">But number of non-smokers developing the cancer is static meaning the proportion is increasing</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Asbestos exposure and air pollution are among the possible causes</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lung cancer is no longer just a 'smokers' disease', according to a leading doctor.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Harpal Kumar said that while the number of smokers is falling, which is leading to an overall reduction in the number of those developing lung cancer, there are still a steady 6,000 people developing the disease who do not smoke.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Of those, causes of the cancer include asbestos exposure and air pollution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, yesterday a £14 million study was launched to track genetic changes that cause tumours to grow, and which allow them to become resistant to medication.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">To carry out the study, scientists will spend nine years analysing the tumours of 850 lung cancer patients to learn about the genetic variations within individual tumours, and between different patients.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Professor Charlie Swanton of Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute and University College London, who is leading the study, told The Telegraph: ‘Success in treating lung cancer has been difficult to achieve but we're hoping to change that.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The news comes shortly after it was revealed that even low level exposure to traffic fumes can increase a person’s risk of developing lung cancer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Research, published in the journal The Lancet Oncology, revealed that people’s chance of developing the disease rises with greater exposure to small sooty particles generated by diesel exhausts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer in the UK, claiming almost 35,000 lives in 2010. In the same year, 42,000 Britons were diagnosed with the disease.</span><br />
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Working up a sweat could cut your risk of a stroke by 20%</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Breaking into a sweat may be an unpleasant side-effect of the current heatwave but doing so during exercise can reduce the likelihood of a stroke, according to researchers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Scientists found that inactive people are 20 per cent more likely to experience a stroke or mini-stroke than those who exercise at a moderate or vigorous intensity – enough to work up a sweat – four times a week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Among the men in the study, only those who exercised at the same intensity four or more times a week had a lowered stroke risk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> But when it came to women, the relationship between stroke and frequency of physical activity was less clear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The study, published in the journal Stroke, looked at more than 27,000 Americans aged 45 and older who were followed for an average of 5.7 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Author of the research Doctor Michelle McDonnell, a lecturer in Health Sciences at the University of South Australia, said: ‘The stroke-lowering benefits of physical activity are related to its impact on other risk factors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Exercise reduces blood pressure, weight and diabetes. If exercise was a pill, you’d be taking one pill to treat four or five different conditions.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The research supports a previous study which found that physical inactivity is second only to high blood pressure as a risk factor for strokes. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The conclusion was based on self-reported data about the frequency of exercise, but not how long people were physically active each day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Participants were divided relatively equally between black and white and male and female, with a majority from the ‘Stroke Belt’ states in the south-east of America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr McDonnell added: ‘We can tell you how much your stroke risk improves for each cigarette you cut out or every point you reduce your blood pressure, but we still need good studies on the amount you can reduce your risk of stroke by taking up exercise.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">'Don't take vitamin pills': U.S. doctor warns that some supplements could harm health</span></h1>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dr Paul Offit, who has written a book about 'alternative medicine', says that the trend for super-strength supplements are dangerous</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">Said that multivitamin pills are unlikely to do harm but may be of no benefit</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">But pediatrician added that in certain cases, such as during pregnancy, certain supplements, such as Vitamin D, can boost health</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">Said that Apple founder Steve Jobs might be alive today if he hadn't used 'alternative therapies' as 95% of those with his cancer survive with surgery</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A U.S. doctor is has warned people against taking health supplements, saying they could pose a risk to health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Paul Offit, who has written a book called 'Do You Believe In Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine', said that very few alternative health supplements are of any benefit and could in fact carry health risks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He added that people often believe that supplements are harmless but that this simply isn't true - particularly in the case of super-strength supplements which are becoming increasingly popular.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'When you take large quantities of vitamins - 5-fold, 10-fold - greater than the [recommended daily allowance], I think the data is clear - it increases your chances of heart disease, cancer and can shorten your life,' said the doctor in an interview with <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50149140n" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">CBS This Morning.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>The doctor, who is based at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, went on to explain that he had recently seen a television advertisement that told viewers you would need to drink two gallons of orange juice to get as much Vitamin C as was in the supplement being promoted. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said that there's probably a good reason why nature doesn't provide that much Vitamin C ni one hit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The UK market for vitamins and supplements was estimated to be worth £385million last year, up 2.7 per cent on the previous year.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Offit went on to explain that he didn't think that multivitamins would do any harm however, although it is not really known whether or not they actually do any good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">When asked if he thought it was worth taking any nutritional pills, he said that there were four cases.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He recommended pregnant mothers to take folic acid to prevent babies developing spina bifida, a condition that causes the spine to become deformed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said that Vitamin D was important for babies, particularly in those who are exclusively breastfed and do not get much exposure to sunlight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Elderly women should take calsium and Vitamin D and calcium to help prevent bones thinning and he concluded that omega-3 fatty acid oils might be beneficial to heart health, but that current studies are inconclusive.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Offit also blasted the term 'alternative medicine and said: 'There's no such thing as alternative medicine - if it works it, is medicine. If it doesn't work it's not an alternative'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">When asked what his views on alternative therapies such as acupuncture were, he said that it could be helpful but not because the needles were inserted into the skin. he added that the 'ancient Chinese didn't know anything about the human anatomy'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Finally he said that Apple found Steve Jobs might be alive today if he has sought expert medical help sooner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He explained that the type of pancreatic cancer Jobs had </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">- a neuroendocrine tumour - </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">is cured in 95 per cent of patients by undergoing surgery, but that his choice of esoteric therapies including bowel cleanses and acupuncture ultimately cost him his life.</span><br />
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Ditch the hand dryer: Paper towels are MORE hygienic because they remove more germs</h1>
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Paper towels also physically remove bacteria</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Previous studies have found that dryers harbour microbes and can blast germs into atmosphere</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Scientists have worked out the best way to dry your hands – and paper towels win, erm, hands down!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It appears that paper towels not only dry hands quicker than electric driers, they are also more hygienic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">While the importance of washing hands is obvious, the benefits may be undone if they are not dried properly, experts said. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">Looks can be deceiving: Despite their reputation for being messy, hand towels are more hygienic than dryers because they physically remove germs</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His review of 12 studies found that, overall, paper towels were ‘superior’. One study found they leave hands 96 per cent dry after just ten seconds. After 15 seconds, the hands are 99 per cent dry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">By contrast, a drier takes at least 45 seconds. The amount of time is important because most people spend only a few seconds on drying their hands. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One study found men spend 17 seconds using hot-air driers and women 13.3 seconds – a fraction of the time needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">By contrast, air driers may blow them on to the body – a concern in public toilets, where regular flushing of cisterns disperses germs in the air.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This can increase the number of germs by an astonishing 255 per cent,' said Keith Redway, senior academic in Microbiology and Molecular Biology at Westminster University.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; font-size: 1.2em;">Bacteria are then blown on to the hands of users and into the atmosphere.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; font-size: 1.2em;">This leads to the potential for the spread of organisms such as salmonella and E. coli, as people often dry their hands before cleaning them properly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the Mayo Clinic Proceedings journal, Dr Huang, of the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, said: ‘There is a risk of persons standing at air driers acquiring the bacteria dispersed in the air current towards them.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Although antibacterial washes are essential in high-risk environments such as hospitals and beneficial on cruise ships and on planes, they are not necessary in daily life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Previous studies have shown that hand dryers are often contaminated by bacteria in the outlet nozzle and the heat from the dryer is the perfect temperature to encourage their growth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Keith Redway's research has shown that disposable paper towels remove 58 per cent of bugs and cotton roller-towels 45 per cent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The message has to be to wash and then dry your hands thoroughly, using paper towels, not the hot-air dryers, explained Redway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Want your memory to stay sharp in old age? Eat less red meat and more oily fish </span></h1>
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">A Mediterranean diet high in omega-3 fatty acids can help preserve memory and thinking abilities </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">People who more closely followed a Mediterranean diet had a 19 per cent reduced risk of mental impairment</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Oily fish, flax seed, walnuts and pulses are known to benefit the brain and nervous system</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A Mediterranean diet low in red meat and dairy food and high in omega-3 fatty acids can help preserve memory and thinking abilities, say researchers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Scientists in the U.S. studied the diets of 17,478 people with an average age of 64.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Participants were given tests that measured mental ability over an average of four years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">During the course of the study, seven per cent developed memory and thinking deficits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The study found people who more closely followed a Mediterranean diet had a 19 per cent reduced risk of mental impairment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A key element of the Mediterranean diet is omega-3 fatty acids, found in oily fish, flax seed, walnuts and pulses, which are known to benefit the brain and nervous system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The diet typically also contains high levels of fresh fruit and vegetables and low levels of saturated fat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The findings are published in the latest issue of the journal Neurology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lead researcher Dr Georgios Tsivgoulis, from the universities of Alabama in the US and Athens in Greece, said: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Since there are no definitive treatments for most dementing illnesses, modifiable activities, such as diet, that may delay the onset of symptoms of dementia are very important.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Diet is an important modifiable activity that could help in preserving cognitive functioning in late life. However, it is only one of several important lifestyle activities that might play a role in late-life mental functioning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Exercise, avoiding obesity, not smoking cigarettes and taking medications for conditions like diabetes and hypertension are also important.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Other recent research found that eating a Mediterranean-style diet can cut heart attacks, strokes and death rates in people at high risk of heart disease by as much as a third.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Changing the balance of foods in a diet can lessen the risk even before heart-related illness strikes, according to a major clinical trial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Previous studies have compared the effects of the diet on people after they have suffered a heart attack or stroke – with many showing improved heart health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But this research, published online by the New England Journal of Medicine, was the first to rigorously test the effects on a high-risk group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In fact, the study of around 7,500 people was halted early, after almost five years, because the results were so clear it would have been unethical not to recommend the diet to all those taking part.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most office KITCHENS are dirtier than the toilets, with kettles and microwaves the germiest places</span></h1>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Half of kitchen surfaces are contaminated with dangerous levels of coliforms - bacteria in faeces</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">These bacteria can cause gastrointestinal diseases</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">25 per cent of draining boards, 30 per cent of microwaves, 40 per cent of kettles also contaminated</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Workplace kitchens are dangerously dirty, to the point that they could cause illness, new research suggests. </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A study has revealed that half of surfaces in workplace kitchens are contaminated by dangerously high levels of coliforms – the bacteria present in faeces which can lead to outbreaks of gastrointestinal disease.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It also showed that more than a quarter of draining boards were found to have four times the safe level of coliforms.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Half of surfaces in workplace kitchens are contaminated by dangerously high levels of coliforms - the bacteria present in faeces which can lead to outbreaks of gastrointestinal disease</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The research also revealed that the handles of shared fridge-freezers were bacteria-rife, with a third carrying high levels of coliforms, whilst 30 per cent of shared microwaves were also shown to be contaminated around the handles and buttons. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tea drinkers are not any more hygienic – more than 40 per cent of kettle handles were revealed to be contaminated with higher levels of bacteria than are found on toilet doors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Overall, the swab results, </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">carried out by Initial Washroom Hygiene,</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> showed that 75 per cent of kitchen work surfaces are home to more bacteria than an average feminine sanitary bin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Peter Barratt, Technical Manager at Initial Hygiene, said: ‘Shared office kitchens can be very busy areas with a heavy footfall, making this space a potential hazard for cross-contamination when good hygiene practices and hand washing aren’t encouraged. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘As workers prepare their lunches on the kitchen surfaces, it’s vital to ensure these surfaces are sanitised on a regular basis and that, as a minimum, towel dispensers, soap, and hand or surface sanitizers are available to mitigate the risks. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The survey revealed that the handles of shared fridge-freezers were bacteria-rife, with a third carrying high levels of coliforms, whilst 30 per cent of shared microwaves were also shown to be contaminated</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Regular hand washing with soap and water has been proven to reduce the risk of the spreading of pathogens, and will help to ensure the workforce remains fit and healthy.’</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">To conduct the research Initial took 280 samples from 70 kitchen appliances in eight offices.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The news comes just after it was revealed that one sick person can infect half of an office’s commonly touched surfaces by lunchtime.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Scientists at the University of Arizona discovered that telephones, desktops, table tops, doorknobs, photocopier and lift buttons, and the office fridges are all rapidly contaminated by an ailing worker.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However the study also revealed that simple interventions, such as hand washing and the use of hand sanitizer or wipes, can drastically reduce employees' risk of infection.</span><br />
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Antarctic ice is melting TEN TIMES faster than it was 600 years ago</h1>
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"> Experts found the most rapid melt occurred in the past 50 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Tests carried out on </span><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"> ice core on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"> Temperatures up by 1.6 degrees Celsius over 600 years, they found</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Summer ice is melting 10 times faster in the Antarctic than it was 600 years ago, with the most rapid melt occurring in the past 50 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Researchers from the Australian National University and the British Antarctic Survey also discovered the ice melt i</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">s at its highest level in 1,000 years.</span><br />
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'<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It's definitely evidence that the climate and the environment is changing in this part of Antarctica,' lead researcher Nerilie Abram said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Abram and her team drilled a 364-metre (</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">1,194 feet</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">) deep ice core on James Ross Island, near the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, to measure historical temperatures and compare them with summer ice melt levels in the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Visible layers in the ice core show periods when summer snow on the ice cap thawed and then refroze.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They found that, while the temperatures have gradually increased by 1.6 degrees Celsius (2.9 degrees Fahrenheit) over 600 years, the rate of ice melting has been most intense over the past 50 years.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Experts said the stronger ice melts are likely to be responsible for faster glacier ice loss and some of the dramatic collapses from the Antarctic ice shelf over the past 50 years</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey have produced the most detailed map yet of Antarctica¿s landmass, showing a landscape of mountain ranges and plains cut by gorges and valleys much deeper than previously seen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">That shows the ice melt can increase dramatically in climate terms once temperatures hit a tipping point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This is the first time it has been demonstrated that levels of ice melt on the Antarctic Peninsula have been particularly sensitive to increasing temperature during the 20th Century. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey have produced the most detailed map yet of Antarctica’s landmass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> Bedmap2 shows a landscape of mountain ranges and plains cut by gorges and valleys much deeper than previously seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In addition, the map allows scientists to analyse, in much greater detail, the bed below the Antarctic ice sheet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The map reveals the volume of ice in Antarctica is 4.6 per cent greater than previously thought and that the the mean bed depth at 95 metres, is 60 metres lower than estimated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The volume of ice that is grounded with a bed below sea level is also 23 per cent greater than originally thought meaning there is a larger volume of ice that is susceptible to rapid melting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It also reveals the ice that rests just below sea level is vulnerable to warming from ocean currents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The new deepest point, under Byrd Glacier, is around 400 metres deeper than the previously identified deepest point. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Once your climate is at that level where it is starting to go above zero degrees, the amount of melt that will happen is very sensitive to any further increase in temperature you may have,' Abram said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Robert Mulvaney, from the British Antarctic Survey, said the stronger ice melts are likely responsible for faster glacier ice loss and some of the dramatic collapses from the Antarctic ice shelf over the past 50 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Their research was published in the Nature Geoscience journal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In other parts of Antarctica, such as the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the picture is more complex and it is not yet clear that the levels of recent ice melt and glacier loss are exceptional or caused by human-driven climate changes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Abram concludes: '</span>T<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">his new ice core record shows that even small changes in temperature can result in large increases in the amount of melting in places where summer temperatures are near to 0°C, such as along the Antarctic Peninsula, and this has import'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Abram is an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow.</span><br />
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Heartbreak after little boy who longed to meet his baby sister dies from rare genetic disorder just FOUR DAYS before she is born</h1>
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold;">Archie Watson, 2, had a Tay-Sachs, a disorder that causes nerve cells to die</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold;">Died last Monday in children's hospice after singing his favourite songs </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold;">His sister Matilda Rose arrived on Friday, weighing 7lb 8oz</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold;">Parents Bradley and Lauren believe he is now Matilda's guardian angel </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A two-year-old boy who longed to be alive for the birth of his sister has lost his battle to a rare genetic disorder just four days before her arrival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Archie Watson died last Monday after suffering from Tay-Sachs, which causes deterioration of nerve cells, mental and physical abilities and a maximum life expectancy of four years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now his parents, Bradley, 34 and Lauren, 27, believe he is watching over their newborn, Matilda Rose, as her guardian angel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Archie was suffering from Tay-Sachs, a rare but fatal genetic condition that causes derioration of nerve cells and a maximum life expectancy of four years</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Watson, from South Wales, said: 'Matilda has a guardian angel now in Archie, who will be there for her. I know it sounds strange, but we honestly believe it - that she will carry on where he left off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We wanted him to be here when she was born, but he was poorly and hung on for as long as possible. He is not suffering any more.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Archie, who was diagnosed in December 2011, died at Ty Hafan Children's Hospice, after singing his favourite Sesame Street songs and watching a starlight projector.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His death resulted in Lauren, who was due to give birth on April 7, deciding to be induced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She didn't want to miss the celebration of his life, which they are having instead of a funeral.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Matilda Rose arrived on Friday afternoon, weighing 7lbs 8oz.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At nine months, Archie stopped developing properly, had trouble walking and began having seizures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Watson</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> said: 'We could have wallowed in despair, closed the curtains and counted down the days. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But, we threw the curtains open and got much good out of something so bad.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'After he was diagnosed, we had a "no tears at Christmas" policy. We didn't want regrets and to look back having wasted two years we had with Archie.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The little boy's life was crammed with as much fun as possible from trips to Euro Disney and Wembley, as well as being a mascot for the Cardiff Blues rugby team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Watson, w</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">ho works for an insurance broker in Cardiff, told his local paper that the couple had first realised there was something wrong with Archie when he started having fits at the age of nine months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He told the said: 'Archie suddenly started having a lot of seizures. Then, just before Christmas, he had some blood tests and brain scans and it was found that he had a deficiency of a protein which helps the nervous system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We thought is might be cerebral palsy or something similar, but we did not realise it would be terminal.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Then, after Archie developed pneumonia, the family feared he wouldn't make it to Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His parents and</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> brother Jack, 10, said goodbye every day of the final four weeks they spent at Ty Hafan and had a birthday for each of the 30 months Archie lived.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Watson</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> said</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">: 'He fought until there was nothing left in him. He was hoping to meet his sister, but it wasn't meant to be. His legacy will live on and he will keep inspiring people.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His story has touched the hearts of thousands of people through postings on social networking sites as he bravely fought the terminal illness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Through sky dives, marathons and other fundraisers, family and friends have already raised £23,000 for Caerphilly Children's Centre, Ty Hafan and Cure and Action for Tay-Sachs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TAY-SACHS: A CRUEL GENETIC DISORDER THAT STRIKES YOUNG </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #93c47d; color: black; font-size: 1.2em;">Tay-Sachs disease is a rare and usually fatal genetic disorder that causes progressive damage to the nervous system.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #93c47d; color: black; font-size: 1.2em;">In the most common form of the condition, symptoms usually begin at around five months of age, when a previously normal child’s development begins to slow and they gradually lose their ability to move. Other symptoms can include muscle stiffness and fits. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #93c47d; color: black; font-size: 1.2em;">The first noticeable symptom is usually that a baby is excessively surprised and startled by noises, such as people clapping their hands or a telephone ringing. A red spot may also appear near the centre of each of their eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #93c47d; color: black; font-size: 1.2em;">Babies with the condition will also be much slower in reaching developmental milestones, such as gripping objects and learning to crawl. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #93c47d; color: black; font-size: 1.2em;">Tay-Sachs disease is caused by a genetic mutation. This happens when the instructions that are found in all living cells become 'scrambled' in some way, causing one or more processes of the body not to work properly.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #93c47d; color: black; font-size: 1.2em;">In Tay-Sachs disease, a genetic mutation known as the HEXA mutation results in the body not producing an enzyme called Hexosaminidase-A (Hex-A). Without this enzyme, a fatty substance called ganglioside builds up in the cells of the nervous system, causing them to stop working normally, eventually killing them.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #93c47d;">SOURCE: NHS Choices</span> </span></span></div>
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Father died on hospital bathroom floor after junior doctor failed to give him life-saving drugs</h1>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Edward McKean, 52, had undergone surgery to remove benign brain tumour </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Died of a blood clot in the pulmonary artery </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">at University Hospital Coventry</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Had not received vital blood-thinning drugs which could have saved him</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Inquest heard junior doctor missed the drugs off his medication chart</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">'Neglect' contributed to death and doctors missed opportunities to save him</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A father-of-three died on the bathroom floor of a hospital after a junior doctor left life-saving drugs off his medication chart, an inquest has heard.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Medics failed to realise Edward McKean, 52, was not receiving vital blood-thinning drugs for six days after he underwent brain surgery to remove a benign tumour.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: 1.2em;">Mr McKean did not receive the drugs - designed to reduce the risk of blood clots - because a junior doctor missed them off his treatment chart when she copied it up.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: 1.2em;">As a result, a clot formed in Mr McKean’s leg, broke free, and blocked an artery, causing a fatal pulmonary embolism - a blood clot in the pulmonary artery - as he walked to the bathroom.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A post-mortem examination found he had already suffered a smaller embolism which could have alerted doctors to their mistake and saved his life.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: 1.2em;">A coroner ruled that doctors and nurses missed numerous opportunities to spot their mistake and said ‘neglect’ had been a contributing factor to his death.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">An inquest at Coventry Magistrates Court on Friday heard that the keen walker’s life could probably have been saved if the mistake had been picked up.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr McKean had surgery to correct a rare tumour in his nasal cavity and skull at University Hospital Coventry, in Walsgrave, on April 3 last year.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He initially received the anti-coagulant medication after the opeation but stopped receiving it following the error.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The contracts manager, from Solihull, West Midlands, died as he walked to the bathroom on April 22, almost three weeks after his operation.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr McKean’s partner, Susan Rickards, told the inquest she had ‘fought for a year’ to stop the tragedy being ‘swept under the carpet’.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Describing the moment she learned of his death, she told the inquest: ‘The hospital rang me at five in the morning and told me there was an emergency, so I shot up there.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I thought if he saw I was calm it would help him to keep calm.</span><div class="relatedItemsTopBorder">
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I thought he might have broken his arm or leg, but when I got to the ward they told me he was gone.’</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Consultant neurosurgeon Hussien El-Maghraby admitted the mistake should have been detected sooner.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said: ‘What is serious is that it was not picked up for six days.’</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr El-Maghraby added that when he learned what had happened, he sent an email to the hospital’s chief executive.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Deputy coroner Louise Hunt asked him: ‘On a scale of one to ten, how serious would you say these collective failings were?’</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He replied: ‘Very serious, ten out of ten.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘That’s what made me send an email.’</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The inquest heard the hospital had since improved ward rounds and made other changes to minimise the risk of a similar tragedy.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Ruling that neglect had contributed to Mr McKean’s death, Ms Hunt asked the hospital to send her written confirmation that it had implemented measures to prevent similar mistakes occurring again.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Mike Iredale, deputy medical director, apologised to the family for the ‘unimaginable distress and grief’ the hospital had caused them.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He accepted serious mistakes were made and promised the hospital would continue to improve its procedures.</span><br />
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Energy drinks can cause high blood pressure and fatal heart problems </h1>
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold;">Study of young people found the drinks may increase blood pressure and disturb the heart's natural rhythm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold;">People who already have high blood pressure or heart problems should 'use caution' before consuming them</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Energy drinks may cause high blood pressure and potentially lethal heart problems, new research has found. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Doctors are warning people with high blood pressure to 'use caution and judgment' before downing the drinks, after finding they may increase blood pressure and disturb the heart's natural rhythm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">American researchers analysed data from seven previously published studies to determine how consuming energy drinks might impact heart health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The pooled studies included healthy patients, aged 18 to 45.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the first part of the pooled analysis, the researchers examine</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">d the QT interval - a segment of the heart's rhythm - of 93 people who had just consumed one to three cans of energy drinks. </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They found that the QT interval was 10 milliseconds longer for those who had consumed the energy drinks. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The QT interval describes a segment of the heart's rhythm on an electrocardiogram; when prolonged, it can cause serious irregular heartbeats or sudden cardiac death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lead author Doctor Sachin Shah, assistant professor at University of the Pacific in the United States, said: 'Doctors are generally concerned if patients experience an additional 30 milliseconds in their QT interval from baseline. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'QT prolongation is associated with life-threatening arrhythmias. The finding that energy drinks could prolong the QT, in light of the reports of sudden cardiac death, warrants further investigation.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers also found that the systolic blood pressure, the top number in a blood pressure reading, increased an average of 3.5 points in a pool of 132 participants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Shah added: 'The correlation between energy drinks and increased systolic blood pressure is convincing and concerning, and more studies are needed to assess the impact on the heart rhythm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Patients with high blood pressures or long QT syndrome should use caution and judgment before consuming an energy drink.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: 1.2em;">'Since energy drinks also contain caffeine, people who do not normally drink much caffeine might have an exaggerated increase in blood pressure.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">'<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">People with health concerns or those who are older might have more heart-related side effects from energy drinks.'</span></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The findings were presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention conference.</span><br />
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Processed meat 'is to blame for one in 30 deaths': Scientists say a rasher of cheap bacon a day is harmful</h1>
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Analysis of diets of 500,000 linked meat to cancer and heart disease deaths</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Should be '</span><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">limit of no more than 20g a day of processed meat', equal to one rasher of cheap bacon or </span><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">one full English breakfast a week</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Meals containing too much processed meat such as cheap ham, bacon and sausages could send you to an early grave, a large-scale study has found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Analysis of the diets and medical history of almost half a million men and women linked processed meat to deaths from cancer and heart disease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Europe-wide research, including work by Oxbridge scientists, found that processed meat is to blame for about one in 30 deaths. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers suggested a limit of no more than 20g a day of processed meat – equal to one rasher of cheap bacon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Processed meat, made by combining the leftover parts of animals which cannot be sold as good cuts such as steaks and joints, contains high concentrations of fat, including artery-clogging cholesterol. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers from ten European countries quizzed almost 450,000 people, many of them Britons, and tracked their health for an average of 13 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They said: ‘Men and women with a high consumption of processed meat are at increased risk of early death, particularly due to cardiovascular diseases but also cancer.’ </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Some 26,344 of the participants died over the course of the study, with those who ate the biggest amounts of processed meat being 44 per cent more likely to have died than those who ate the lowest amounts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The figures for heart disease were striking – those who ate the most processed meat, more than 160g or three sausages a day, were 72 per cent more likely to die of heart disease. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A study last year found that eating 50g of processed meat a day – the equivalent of one sausage or three rashers of bacon – raises the likelihood of cancer by a fifth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But in the latest, much bigger study, those who ate the most processed meat were almost 50 per cent more likely to suffer an early death, with heart disease the overwhelming cause. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The study, published in the journal BMC Medicine, concluded that a limit of 20g a day of processed meat – equal to a rasher of bacon or one full English breakfast a week – would prevent about 20,000 early deaths in the UK each year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tracy Parker, a dietician at the British Heart Foundation, said: ‘With spring in the air, many of us may be looking forward to sunny barbecues. But this research suggests processed meat, such as sausages and burgers, may be linked to an increased risk of early death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘However, the people who ate the most processed meat in this study also made other unhealthy lifestyle choices. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘They were found to eat less fruit and vegetables and were more likely to smoke, which may have had an impact on results.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Professor Karol Sikora, one of Britain’s leading cancer specialists and an unpaid member of the industry-backed Meat Advisory Panel, said <span style="color: #ffd966;"><strong>the key to good health is a balanced diet.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said: ‘Don’t worry about having a bacon sandwich. It is not going to kill you. But don’t have four bacon sandwiches every day for your whole life.’</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: 1.2em;">The amount of white meat eaten, such as chicken, was not linked to death rates by the researchers, while small amounts of red meat appeared beneficial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University, London, said: 'This study is yet another little plank going into the edifice saying we've got to down on [processed] meat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This is what we're saying, let's lower the amount of animals we are producing. We need to reduce the cattle culture in this country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The key issue is we don't know what a good diet is, we've had dietary guidelines based on a very narrow based idea of what is nutrition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'For me, this study is another reminder of the need to go for a more sustainable diet.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A Department of Health spokesman said: 'It's important that everyone eats a balanced diet. Eating well and being active can help prevent serious illnesses such as cancer and heart disease later in life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: 1.2em;">'Red meat can be part of a balanced diet. But people who eat a lot of red and processed meat should consider cutting down as regularly eating a lot could increase your risk of bowel cancer. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'For tips on how to eat well and be more active, visit the Change4Life website.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A university professor died of lung cancer aged 37 after doctors repeatedly dismissed her illness as 'purely psychological'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lisa Smirl, 37, saw three different doctors with a range of symptoms over a year-long period but they were dismissed as anxiety and depression.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">By the time cancer was finally diagnosed it had spread throughout her body and was terminal.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Smirl, who was married to a medical doctor and lived in Leeds and Brighton, kept a heartbreaking online blog about her treatment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Misdiagnosis: Despite Lisa Smirl seeing three doctors with symptoms, her lung cancer was repeatedly written off as 'anxiety and depression'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Shortly after her diagnosis, she wrote: 'How is it possible that a 36-year-old, health [obsessed] conscious, occasionally social smoking, middle class, fiance of a doctor can develop metastatic lung cancer unnoticed. How?!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">What the consultant told us was that not only was it the c-word, but that it was everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'My brain, my bones, my liver. While in some ways this was a terrible surprise, in another it was a huge relief. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'For the last year I'd been battling a range of bizarre and seemingly disparate symptoms that had forced me in September 2011 to go on sick leave from my job as a lecturer (assistant professor).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The diagnosis at the time was anxiety and/or depression. And while I was both anxious and depressed, this was due to the increasingly disabling symptoms that my doctor kept insisting were purely psychological.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'So I was actually grateful for a medical diagnosis that confirmed there were objective, physical reasons behind my illness.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Cambridge-educated </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Smirl, who was originally from Canada, wrote how she first experienced shortness of breath and wheezing in late 2010, which was wrongly diagnosed as asthma.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Not psychological: Lisa Smirl said in her blog she was relieved to have a concrete diagnosis even though it was of cancer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In spring 2011, she was referred to a physiotherapist for shoulder and arm pain and started experiencing 'visual migraines' - losing her vision for half an hour - in June.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">By September 2011, Dr Smirl was so sick she was forced to leave work, having been diagnosed with depression and anxiety and put on anti-depressants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But despite a dramatic weight loss, she claimed three different family doctors refused to consider her symptoms in connection with each other.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Relief: Dr Smirl wrote a blog on her diagnosis, saying she was 'actually grateful' for a medical diagnosis that confirmed there were 'objective, physical reasons' behind her symptoms</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She wrote: 'Still, despite my pleas, and a dramatic weight loss, none of my doctors (and I saw three different family practitioners) would consider my symptoms in conjunction with one another - insisting that they were all common, unrelated problems (migraines, asthma, depression, back pain).'</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In November 2011, she misread her asthma prescription and took ten times the recommended amount - but the drug made no difference to a violent cough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Her doctor finally sent her for a routine X-ray and within hours, she was given the devastating news that she had cancer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">On her blog, called Stage V - as stage IV of cancer is considered terminal - she describes her journey from 'a woman diagnosed with "anxiety" to one with metastatic cancer'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Smirl wrote: 'I can't prove it, and this is just my opinion, but I have no doubt in my own mind that my misdiagnosis was in large part due to the fact that I was a middle aged female and that my male doctors were preconceived towards a psychological rather than a physiological diagnosis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It is so easy to say that someone's symptoms are "anxiety" related if they are a little bit complicated, unclear or unusual. Don't repeat my mistakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'You know when something is wrong. Find another doctor that you connect with and who takes your concerns seriously. Get referrals. Get tested. Refuse to be dismissed.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Smirl worked in the global studies department at the University of Sussex between 2009 and 2012, but took early retirement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Despite battling the disease, she maintained an honorary lectureship in the department until her death on February 21.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She also completed a Great North Run to raise funds for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation in November 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Professor Richard Black, head of the school of global studies at the University of Sussex, led tributes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said: 'Lisa was a fantastic colleague and friend, a great teacher and researcher and truly inspirational in the way she dealt with her illness.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Professor Justin Rosenberg, head of international relations, added: 'Lisa was an outstanding colleague who shared her intellectual and personal vivacity with academics and students alike.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">West Sussex PCT and the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust were unable to confirm that they were involved with Lisa's treatment.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Middle-aged people who are optimistic were found to have better levels of 'good' cholesterol</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Also had lower levels of triglycerides, the fatty molecules involved in hardening of the arteries</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> People with a sunny disposition are less likely to have high cholesterol, new research suggests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Middle-aged optimists were found to have better levels of 'good' cholesterol, which has a protective effect on the heart and helps cancel out 'bad' cholesterol. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They also had </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> lower levels of triglycerides, the fatty molecules involved in hardening of the arteries, said the researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Be Happy: Middle-aged people who are optimistic were found to have better levels of 'good' cholesterol, which has a protective effect on the heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Part of the reason may be due to the </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">optimists' tendency to have a healthy body weight and a 'prudent' diet, say the researchers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">analysed data from the Midlife in the United States study, which included phone interviews and lab tests for 990 people aged 40 to 70.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">People with higher optimism scores also had more high-density lipoprotein (HDL) - the desirable form of cholesterol that is believed to protect against heart disease. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">For every increase of five points on the optimism scale, HDL in the blood increased by one milligram per deciliter.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">That same HDL increase would translated to a three per cent reduction in the risk for heart disease, the researchers said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">For comparison, regular exercise can decrease heart disease risk by six per cent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But there was </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">no connection between optimism and total cholesterol levels, or to low-density lipoproteins (LDL), the bad' cholesterol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lead study author </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Julia Boeh said: 'It is one additional piece of evidence suggesting that our psychological health and physical health are intertwined, and that viewing the world optimistically may have some tangible benefits for our health.' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Previous research by Boehm and her colleagues had shown a link between optimism and lowered heart attack risk, so they decided to look at whether there was an independent connection between optimistic or pessimistic outlooks and cholesterol, which is known to play a role in heart attack risk.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Franz Messerli, a cardiologist at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York, who was not involved in the study, said: 'I</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">t's still impossible to say whether optimism causes a change in cholesterol, or cholesterol influences outlook, or both are subject to some third variable.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Harvard researchers </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">did try to account for other influences, and when they factored in lifestyles, including diet and alcohol consumption, and body weight - the link between optimism and blood fats became weaker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">That suggests that optimists' tendency to have healthier lifestyles and weight may explain 'in part' the differences in their blood lipids, researchers said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Conversely, the risk of heart attack and stroke goes up in depressed people, Messerli said. 'But nobody has shown the opposite, that all of a sudden if you go from a pessimist to an optimist your risk goes down.'</span><br />
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