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Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water sources for 6 million people

The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.

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Private baby scan clinics ‘putting expectant mothers at risk’

Some high-street clinics are risking lives by letting untrained staff do baby scans, warn experts.

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Traitors star is ‘grateful for abnormal anatomy’

A very rare condition led to an important diagnosis after years of pain for The Traitors star.

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Thousands of poorest Scots to receive free weight-loss jabs in trial

Up to 5,000 people in Scotland will take the injections as part of a multi-million pound study being led by Glasgow University.

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At 21, I was crushed by a stranger’s joke about going bald. Then the way I looked at myself changed

There are multiple ways for men to combat hair loss now, but should they have to?

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At 21, I was crushed by a stranger’s joke about going bald. Then the way I looked at myself changed

There are multiple ways for men to combat hair loss now, but should they have to?

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At 21, I was crushed by a stranger’s joke about going bald. Then the way I looked at myself changed

There are multiple ways for men to combat hair loss now, but should they have to?

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Medics got me through cancer but they can’t help with my menopause

When Kat Denisi was diagnosed with breast cancer at 32 she was put into a medically induced menopause.

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‘My child won’t walk again after failed surgery’

Cambridge University Hospitals says it "should not have happened" and changes are being made.

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Long A&E waits causing heartbreaking suffering, charity says

Patients are dying in corridors and others left for hours in soiled clothes, says Age UK.

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