88 minutes ago Makeup, floss and hair dye use in pregnancy leads to more PFAS in breast milk – study

‘Forever chemicals’ pose health threat to developing children and linked with preterm birth, shorter lactationHigher usage of personal care products among pregnant or nursing women leads to higher levels of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in their blood and breast milk, new research shows, presenting a serious health threat to developing children.The new study helps connect the dots among previous papers that have found concerning levels of PFAS in personal care products, umbilical cord blood, breast milk and shown health risks for developing children. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Pregnant Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby rushed to hospital with 'stomach pains'

The pregnant TV star has been hospitalised just days after armed robbers broke into her Sunderland home

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3 hours ago Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby hospitalised following horror 'machete' home invasion

The Geordie Shore star was in the home with her two-year-old Alba when masked thieves broke in

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3 hours ago Charlotte Crosby hospitalised as she speaks out after horror armed break

Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby has broken her silence after armed thieves broke into her home and said she is struggling to come to terms with the incident

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4 hours ago Signed Beatles photo and Sex Pistols lyrics go under the hammer for eye

The sheet had previously been displayed at Cleveland’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame from 1996 to 2000, and was exhibited at London’s Hospital Exhibition in 2004 and Manchester’s Urbis exhibition.

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4 hours ago Charlotte Crosby breaks silence after horror burglary and reveals she's been hospitalised

Charlotte Crosby, 34, shared an update with her fans after four robbers armed with a machete broke into her home while she was upstairs with her two-year-old daughter Alba

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5 hours ago Stacey Solomon 'yearning' for another child despite 'hectic' home life

Stacey Solomon recently congratulated friend Sophie Hinchliffe after she announced she was pregnant, it has prompted insiders to suggest the former I'm A Celeb star could be keen on baby six.

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5 hours ago ‘The very thought of it repelled me’: how a skiing accident left me unable to read

After suffering a head injury, I found I was unable to read without headaches, eye strain and wild mood swings – and that my condition was far from rareIn the Palazzo Pitti in Florence hangs a painting by Raphael of the Renaissance humanist, poet, scholar, orator and prelate Tommaso Inghirami. He’s pictured at his desk, garbed almost entirely in red, in a typical pose of contemplation, gazing upwards, but look closely at his right eye and you will notice something amiss: there is too much white, as if his eyeball were a shelled egg, its minute pupil dabbed as an afterthought. Inghirami lived with strabismus – a misalignment of the eyes, possibly caused by his fall from a mule – and his right eye is almost turned to look behind him, lizard-like. Were one to trace...

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10 hours ago Tim Dowling: our house looks like its animal inhabitants have taken over

The behaviour of the two dogs, the cat and the tortoise isn’t making a particularly good impression on our visitorsThere are mornings when I walk into the kitchen to find two dogs, a cat and a tortoise all looking up at me, and think: how did I let this happen?But mostly I’m used to it, to the eight staring, expectant eyes, and to the extra level of chaos a second dog brings to proceedings. I crunch my way across the room in bare feet, stepping on the remains of whatever items the new dog has recently chewed to fragments: plastic flower pots brought in from the garden, a quantity of unravelled rush matting, some cardboard that may well have been part of this morning’s mail. Continue reading...

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