3 h. ago Huge breakthrough for cancer which hits 8,000 Britons a year: 'Treatment could double chances of survival'

It marks the first significant change to treatment of stage 4 bladder cancer-which accounts for one in ten cases-since the 1980s.

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12 h. ago Treatment that can double bladder cancer survival rates available to 1,000 patients in England

People with disease that has spread have been found to live twice as long when given treatment hailed as ‘hopeful’More than 1,000 patients living with bladder cancer in England will be eligible for a treatment which can double survival rates from the disease.In England, 18,000 people are diagnosed with bladder cancer each year, and only about 10% of people with stage 4 bladder cancer will survive five years or more after they are diagnosed. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago New advanced bladder cancer treatment can ‘double chances of survival’

Treatment for advanced bladder cancer had not significantly changed for 40 years. Now thousands are set to benefit

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64 h. ago Scottish Government failing Lanarkshire stroke survivors according to leading charity

Figures released by Public Heath Scotland this week as part of their Scottish Stroke Improvement Programme revealed the country is falling unacceptably short of its own target of 80% of stroke patients receiving an inpatient bundle which aims to ensure the best chance of survival and recovery.

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3 d. ago Scientists 'prove' two of Jesus' miracles were real with huge breakthrough

A new study has given scientific backing to one of the oldest biblical stories of Jesus Christ, including an entire timeline of when and where it happened

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3 d. ago Scottish Government failing West Lothian stroke survivors according to leading charity

Figures released by Public Heath Scotland this week as part of their Scottish Stroke Improvement Programme revealed the country is falling unacceptably short of its own target of 80% of stroke patients receiving an inpatient bundle which aims to ensure the best chance of survival and recovery.

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4 d. ago Transfer news LIVE: Spurs make huge Eze breakthrough; Man Utd revive Baleba deal; Isak to Liverpool; Arsenal

Plenty of big moves being worked on before the summer transfer window closes

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4 d. ago Transfer news LIVE: Arsenal agree deal; huge Eze breakthrough; Man Utd make Baleba plan; Isak to Liverpool

Plenty of big moves being worked on before the summer transfer window closes

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5 d. ago Transfer news LIVE: Arsenal agree deal; huge Eze breakthrough; Man Utd suffer Baleba blow; Isak to Liverpool

Plenty of big moves being worked on before the summer transfer window closes

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5 d. ago Premier League CEO Richard Masters delivers his verdict on Leeds United, Sunderland and Burnley’s survival chances

The last two Premier League seasons have seen the three promoted clubs relegated

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6 d. ago Premier League CEO Richard Masters delivers his verdict on promoted clubs’ survival chances

The last two Premier League seasons have seen the three promoted clubs relegated

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7 d. ago Trump’s Washington DC takeover is straight out of a fascist playbook| Moustafa Bayoumi

Some 800 National Guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president: ‘our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs’A key chapter in the fascist playbook has always been to convince the public that it is living in such a state of mortal danger and unbridled chaos that the only chance of survival is to cede individual rights to the determined will of the Dear Leader. That’s why fascist leaders have constantly demanded that their populations venerate all violence performed in the service of the state and revere the apparatuses of state violence, such as police forces and the military. In this scenario, state violence is not only necessary for the nation’s survival. State violence is understood as even beautiful, something the public can and must believe in.Buying into state violence this way produces something historian Robert Paxton has called a “mobilizing passion”. In his book The Anatomy of Fascism, Paxton described how “the beauty of...

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8 d. ago Alan Shearer issues Leeds United relegation verdict as Daniel Farke fact emerges

Alan Shearer believes Leeds United have the best fighting chance of surviving in the Premier League out of the three promoted sides, although he's still not convinced they will

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1 week ago ‘I live for a chance to leave Iraq’: how I survived torture and slavery at the hands of Islamic State

A decade on from being freed, a Yazidi woman tells how she endured being abducted by militants when she was aged nineMy childhood living in a village in northern Iraq near the city of Mosul was rich in happiness despite the lack of resources. I was fond of my school and friends and enjoyed a warm family life filled with laughter. That all vanished when Islamic State forces invaded our area.When we heard of their approach [IS took control of large areas of northern Iraq and its second biggest city, Mosul, in 2014], we tried to escape but were surrounded by five IS vehicles. The men were separated and they took my father and one of my cousins and shot them in front of us. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'I tried Greggs sausage roll dipped in KFC gravy and it was a game

The brands have said the alliance followed Britons consuming 15,000 litres of KFC gravy and more than one million Greggs sausage rolls every day over the past year.

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2 w. ago Danielle Lloyd hits out at 'dangerous and false' sunscreen information amid skin cancer battle

The mother-of-five was diagnosed with melanoma in February and went under the knife to remove a mole above her collarbone earlier this year.

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2 w. ago Mum left in a coma after botched BBL 'ecstatic' over cosmetic cowboy crackdown

A mum who was only given five per cent chance of survival leaving her family devastated is 'over the moon' the Government have announced a crackdown on the cosmetic cowboys

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2 w. ago Tributes to The Walking Dead star Kelley Mack after battle with rare brain cancer

Kelley Mack, who starred in the hit zombie series, was diagnosed with a rare cancer in September

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2 w. ago Man United 'closing in' on Benjamin Sesko transfer after huge breakthrough in talks

Latest Manchester United transfer news as reports suggest Benjamin Sesko prefers a move to Old Trafford over Newcastle

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2 w. ago Terry Reid, British musician championed by the Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page and more, dies aged 75

Known as ‘Superlungs’, Reid turned down the role of frontman in Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple to focus on solo careerTerry Reid, the British musician whose soaring and soulful voice earned him the nickname “Superlungs”, and whose career intersected with the likes of the Rolling Stones and Jimmy Page, has died aged 75, as confirmed by his UK representative. He had been receiving cancer treatment in recent months.Reid never had a hit on the UK charts, but albums such as 1973’s River remain critically acclaimed, and he was held in such high esteem that he was courted by Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple to be those bands’ lead singer, but turned each of them down. Aretha Franklin stated in 1968: “There are only three things happening in England: the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and Terry Reid.” Continue reading...

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