7 h. ago Breakthrough therapy helps worst chronic low back pain sufferers feel better... and it lasts for years

Researchers in Australia are now urging other doctors to prescribe their patients the therapy, saying it could reduce symptoms of back pain for up to three years.

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9 h. ago Dear Coleen: 'I want to leave my husband for my lover but I'm scared my kids will hate me'

"I don’t want to hurt anyone, but feel if I stay in this unhappy marriage, I’ll suffer myself. Am I selfish for feeling this way? I don’t know what to do."

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4 d. ago Kim Kardashian jets to Mexico for treatment after suffering with chronic pain for years

Kim Kardashian has revealed that she flew to Mexico with her sister Khloe to undergo Muse stem cell treatment which is currently not approved in the United States

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5 d. ago Superman star Dean Cain sparks backlash after launching ICE recruitment campaign

The actor told viewers that ICE was ‘helping save America and removing the worst of the worst from America’s streets’

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7 d. ago The new talking therapy that can help reduce back pain for up to three years

Cognitive functional therapy is used to ‘address the causal mechanisms’ of chronic lower back pain

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7 d. ago Talking therapy for back pain can help patients for up to three years – study

Chronic lower back pain is a common problem.

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8 d. ago Trump’s shock new tariff move could add $80 to Scottish products sold in the USA, says Parcelhero

Despite previously announcing that the US would keep its de minimis tariff threshold until July 2027, President Trump is now set to scrap it at the end of this month. That means all goods worth $800 or less entering the US from Scotland and the rest of the UK will no longer be exempt from US tariffs, says the international delivery expert Parcelhero. However, there are two hacks that will help senders avoid the worst impact of the new duties.

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3 w. ago New test taken two weeks after starting treatment for breast cancer can tell if the disease is likely to return

The breakthrough could spare thousands of patients unnecessary therapy while allowing others to receive more intensive care sooner.

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3 w. ago Inside Taiwan’s largest ever military drill – and why it sends China a clear message

For ordinary citizens in Taiwan, a Chinese invasion is no longer just a talking point at the dinner table. As military threats from Beijing rise, the Han Kuang drills are helping the public prepare for the worst-case scenario, Arpan Rai reports

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3 w. ago Cure by Katherine Brabon review – moments of grace in meditation on chronic illness

Doubles and reflections abound in this subtle exploration of the stories we tell about sickness, centring on a mother and daughter who travel to Italy in search of healingGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailKatherine Brabon’s fourth novel follows a mother and daughter with a shared experience of chronic illness who travel to Italy in search of a cure. It feels like a companion piece to her elegant previous novel Body Friend, about three women who seek out different ways of managing their chronic pain after surgery. Cure continues Brabon’s metaphoric use of doubles, mirrors and reflections to explore the social dimensions of the body in pain. It opens in Lake Como, where, we are told, in autumn “clouds devour the hills around the lake” and the water “reflects the scene of disappearance. [It] cannot help but replicate the obscuring fog.” Vera has been here before; she is now taking her 16-year-old daughter, Thea, to a small town in Lombardy, where she herself travelled with her...

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3 w. ago Voices: ‘I was followed carriage to carriage by a burping, farting man’: This is life as a woman on the Tube

As Labour MP Stella Creasy reveals she was ‘hassled’ by a man on London Underground – and strangers had to step in to help her – Victoria Richards discovers that the worst experiences have become all too commonplace

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