Health
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English social care system for elderly facing 'complete collapse'Age UK report calls for urgent action, including cash injection in spring budget and development of long-term plan
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Footballers could be at risk of dementia from blows to the head, study suggestsFindings show potential link between repeated sub-concussive head impacts and degenerative disease, although no clear link to football established
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TV ad showing Santa with dementia 'not too upsetting for children'Advertising Standards Authority rules Alzheimer’s Research UK Christmas TV campaign was sensitively handled
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Inadequate sex education creating 'health time bomb'‘Shockingly high’ numbers of STI diagnoses prompt councils to call for compulsory sex education in UK secondary schools
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Weight gain over adult life linked to greater digestive cancer risk, says studyStudy finds strong link between weight gain from age 20 and increased risk of oesophageal and stomach cancer, both of which have very poor survival rates
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NHS needs £9.5bn upfront to secure its future, says BMA‘Nowhere near the funding required’ despite huge crisis unfolding in service that already can’t cope, say doctors
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Half of GPs unaware of drug's use in cancer prevention – studyCharity says worrying number of family doctors not offering at-risk patients preventive breast cancer drug tamoxifen
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Nearly £150,000 raised for children of couple who died of cancerLuke, 21, Hannah, 18, and Oliver Bennet, 13, ‘overwhelmed’ by support from donors after parents died within hours of each other last week
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Kenya's health system on the verge of collapse as doctors' strike grinds onMass walkout over reneged 2013 deal on boosting pay and staffing has left patients untreated and medical union leaders in jail
Government urged to stop property tax hikes for 1,249 NHS hospitals